Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game

Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game might not be perfect, but fans of the genre or series (or looking to confront their fear of clowns) should check it out.

It’s only a matter of time before IllFonic perfects the asymmetrical multiplayer experience. Say what you will about its previous games; each one offered entertaining tweaks to the formula, small yet clever innovations, and a seemingly better understanding of what makes this genre so compelling. Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game embodies all these aspects, making it one of IllFonic’s best a...

An asymmetrical horror experience that's varied, albeit slightly awkward to maneuver around, and different enough mechanically to stand out from the multiplayer crowd, asymmetrical or otherwise.

Killer Klowns from Outer Space is a strange choice for an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game, but it works. It's fun playing as either a human or a Klown here, with just enough twists on the tried-and-tested formula to keep matches unpredictable and interesting. There's still a little work to be done when it comes to balancing, however.

Illfonic is no stranger to making interesting games based on popular movies, and Killer Klowns is just the latest success in the studio's run.

With this one simple inclusion, Killer Klowns eliminates the most boring thing about the average asymmetric survival game: dying too early. If a survivor is eliminated or escapes alone in DBD, they've nothing left to do but twiddle their thumbs, waiting until the game ends. In Killer Klowns, players can actually keep themselves busy even after dying or extracting. The microgames are cute enough, b...

Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game takes a good premise from a bad movie and makes it into a mediocre game.

Killer Klowns is a faithful adaptation, but nostalgia cannot compensate for lacking features that other asymmetrical horrors do better.

At this point, it feels like every horror franchise of note has been made into an asymmetric multiplayer game or, at the very least, been fed to the genre-dominating beast that is Dead by Daylight. Perhaps because of this, IllFonic (a studio that’s tackled the likes of Friday the 13th, Predator, and Ghostbusters in the past) has had to dig pretty deep for their latest, dredging up Killer Klowns fr...

The 1980s were a wild time, especially when it came to cinema. Filmmakers got to play around with some truly bizarre concepts, like time-traveling killer cyborgs (The Terminator), vampires posing as punk rock teenagers (The Lost Boys), and a world where humans and cartoons coexist (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) Not to mention the hilarious notion that Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito could be tw...

Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game is not going to convert anyone that isn't already a fan of these types of games, and honestly, there are better, more polished versions of this already out there. Hardcore fans of the Killer Klowns movie will get the most out of the game adaptation, and it's hard to recommend it to anyone else, really. The game has its moments, but it's unlikely to keep mos...