Ahead of the game’s upcoming release this Friday, the development team behind Evil Dead: The Game has shared a video in which they answer some of the community’s burning questions. One of which is what kind of options the game will offer players who’ve had about enough of online multiplayer, and it seems like there’s good news for them.
In the latest community Q&A video, Saber Interactive’s Creative Director Jason O’Connell and other members of the Evil Dead: The Game dev team answered questions from three of their favourite community YouTube channels. You can check out the video in full right here.
Amongst other things, the team addressed issues around player roles, replayability, game lore and options for single-player modes. Towards the end of the video, YouTuber Laphin asked whether or not the game will have bots for single-player mode in 1v4, outside of the normal single-player missions.
Saber Interactive’s Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits provided a pretty encouraging answer to this, confirming that a key driver behind the gameplay modes in Evil Dead: The Game was the desire to give players as many options as possible for ways to experience the game.
You can play the core experience as a survivor with survivor AI controlled bots, for lack of a better word, and then against an AI-controlled demon. Or if you just have like, you and your friends who just want to kick deadite ass together and you don’t want to get on the internet and get beaten by a 12 year old playing the demon, you can totally just play as survivors against a computer-controlled demon.
Tim Willits, Chief Creative Officer, Saber Interactive
It was less clear as to whether or not players can play against bots in this mode when they’re playing as the Kandarian demon, but it sounds as if this may well be the case. Fans don’t have too much longer to wait to test this theory out though. Evil Dead: The Game is set to launch on Xbox Series S/X, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and PC this Friday, with a version for Nintendo Switch said to be coming soon.
