Evil Dead: The Game sold over 500,000 copies in its first five days

In the first five days, the multiplayer cooperative action game Evil Dead: The Game, which was developed by Saber Interactive, sold over 500,000 copies.

The project based on the popular franchise offers to get used to the role of heroes from different eras. Among them are Ash, Kelly Maxwell, Pablo Simon Bolivar, Annie Knowby, Scotty and Lord Arthur. Together as a team of four survivors, they must exorcise the Kandarian demon. Or you can go from a different angle to become a demon, hunting for survivors.

Originally scheduled for a 2021 release, Evil Dead: The Game was first delayed to February 2022 for polish and to add singleplayer, then again to May. As Saber said at the time, "This delay gives our team the time they need to get things just right, so your boomstick will be polished, fully loaded, and ready to blast Deadites on that Friday the 13th of May." It seems to have paid off, and Evil Dead has been better-received than Saber Interactive's previous licensed co-op zombie shooter, World War Z.

While four players—who can be characters from across the movie series and TV show or just different versions of Ash—co-operate to achieve their objectives, a fifth player hunts them as a demon. (Any of the roles can also be filled by AI.) The more spooked the survivors are, the more susceptible they are to the demon's attacks, which include possessing one of them to attack the rest.

Evil Dead: The Game is out on PC, PlayStation and Xbox. The Nintendo Switch version has been delayed indefinitely.