The Texas Chain Saw Massacre video game on the way from Gun Interactive and Sumo Nottingham

Gun Interactive and Sumo Nottingham are teaming up on an official Texas Chain Saw Massacre video game.

Based on the 1974 horror film, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre will be an asymmetrical multiplayer horror game – an area Gun Interactive has experience in having published Friday the 13th: The Game.

“The original Texas Chain Saw Massacre sent shockwaves through the film industry when it was released in 1974,” said Ronnie Hobbs, Creative Director at Gun Interactive.

“It was violent, gruesome, and downright uncomfortable to watch at times. It was a masterpiece in dread. As a young boy hiding in my basement secretly witnessing this terror unfold, I was both horrified and intrigued. Watching Sally, Kirk, Jerry, Pam, and Franklin try to survive the Slaughter family’s deranged combination of horror and comedy was unlike anything I’d witnessed before. It was at that moment I became a lifelong Texas Chain Saw Massacre fan, and to this day it’s always been a dream of mine to work on the franchise.

“Now, nearly 50 years after the films’ release, the fact that myself, along with my colleagues at Gun Interactive and Sumo Digital Nottingham, are tasked with creating a proper video game based on The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is surreal to say the least. This will be the first licensed game since 1983. And for a whole new generation, it will be their entry into the horror and macabre that left an impression on me so many years ago. To say this is an honour would be an understatement.”

Check out the trailer for the game below: