If you couldn’t watch Terrifier, now you can play Terrifier

So this is a thing.

Terrifier: The ARTcade Game is out tomorrow on Steam, and even on the Nintendo Switch. It’s a sidescrolling beat-’em-up — I think that’s what you call them — where you play Art the Clown, the sadistic Chaplin-esque killer from Damien Leone’s Grand Guignol horror movies. Leone’s trilogy starts out disgustingly effective, but gets increasingly lore-obssessed and commercially successful as it progresses. For various reasons, I don’t recommend them to anyone but the serious horror aficianado. As for this ARTcade Game, the developer, Relovo, has a history of itch.io releases that implies they might actually know what they’re doing! Could this unseat indie darling Absolum and perhaps upstage the December 1st release of Marvel: Cosmic Invasion? Will we one day get an Art the Clown kart racer? And will Art the Clown plushies be all the rage this Christmas?