Evil Is Back

A remote cabin, a forbidden book, and a rapidly worsening weekend set the stage for a compact first-person horror shooter that proudly leans into splatter, camp, and 1980s B-movie excess. Evil Is Back retells the familiar story of friends unleashing deadite-style horrors after reading from an ancient text, trading subtle dread for grotesque monsters and deliberately trashy horror energy. The mood is knowingly low-budget rather than polished or serious, with a short-film feel that suits its frantic, pulpy premise. Expect blood, ugly creatures, and a cabin-in-the-woods nightmare built for fans of cult midnight movies.

Most of the brief adventure revolves around moving through enclosed locations, searching for a way forward, and blasting or carving apart anything that attacks. A sawed-off shotgun handles threats at range, while the chainsaw delivers the game’s clearest horror-comedy fantasy: turning a mutilated hand into a weapon and getting close enough to use it. Combat mixes simple shooter action with survival pressure, so ammunition and enemy encounters matter more than in a pure shooting gallery. Progress also asks players to solve a handful of straightforward environmental puzzles, breaking up the monster encounters without turning the experience into an elaborate adventure game.

Its biggest strength is commitment to a very specific kind of horror fandom. Visuals aim for the rough, exaggerated look of old genre films rather than modern realism, and the first-person perspective keeps the tiny cabin spaces tense when creatures crowd the screen. The campaign lasts roughly 30 to 60 minutes, making it more like a concentrated horror short than a full-length survival-horror epic, and mouse-and-keyboard controls are required. Players who enjoy Evil Dead-inspired jokes, low-fi gore, and uncomplicated action should find a fun novelty here; anyone expecting the depth of Resident Evil or the sustained tension of Amnesia will likely want something longer and more refined.