Killer Klowns from Outer Space video game coming in 2023

Grab your popcorn gun and balloon poodle because cult classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space is becoming a video game.

Next year, the Killer Klowns video game will come to PC, Playstation 5, Playstation 4, Xbox Series, and Xbox One. Gamers can either play as one of the klowns hunting down townspeople or a Crescent Cove citizen fending off the circus freaks.

The Klowns featured are Jumbo, Shorty, Chubby, Spikey, and Rudy. The human characters are lumped into more generic characters of Teen, Biker, Cop, Punk, and Redneck. So no, you won’t be able to play this video game as Mike, Debbie or John Vernon. Weapons include various cotton candy guns. Here’s hoping we at least get to see Shorty knock a biker’s block off.

Official description: “Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game is a multiplayer, asymmetrical (3 vs 7) horror game that pits three Klowns against seven Humans. Klowns win by capturing most – or all – of the Human citizens of Crescent Cove, while Humans win by either de-activating the Klown’s Big Top spaceship, escaping the map before time runs out, or keeping the majority of the townsfolk alive for the entire round.”

Good Shepherd Entertainment has noted that the video game maps are “inventive, but faithful recreations of iconic locations from the Killer Klowns from Outer Space movie.”

The Chiodo Brothers’ Killer Klowns from Outer Space is having something of a revival. They recently turned up in a Halloween Horror Nights promo and are a popular addition to this season’s Spirit Halloween merchandise. The Chiodo Brothers also worked on Critters and Ernest Scared Stupid–now there’s a video game we’d love to have!

Killer Klowns joins an ever-growing list of video games based on horror properties. Evil Dead: The Game arrived earlier this year, while a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre game is due out in 2023.

You can watch the official reveal trailer below.