- 74/100
- Players42 ratings
- 82/100
- Critics1 review
More scores
- Metacritic8 critic reviews
- 82/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 73/100
- GameFAQsEasy
- 4/5
- Player reviews
- 93% positive5,152 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- US$5.99
Where to get it
2023 · Team17 · Adventure · Horror
Killer Frequency
Killer Frequency is a first-person horror puzzle game set in 1987, that puts you in the role of a late-night radio talk show host in small town America whose callers are being stalked by a mysterious killer.
- Released
- 1 June 2023
- Platforms
- Meta QuestNintendo SwitchPlayStation 4PlayStation 5WindowsXbox OneXbox Series X/S
- Genres
- AdventureHorrorIndiePuzzleSimulation
- Developers
- Team17
- Publishers
- Team17
- Perspective
- First personVirtual Reality
- Themes
- ActionHorrorComedy
- Age ratings
- ESRB TCERO CGRAC 19+ACB MCLASS_IND 12USK 16PEGI 12
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian and 1 more
- Time to beat
- 5hmain story12hcompletionist
About
Killer Frequency is a 2023 first-person horror-adventure game developed and published by Team17. The game takes place in a small town in 1987, where players control a successful radio host who acts as an impromptu radio dispatcher when a serial killer returns to terrorize the town's residents. The player must take calls from the survivors and solve various puzzles to help them escape the killer. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised its gameplay and comedy horror elements.
›Story
The year is 1987, and as the clock strikes midnight in small-town Gallows Creek, USA, former big city radio DJ Forrest Nash is live on air in what will turn out to be the graveyard shift of a lifetime...
In this horror comedy, you must solve puzzles to save callers from being hunted down by a mysterious killer. Where every call is life and death, can you save the inhabitants of Gallows Creek?
Players say
Media
The articlegameplay, story, development, reception
Development
The game was Team17's first virtual reality game. On June 1, 2023, the game was released on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Series S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Quest 2.
Reception
Killer Frequency received "generally favorable" reviews, according to review aggregator website Metacritic. Critics praised the game's balance of tension and campy, comedy horror. Softpedia awarded the game 4 out of 5 stars, praising the quality of its voice acting and gameplay, but criticizing the final act as being "rushed". Reyna Cervantes of Bloody Disgusting praised the game's use of the slasher genre, comparing it favorably to horror films such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Rachel Watts, writing for Rock Paper Shotgun, praised Killer Frequency's gameplay and puzzle elements.
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Collections2 collections
Years
- Games released in 2023List › April–June
Platform libraries
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