{"id":1047261,"date":"2026-09-06T17:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1047261\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T17:12:17","slug":"halloween-the-game-devs-quickly-patch-out-sex-mini-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1047261\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween: The Game Devs Quickly Patch Out Sex Mini-Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halloween: The Game<\/a>,<\/a> IllFonic\u2019s multiplayer survival game based on the Halloween film franchise, received its first hotfix patch this morning. However, the game doesn\u2019t officially release until September 8 and is currently only available in advanced access to those who pre-ordered the deluxe edition. So, what kind of game-breaking bug could have possibly necessitated a sudden pre-release update?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible it was the one that let a 56-year-old character, who was modeled after a much-beloved late actor, sleep with its cast of underage teenagers. As spotted by several users on X<\/a> last night, Halloween: The Game previously featured a rather tongue-in-cheek sex minigame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The minigame is clearly a play on the \u201cSex Signals Death\u201d slasher movie trope, which features multiple times in the Halloween franchise. Unfortunately, it seems the devs overlooked the fact that there\u2019s a specific outlier in the cast of under-18 teens that make up Halloween: The Game\u2019s playable characters: the 56-year-old Samuel Loomis, who shares his in-game likeness with the deceased actor Donald Pleasence.<\/p>\n

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The 70 year old dead actor\u2019s likeness fucking a teenager has gotta be patched out right https:\/\/t.co\/6OSe3nJPlp<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 baz. (@BazBombadil) September 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Much like Loomis, several of Halloween: The Game\u2019s playable characters are also from the Halloween films, such as, for instance, the 17-year-old Annie Brackett. As a result, it should come as no surprise that today\u2019s Hotfix 1<\/a> patch for Halloween: The Game has outright removed the sex minigame in its entirety.<\/p>\n

While the Hotfix 1 patch notes do not mention the minigame, several posts on the game\u2019s subreddit confirm<\/a> that it\u2019s been removed. The developers haven\u2019t referenced the minigame\u2019s disappearance in either the Halloween: The Game\u2019s Discord server or on any of its socials.<\/p>\n

Considering that the internet only caught on to this yesterday, I\u2019d say that a sub-24-hour response time is pretty impressive. Still, if this was indeed the reason for the emergency pre-release patch, it\u2019s equally strange that nobody during the QA testing phase caught that letting the likeness of a deceased middle-aged actor sleep with underage characters might be a potential issue. Perhaps the devs can reintroduce the sex minigame in the future, but program Loomis to simply shake his head in disapproval at the sight of the wardrobe instead.<\/p>\n

We reached out to IllFonic for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halloween: The Game, IllFonic\u2019s multiplayer survival game based on the Halloween film franchise, received its first hotfix patch…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1047262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[17810,96304,133571,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1047261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-halloween","tag-halloween-the-game","tag-illfonic","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117225215926936635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}