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Goosebumps: Dead of Night

Slappy the Dummy has unleashed a nightmare of Goosebumps monsters, and they’re all out to get you! Escape from frightening creatures like the Graveyard Ghoul, Lawn Gnomes, Annihilator 3000, Murder the Clown…

20 12 June 2020

Goosebumps: Dead of Night is an adventure developed by Cosmic Forces, released 12 June 2020 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Goosebumps: Dead of Night is

Goosebumps: Dead of Night is an adventure game developed by Cosmic Forces and released in 2020. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

It’s up to you to stop Slappy’s evil plan to unleash his monsters across the world… don’t worry, you’ll have some allies along the way like Nikola Tesla, Dr. Brewer and R.L. Stine, voiced by Jack Black. For the faint of heart, beware—you’re in for a scare!
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How it plays

Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the GooseBumps series

Goosebumps: Dead of Night is the seventh of 8 entries we hold in the GooseBumps series. It arrived 2 years after Goosebumps HorrorTown. The next entry was Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek in 2025. Its critic score of 20 is 19 points below the series average of 39. The highest-rated entry is Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek at 76.

See all 8 GooseBumps games in release order →

How it was received

Goosebumps: Dead of Night holds a critic score of 20 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 53 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Goosebumps: Dead of Night launched on 12 June 2020, within three weeks of The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant and Desperados III. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Part II, Fortnite, Valorant, Desperados III.

Official trailer

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When did Goosebumps: Dead of Night come out?
Goosebumps: Dead of Night was released on 12 June 2020 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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