Halloween: The Game, IllFonic’s multiplayer survival game based on the Halloween film franchise, received its first hotfix patch this morning. However, the game doesn’t officially launch until September 8 and is currently only available in Advanced Access for those who pre-ordered the deluxe edition. So what kind of game-breaking bug could have required a sudden pre-release update? He may have been the one who allowed a 56-year-old character, who was modeled after a beloved deceased actor, to sleep with his cast of underage teenagers. As several users on X discovered last night, Halloween: The Game previously featured a rather tongue-in-cheek sexual minigame. The minigame is clearly a play on the slasher movie “Sex Signals Death” trope, which appears several times in the Halloween franchise. Unfortunately, it seems the developers overlooked the fact that there is one specific outlier in the cast of under-18 teens that make up Halloween: The Game’s playable characters: 56-year-old Samuel Loomis, who shares his in-game likeness with late actor Donald Pleasence. Image of dead 70 year old actor fucking teen needs to be fixed properly https://t.co/6OSe3nJPlp – baz. (@BazBombadil) September 5, 2026 Like Loomis, several of the playable characters in Halloween: The Game are also from the Halloween movies, such as 17-year-old Annie Brackett. As a result, it should come as no surprise that today’s Hotfix 1 patch for Halloween: The Game has removed the sex minigame entirely. While the Hotfix 1 patch notes do not mention the minigame, several posts on the game’s subreddit confirm that it has been removed. The developers have not made reference to the disappearance of the minigame either on the Halloween: The Game Discord server or on any of their social networks. Considering the internet realized this yesterday, I’d say a response time of less than 24 hours is pretty impressive. Still, if this was indeed the reason for the pre-release emergency patch, it’s equally strange that no one during the QA testing phase realized that letting the image of a deceased middle-aged actor sleep with underage characters could be a potential problem. Perhaps the developers can reintroduce the sexual minigame in the future, but program Loomis to simply shake his head disapprovingly at the costume. We’ve reached out to IllFonic for comment.
