Chucky: Wanna Play? (found build of cancelled "Child's Play" stealth-action game; 2011-2012)

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Status: Found

Date found: 18 Feb 2023

Chucky: Wanna Play? is a cancelled stealth-action video game, based on the Child's Play horror movie franchise.

Development

The game was announced in May of 2011 by TikGames for PC and consoles and announced a Kickstarter campaign in October 2012. They already had $500 000 and the rights to publish, but they needed more money to do what they wanted for the gamers.

However, it was cancelled due to the money that the campaign needed to raise. TikGames had raised $585 with 19 backers and were trying to raise $925,000.

History

The video game was to be a gore-soaked adventure, in which it would let the player take Chucky's aggression on a number of random, suspiciously dressed victims in different, creative ways. The game also would have let the player stab someone in the face and not have to plead down to their way down to voluntary manslaughter. It is unknown what the plot would have been, as it seems it was intended to simply be a slasher game.

Recovery

On February 18th, 2023, a prototype of the game was uploaded to the Internet Archive by user "Riley5411." The description of the post claims that the build was found on an Xbox 360 devkit. ^[1]