It’s been a while since we saw anything from the once-iconic internet horror villain, but if a new tease from the official account for the most recent game featuring Slenderman is to be believed a new title might just be on the horizon.
The Twitter account for Slender: The Arrival, released back in 2013 as the last “major” Slenderman game, teased the impending arrival of something Slender-related with a creepy, 14-second video, and subsequently the official website for the game has also dropped a countdown timer which is set to end on July 28th (or 29th depending on timezones) with a link to the same video on YouTube.
Given that all of this is being shared through the Slender: The Arrival channels, it’s safe to assume what whatever is on the way – be it a new game, a remaster/remake or something else – is coming by way of the same folks at Blue Isle Studios.
He's waiting…#slenderman #slenderTA pic.twitter.com/eiXNEEU7q7
— Slender: The Arrival (@PlaySlenderTA) June 22, 2023
After gaining viral, creepypasta status in the early 2010s, the Slenderman legend died out as studios across every kind of media rushed to produce Slender content, including a 2018 feature film from Sony Pictures that was a box office bomb and a critical failure. Much of the characters’ falling out of favour can be attributed to a non-fatal stabbing incident in Wisconsin in 2014 carried out by two 12-year-olds that shook the internet, which caused widespread moral panic over the Slenderman myth, first dreamed up by Eric Knudsen as an entry into an online Photoshop contest in 2009.
