The Chainsaw Massacre is coming to PS Plus in April 2025, the opportunity for us to offer you a perfect guide to getting started as a killer in the game. Massacre of innocent pixels doesn’t just happen.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the games offered in the PS Plus from April 2025and that’s why we said we were going to help you get a foot in the door. This is an asymmetrical multiplayer game which offers a team of 4 survivors to face 3 assassins from the cult films of the license. While the victims must quickly leave the scene, the killers must prevent them from doing so. Easier said than done, being a good killer in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre cannot be invented. Here is a guide to getting started as a killer in the game (very strange to write a sentence like that).
The goal of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre killers
In Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the main mission of the family of degenerates is to prevent the victims from escaping the family estate. It will be necessary to use strategy by relying on the strengths of each assassin. The casting is quite complete in this regard and we find well-known characters from the license, but also a few faces who won’t tell us much, but who fit perfectly into the setting. Playing as a team is essential, as is imposing constant pressure in the game to push survivors to make mistakes.
Get to know your surroundings
As a killer, knowing the map is essential to gaining an advantage. Survivors have a much easier time wandering around the grounds, sneaking around everywhere, so it’s imperative for you to know where to strike, when to strike, and premeditate your opponent’s moves. It is only by playing that we will learn to know the different cards in the game, even if randomness will inevitably add its two cents each time.
Use your skills and play as a team
Each Family killer has their own skills. A profile which will determine its role and its way of being played. For example, some assassins are better at relentlessly stalking their victims by following them into wall cracks, while others are able to detect the slightest noise, or inflict significant damage. It will ultimately depend on your preferences. There aren’t any characters that are more powerful than others; they all have distinct strengths and weaknesses. On the other hand, it will be very important to build a balanced team in order to maximize the chances of liquidating all the survivors. Note that with the exception of Leatherface, all the assassins start the game upstairs in the family estate.
Listen, anticipate and trap the domain
As a killer you must prevent survivors from leaving the family estate and to do this, in addition to your skills, you can use the environment. In The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, assassins can trap the map in different ways. Metal gates, often exits, can be electrified, while doors can be barricaded to force victims to break them down with a lot of noise or push them into other passages where you can trap them. Some killers, like the Hitchhiker or Sissy, can even set traps themselves. The first uses some kind of deadly bear traps, the second deposits poison.
For your traps to be as effective as possible, you must have a good reading of the game, that is to say, know where the victims are, even approximately, and anticipate their movements. Here you can concentrate on spotting sounds or noise markers on the map, rely on the skills of certain assassins to scout or feed the grandfather to take advantage of his detection skills. Open your eyes, pay attention to the sounds and adapt your strategy accordingly – that’s the key to victory in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Taking good care of grandfather
In each game, regardless of the card, the great patriarch of the Family will be present, sitting on a chair. You might think he’s half dead, but that’s not the case. The grandpa from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is rather on standby, he snoozes while listening attentively to everything that is happening on the estate. He is capable of using his superhuman abilities to detect the presence of intruders at very long distances and even activate bonuses (depending on your on-board skills).
Ensuring grandpa’s well-being is therefore essential and for this, in addition to protecting him from being attacked, you will need to feed him. The grandfather drinks hectoliters of hemoglobin which must be recovered from your victims, by wounding or killing, or from the sorts of small altars scattered around the four corners of the map. Feed the old man, level him up so that he activates his detection abilities and that’s it. It is particularly because of him that the survivors have no other choice than to quickly leave the domain, before being definitively exposed.
The particular case of Leatherface, iconic killer of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Leatherface is definitely THE morbid star of the game. The famous Texas Chainsaw Massacre killer is the only one to start in the cellar of each map, in his disgusting lair closest to the victims. Subtlety is completely unknown to him, it must be said that when armed with an extremely noisy chainsaw, it is difficult to achieve finesse.
The guy will therefore act as the main Boogeyman and will aim to put crazy pressure on the survivors by relentlessly tracking them, destroying shortcuts and running after his victims with the chainsaw in the air like in the films.
Leatherface is unsurprisingly the biggest killer in the family, he has good endurance and is particularly robust in addition to inflicting enormous damage, especially when his chainsaw is fully charged. Your objective will therefore be to locate the victims thanks to the effects offered by the grandfather, the information from your massacre comrades, but also the environment. You will also have to fill the lack of mobility with your brute force by hindering the movement options of survivors and anticipating their movements.
Some tips for playing it
So start by covering the cellar exits. Whether it’s the tunnel, to win the game, the door or the ladder. It’s certain that the survivors will eventually come out, but if along the way you can kill a few, that’s a gift.
Locate objects of interest to them such as key objects or toolboxes for example. You can collect some blood while exploring, but Leatherface isn’t really the best for the job. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’s flagship killer will especially excel outdoors and in spaces in which he can move without too much hindrance. Outdoors, cover the gate or the main road by making your chainsaw purr. If unfortunately a survivor attempts to sprint towards the exit, rush at them with a rush to kill them quickly with uninhibited and exhilarating violence.
