Evil Dead: Army Of Darkness Vs Necroborg Officially Announced

Published Aug 27, 2026, 9:17 AM EDT Nicholas Becher is a gaming journalist with an MFA in Creative Writing from FAU. With extensive experience playing video games, he covers all forms of gaming content at Screen Rant, from breaking news to the latest fan theories. Most-played games range from Clair Obscur to Civ to Elden Ring to Halo 2 and beyond. Evil Dead is among the greatest horror franchises of all time, first terrifying audiences with Sam Raimi's original The Evil Dead 45 years ago now in 1981 with the original masterpiece. Made on a famously tiny budget, the film took us to a remote cabin with a group of unsuspecting friends and unleashed a nightmare of demonic Deadites on us in one of the most original and gory supernatural horror experiences of the time. While its extreme violence initially drew controversy, The Evil Dead became a cult classic and helped establish Raimi and star Bruce Campbell as horror genre icons. The franchise truly found its signature identity with 1987's Evil Dead 2, which blended that signature gore and gruesome horror with increasingly absurd slapstick comedy while transforming Campbell's Ash Williams into one of horror's most recognizable heroes. After several movies, a television series, comics, and video games, the property has continued finding new life over the years, with Evil Dead Rise revitalizing the franchise in 2023 and the recently released Evil Dead Burn carrying that momentum into its next gruesome chapter. However, Evil Dead is officially returning with a completely new horrifying experience in Evil Dead: Army Of Darkness vs. Necroborg (via Evil Dead Archives). Evil Dead fans may have missed this update as it was revealed quietly after Gen Con this year, but a brand-new Evil Dead tabletop experience appears to be on the way titled Army of Darkness vs. Necroborg, an officially licensed role-playing game from the creators of Evil Dead 2. The game was revealed through a special Gen Con event before writer Will Gibson subsequently discussed the project on the Evil Dead Archives forums. Gen Con's own schedule listed an Army of Darkness MÖRK BORG Defend the Necronomicon event, run by Lynnvander's Thomas Gofton, which placed players in a battle to defend a castle from the Army of Darkness. According to Gibson, Army of Darkness vs. Necroborg will run on the MÖRK BORG engine, with the system's streamlined approach intended to capture the "fun and frenzy" of Army of Darkness through fast, violent, over-the-top encounters. Gibson says he wrote the game's core book with input from Gofton, who also previously worked on Evil Dead 2, as well as designers behind Vast Grimm. Gibson also worked on Lynnvander's 2020 Evil Dead 2: The Board Game, while Gofton was one of that game's designers as well. The MÖRK BORG RPG system sounds particularly well-suited for the franchise, serving as a rules-light, old-school-inspired apocalyptic fantasy RPG built around quick resolution, high-stakes combat, and characters who aren't necessarily expected to survive for long. Its creators explicitly describe it as "light on rules," and its mechanics are available for others to adapt through the MÖRK BORG Third Party License. Vast Grimm, whose designers are contributing to Necroborg, is itself a standalone sci-fi horror adaptation of those rules created by Brian Colin and Ross Brandt, so the new Army of Darkness project has some experienced MÖRK BORG talent behind it. That said, there is no firm release date yet for the TTRPG, with Gibson's original August 5 post on the Evil Dead forum only describing the game as "coming soon" with its date still TBD, and there has not yet been a conventional press announcement. However, Gibson subsequently offered an explicitly unconfirmed/rumored update saying the crowdfunding campaign could enter prelaunch within the next few weeks, followed by a wider media push, with the campaign itself potentially launching around the Halloween season, which would make sense. He also suggested that, because development is already relatively advanced, the gap between crowdfunding and delivery should be considerably shorter than on some previous projects. Until the formal campaign goes live, though, it's definitely an exciting project that Evil Dead fans will want to keep on their radar.