Slasher 1983

Slasher 1983 is a stealth-based survival horror video game. The game follows the story of Jed Hewiit, a serial killer who participates in a snuff film.

Gameplay
Slasher 1983 is a stealth-based horror styled game played from a third-person perspective. The game consists of twenty levels as well as four unlockable bonus levels. Players dispatch enemies, primarily by stealthily executing them. At the end of each scene, players are graded based on their performance, and awarded one to five stars.

Unlockable content becomes available only when the player achieves three or more stars on a certain number of levels. On normal difficulty, players can earn only four stars; one is awarded for completing the scene under a certain amount of time, and one to three stars are awarded based on the brutality of the executions carried out during the level. On hard difficulty, players are graded out of five stars; one for speed, one to three for brutality and one for simply completing the level. To gain the maximum number of stars, a set number of brutal executions must be carried out over the course of each level; face-to-face fighting does not award stars.

In order to carry out executions, players must approach a victim from behind, undetected. To facilitate this, each level is full of "dark spots" (shadows where the player can hide). Enemies cannot see into the shadows (unless they see the player actually entering the area). A standard technique in the game is to hide in the shadows and tap a wall to attract the attention of a nearby victim. When the victim has examined the area and is moving away, players can emerge from the shadows behind them, and execute them.

Over the course of the game, players can use a wide variety of weapons, including plastic bags, baseball bats, crowbars and a variety of bladed items. Should players take damage, their health depletes; health can be restored through the use of painkillers, which are available throughout each level. Players also have a stamina meter which depletes as they sprint, but automatically replenishes when remaining stationary.

Plot
In 1983, Haddonfield, journalist, Sasha Cox, reports on the news about Jed Hewitt, a serial killer being held in Arkham Asylum. However, Jed receives an earpiece from the Director who guides him in an escape from the asylum.

After escaping the asylum, Jed is sedated and wakes up in the Director's hideout. The Director offers Jed the opportunity to murder people in special areas filmed by CCTV. Jed is instructed to kill a gang of corrupt police officers patrolling an abandoned area of Haddonfield.

Jed kills the cops and is sent to another area to kill more people in various abandoned locations to satisfy the Director's needs. While hunting Sasha, Jed learns that the Director is Vincent Miller, a former film director who now produces for a buff film ring. Sasha has been compiling evidence against Miller and now had enough to expose him. Jed kills Sasha and burns the evidence.

Once he returns to the asylum and kills his psychiatrist, Dr. Looms, Jed is instructed to follow the Alice Myers, a girl who killed his mother who was a serial killer like him. Jed is betrayed by the Director for the "final scene" of his film, which turns out to be a sequel to Slasher 1979, a previous snuff film the Director created, revealing that the Director had Jed's mother act as the killer in that film before having Alice kill her. Jed survives and escapes after killing Alice, prompting the Director to deploy his mercs, led by his right-hand man, Rhodes, to find and kill him.

Rhodes catches Jed and decides to play a cat and mouse game with him. Jed ends up managing to kill Rhodes and his men, before leaving deal with Miller. Jed fights police and SWAT teams hunting him through the subway and streets until he is cornered in a train yard.

He is almost summarily executed before the police are killed by the mercs, who recapture Jed and bring him to Miller's mansion compound where he is almost executed again. The mercs are distracted when Mason Crane, a psychopathic cannibal that Miller uses for some of his other snuff films, attacks them with a chainsaw.

Jed makes his way through the compound, killing all the mercenariess along the way, until facing Mason in the upper levels of the mansion, whom he defeats by luring onto a grate that collapses under his weight and causes him to fall to his death. Afterwards, Jed finally confronts Miller in his office and disembowels him with Mason's chainsaw.

Later, the media and police arrive at the mansion, discovering Miller's snuff ring and police complicity. Jed, however, is nowhere to be found.