German director Uwe Boll, long notorious for critically panned video game film adaptations such as BloodRayne and Postal, has announced an official video game based on his own new film, Citizen Vigilante. The release is timed to exploit the controversy surrounding the movie, which stars Armie Hammer as Sanders, a man who takes justice into his own hands, largely by targeting criminal migrants. Critics have condemned the film as "morally bankrupt" and "borderline snuff", yet it has proven popular with a segment of online audiences.

The film, previously titled The Dark Knight and said by its makers to be based on real events, holds a 6% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes against a 93% audience score, and reached Prime Video's top 10 purchases and rentals partly thanks to Elon Musk making it free to watch on X for two days with Boll's permission. The game, developed by Daniel Wengenroth's German studio Polygon Art (unrelated to Polygon.com), promises "brutal, fast-paced action combat" with gore and dismemberment, and arrives on PlayStation 5 on 17 July. The news comes amid reports on Puck that Hammer was "in tears" after seeing the film and described it as "hateful, disgusting".