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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 8.0 hrs on record
Posted: Apr 6, 2024 @ 5:53am
Product received for free

This game feels like what happens when you try to make a game based around the "Lethal Company funny clips" you'd find on tiktok or on Discord. The whole game is meant to be recording funny clips of your friends getting terrorised by monsters to meet a quota of views with no other real main objective, which makes most of the gameplay feel completely forced. You spend maybe a good amount of time looking for the monsters, which means most of the time you're just like "wow look at these spinning gears and emotes we have guys" until you eventually come across a monster. And even then, some of the monsters are just boring as hell to run into or are too overpowered to where it's essentially game over if you encounter them. The snail monster seems to only exist to record your friend getting grabbed for a few seconds, the whisker seems to only exist to record it tweaking on the ground like some Vancouver citizen OD'ing in broad daylight while other people surround it recording it, and then you have stupid monsters like the barnacle that are a total waste of time. If you get caught by this thing, you may as well just go AFK because it's game over for you as you'll just slowly die no matter how hard you button mash to get out, and if your friends revive you you'll just be stuck again. You can't even free people using the taser so what's the point??? Monsters like the grenade throwing dude and the boston dynamics dog are fun encounters since they actually create panic without being like the giant or throwing monster where if you don't have a full bar of stamina you're completely screwed.

For the first few hours, it's hilarious when you and your friends die. But the more you play, the more the laughter just turns into an "ugh looks like we're pressing F3 to save the footage again". There's like 3 maps total so there's barely anything to change up the gameplay loop other than the occasional "we added lasers in the hallway" or "this trapdoor is now open instead of closed". The thing that made Lethal Company fun was the fact the game had an objective and fun upgrades for your ship that made going above the quota feel worth it, while the scares you get from the monsters was secondary and not the only focus of the game.

Lethal Company was still fun once you got bored of the vanilla game because of the amount of mods it had that actually improved the game by adding more player slots, letting monsters go outside, actual upgrades for you and your friends, and other mods that would make the monsters even more terrifying to deal with (like the maskless doppelgangers).
Meanwhile this game's modding potential isn't all that great because the vanilla game itself barely has anything to offer. You can't even add more player slots since Photon has a hard cap of 4 players. And most other mods just make the game easier like making items free or giving you infinite health/stamina.

Anyway, the tl;dr: boring flavour of the week, go play Lethal Company instead.
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