NOTE: This game was gifted to me by someone affiliated with the developers.

What's even more fun than chopping people up with your homemade machete while they're stuck in your bear traps? Well.. chasing down your friends with a chainsaw while you're on TeamSpeak with them and screaming "COME HERE LITTLE PIGGY!".

This game is heavily based on the old slasher movies. There is one killer and four (stupid) teenage survivors. The survivors' goal is to fix all generators, open one of the two exits (or hidden trapdoor if you're last alive) and escape. The killer's goal is *surprise!* killing all of these stupid kids and hanging them on hooks to offer them to his Lord and Savior Satan AKA "The Entity". The kids can't defend themselves against the 7 foot tall maniac, but they can use the environment to their advantage. You can hide in lockers (Outlast!), throw piles of wood behind you to block the killer's path or stun him when he's right next to it when you throw it down and you can use the mist in combination with rocks, trees etc. to your advantage to hide behind aswell. The only thing that's missing is a black guy, because they are always supposed to die first in slasher flicks, but oh well.. Future DLC?

There is five different items that you can unlock as a survivor and these will help you win. They are: the med kit, toolbox, map, flashlight and Skeleton Key. The med kit lets you heal people faster, while the toolbox makes you fix generators quicker or can let you destroy hooks to ruin the killer's day. The flashlight can be used as a flashbang towards the killer. By shining into his eyes for 1 or 2 seconds he will be temporarily blinded and anyone who he might be carrying on his shoulder will be dropped. And then there's the map. In my opinion the most useless item in the game, because it shows you what generators have been previously used by highlighting them through the walls for a short amount of time. If you have add-ons for it (I'll get to those in a bit) then you could also see the killer's aura, aswell as the exit locations. And then finally there is the mysterious Skeleton Key. Not much is known about this yet. I've played for about 40 hours at the moment of writing but I haven't gotten one of these yet; I have got add-ons for it however. Apparently the Skeleton Key lets you unlock the hidden trapdoor on the map after only 2 generators have been fixed already (while normally it will only open when you're last alive) and then you and all your friends can just jump through it for an insta-win. Don't take my word for that though.

Besides items there is a lot more to leveling and progression. All four survivors and all three killers have their own "progression tree" which can further developed with Bloodpoint, which are gained from finishing public games. Every survivor and every killer has his/her own unique perks and progression tree. You can keep progressing until you're level 50 and then you can go "Prestige" which will reset you back to level 1 and gives you a random bloodied cosmetic item for that character. All your perks and items get taken but you'll keep your 4 perk slots.

Besides the Leveling System there is also a Ranking System for public games. You start at rank 20 and you can work yourself up all the way to rank 1. Survivors and killers each have their own online rank, but unlike the levels which are tied to each different character, your rank is only tied to a category: either survivors or killers. If you get enough points you will receive a "crystal" or even two if you manage to get the max amount of points. As soon as you collect 3 of these "crystals" you will rank up. At some point you'll need more than 3 and this amount keeps increasing the higher you get. If you don't get enough points in a match you will lose a "crystal" and when you're back to 0 crystals you'll lose your rank again. Right now there's not really a purpose for these ranks, besides showing others how brave and pro you are. You don't get matched with the same ranks and there's no unlocks or whatsoever, besides a colored number showing above your head. Also, you cannot earn bloodpoints or rank up in private games. All of this requires you to play with random people.

We already talked about items, but there's a lot more to your loadout. So, let's talk some more about add-ons, perks and offerings, shall we? There is add-ons, which are additional smaller items which you can attach to your main item to make it better, such as adding more charges to your med kit or being able to use the flashlight for a longer duration of time. Then there's offerings. Offerings can only be used once at the start of the match to get a one-time advantage over the killer. Such as all four survivors starting together or receiving 50% more Bloodpoints for the duration of that game. And finally there's perks. Each character has its own unique perks that help them in the game, linked to their personality and profession. Dwight is the Leader and so if you stay close to him you will repair the generators quicker. Meg is the silent cat girl who is quicker and more silent than the others. Claudette is the botany trained healer, who is better at healing others and Jack is the traps expert who can easily take care of and destroy traps quickly.

Now that we've talked about the survivors, let's talk about the killers. There is three different killers, each with their own unique weapon and skill. The Trapper can place down bear traps around the map that you can get stuck in and make you an easy pray for him. The Wraith can go nearly invisible as he pleases and suddenly pop up behind you to scare you like crazy. And the Hillbilly has a chainsaw that he can rev up to go into a crazed murdering state and come chasing after you while he holds his chainsaw above his head. Oh yeah and that also instantly downs you if it hits you.. I wonder what killer is going to be added next. I can't wait to chase people with a big, crazed, evil clown with a sledgehammer. Also real slashers like Jason Voorhees or Michael Meyers might be cool to see, in their respective areas, but I'm not sure if they can get the rights for that.

It also seems as if there has been made an area for each different killer. There are 3 different areas, each with 4 different maps. There is the Car Junkyard (linked to the Trapper), the abandoned Coal Factory with a broken bell tower (linked to the Wraith) and the old farm, full of the fantastic cornfields and more (linked to the Hillbilly).

All with all it's a really fun game, both to play with strangers, aswell as to play with friends, which I recommend the most. There is currently still some missing features however, like being able to play with your friends in public games, or some kind of chat for public games, but it's a really unique game with a lot of potential! The developers are promising a new update atleast once every week, so can't wait to see what's in store for us. I love unique games and I love horror movies, so this game is just perfect for me. It's both fun to play as a survivor aswell as the killer.

Things that can be improved or should be added:
- You cannot play in a public game with your friends and there's no bloodpoints to be earned in private games.
- There is not a single kind of chat mechanic. No text chat, voice chat or even quick chat. So you can't tell your fellow survivors that they can take you off the hook cause the killer is not camping you.
- Talking about that.. hookcamping, really ruins the fun!
- Several bugs that break the game such as being stuck on the killer's shoulders until one of you leaves.
- More rewards for the ranking system, aswell as balancing it so that you can rank up more easily.
- Preventions for leaving the game early and you losing crystals for that.
- A larger variety of maps (abandoned carnival, huge manor, a village or snow mountains sound like cool ideas).
- Voice acting for the killers.