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‘Lethal Company clone’ is likely one of the three remaining genres that now embody the whole thing of Steam, the opposite two being ‘Vampire Survivors clone’ and ‘hentai’. Most of those video games briefly clog up the brand new releases tab earlier than being changed by but extra cooperative, autobattling horror porn (the primary one who develops that recreation will make a squillion bucks). Yet often, one sticks the touchdown. Such is the case with REPO, a recreation about repossessing gadgets from creepy buildings that, on the time of writing, is promoting extra copies than Civilization 7.
Looking at REPO, it is not laborious to see why. It takes the monster-chewed bones of Lethal Company, expands the max participant rely from 4 to 6, and provides two differentiating options. First, it casts gamers as googly-eyed, major colored pedal bins resembling the storybots from Netflix’s Sesame Street knockoff Ask the Storybots, full with mouths that flap like a muppet’s at any time when the participant speaks over voice chat. Second, it imbues the whole expertise with wibbly-wobbly physics.
Every object within the recreation could be lifted with a telekinetic beam. But every object additionally has a unique weight worth, so bigger objects must be lifted by a number of gamers—much like top-down cooperative recreation Moving Out. Amusingly, gamers can even carry one another, which can be utilized to entry new areas, or, as demonstrated within the above trailer by the group dunking one participant into a rest room, for hijinks.
There’s one different factor that REPO does in a different way from Lethal Company. When gamers are noticed by one of many monsters lurking round, gamers can attempt to cover from it, squashing their our bodies proper down to allow them to creep below tables or different obstacles. This provides a bit extra rigidity and back-and-forth to participant escapades.
All of this had led to REPO rapidly garnering an ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ score on Steam from nearly 2,000 opinions. “Never occurred to me Lethal Company was lacking physics till I performed this recreation,” writes Steam person eternalreflect, including its “stunning how a lot enjoyable you’ll be able to have throwing round objects—or being thrown your self.” User Polaris, in the meantime, praises REPO’s extra freewheeling method to cooperative horror motion. “I personally love the truth that there actually is not a time restrict while you’re within the mission, you’ll be able to discover and take as a lot time as you want.”
It’s additionally value noting that REPO is an early entry recreation, with developer semiwork stating it expects to launch the ultimate model in “round 6 to 12 months.” While the studio would not element its actual plans for the early entry interval, merely stating it desires to “work with the group to make this recreation the very best it may be”, it factors out REPO is already “completely playable” and “fleshed out” with three worlds, 19 enemies, 29 tools gadgets and eight participant upgrades.
REPO is obtainable now. The RRP is £8.50/$10, although it is at present working a 20% launch low cost.
