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‘Deadly Firm clone’ is among 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 that develops that recreation will make a squillion bucks). But often, one sticks the touchdown. Such is the case with REPO, a recreation about repossessing objects from creepy buildings that, on the time of writing, is promoting extra copies than Civilization 7.
Taking a look at REPO, it is not laborious to see why. It takes the monster-chewed bones of Deadly Firm, expands the max participant rely from 4 to 6, and provides two differentiating options. First, it casts gamers as googly-eyed, main colored pedal bins resembling the storybots from Netflix’s Sesame Avenue 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 your complete expertise with wibbly-wobbly physics.
Each object within the recreation may be lifted with a telekinetic beam. However 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 Shifting Out. Amusingly, gamers may 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 another way from Deadly Firm. 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 beneath tables or different obstacles. This provides a bit extra pressure and back-and-forth to participant escapades.
All of this had led to REPO shortly garnering an ‘Overwhelmingly Constructive’ ranking on Steam from virtually 2,000 critiques. “By no means occurred to me Deadly Firm was lacking physics till I performed this recreation,” writes Steam consumer eternalreflect, including its “shocking how a lot enjoyable you’ll be able to have throwing round objects—or being thrown your self.” Person 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 once you’re within the mission, you’ll be able to discover and take as a lot time as you want.”
It is also price 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.” Whereas the studio does not element its actual plans for the early entry interval, merely stating it desires to “work with the neighborhood to make this recreation one of the best it may be”, it factors out REPO is already “completely playable” and “fleshed out” with three worlds, 19 enemies, 29 gear objects and eight participant upgrades.
REPO is on the market now. The RRP is £8.50/$10, although it is presently working a 20% launch low cost.