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‘Deadly Firm clone’ is without doubt 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 that develops that sport will make a squillion bucks). But often, one sticks the touchdown. Such is the case with REPO, a sport about repossessing gadgets from creepy buildings that, on the time of writing, is promoting extra copies than Civilization 7.
REPO, it is not exhausting 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, major colored pedal bins resembling the storybots from Netflix’s Sesame Avenue knockoff Ask the Storybots, full with mouths that flap like a muppet’s each time the participant speaks over voice chat. Second, it imbues the whole expertise with wibbly-wobbly physics.
Each object within the sport might be lifted with a telekinetic beam. However every object additionally has a distinct weight worth, so bigger objects must be lifted by a number of gamers—much like top-down cooperative sport Shifting Out. Amusingly, gamers may also raise 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 otherwise from Deadly Firm. When gamers are noticed by one of many monsters lurking round, gamers can attempt to conceal from it, squashing their our bodies proper down to allow them to creep beneath tables or different obstacles. This provides a bit extra rigidity 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 opinions. “By no means occurred to me Deadly Firm was lacking physics till I performed this sport,” writes Steam person eternalreflect, including its “stunning how a lot enjoyable you possibly can 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 possibly can discover and take as a lot time as you want.”
It is also value noting that REPO is an early entry sport, with developer semiwork stating it expects to launch the ultimate model in “round 6 to 12 months.” Whereas the studio would not element its precise plans for the early entry interval, merely stating it needs to “work with the group to make this sport the perfect it may be”, it factors out REPO is already “completely playable” and “fleshed out” with three worlds, 19 enemies, 29 gear gadgets and eight participant upgrades.
REPO is out there now. The RRP is £8.50/$10, although it is presently operating a 20% launch low cost.
