“Hey, you wanna play that latest game that is like Lethal Company? No, not Content Warning. No, not Pilgrim. Yes, R.E.P.O, that is the one!”
The gaming industry currently seems to be on fire when it comes to bigger and older companies with one closure after another. Yet the smaller studios with smaller projects are blooming here and there. Good concepts are being latched on to and quickly iterated. This is, of course, a perspective from the outside since each iteration I try, as a consumer, takes a lot of time and resources to create. The developers usually have only one chance to get things right. The latest in the trendsetting was Lethal Company which gave life to Content Warning, Pilgrim, The Headliners, N.E.P.O (my personal favourite currently). A friend of mine just put out his own solo project Demining on Steam.
And then again, one could argue that the real predecessor to the horror/coop was Phasmophobia (still in early access with a whooping 600k reviews). But by observing this iterating creativity we could safely say that there is a good demand for coop/horror games at the moment. What trend will be next in line? A couple of years ago it was about battle royale…
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