Lethal Company brings genuine and unpredictable fun in gaming back like you are young again.
The premise is super simple: you land on a planet with a ship, enter a randomly generated building to find items, and bring them back to the ship. You have 3 days, so 3 landings, to reach a profit quota. The quota increases with every successful run of 3 landings. While inside, monsters can hunt you down and kill you. If everyone dies, you lose the collected items. The money you earn can be used to buy useful or silly items to increase your chances.
Pretty simple right? The real fun starts when you make use of the audio system in-game. The simple stuff is that you can't speak to a dead person, but the dead folks can hear and spectate you. But Lethal Company does something amazing. It has a fantastic proximity audio system that not only muffles people around the corner or that are further away, but it also has wild effects on things like being choked or drowned.
Getting in spooky corridors and suddenly hearing your friend scream, followed by a haunting silence, gives both a hilarious and incredible rush of excitement. Seeing someone die in front of your eyes is hilarious and never gets old.
There are too many beautiful moments that I luckily captured that are perfect for campfire stories. From frighteningly shouting your friend's name in the hope of a reaction to screaming while running away from monsters.
I have to point out a few cons. While impressive that it's made by just one dude that initially made games in Roblox, it also makes for slow updates. While the fun is not dependant on the updates, at one point you've just seen enough and move on to the next game.
Using mods is heavily recommended, as someone keen on playing vanilla, because it adds so many more goofy items that do not help you whatsoever, but increase the silly fun even more.
Failing has never been this funny in gaming. Lethal Company has given me an incredible amount of fun and laughter that I haven't experienced in a long while.
The premise is super simple: you land on a planet with a ship, enter a randomly generated building to find items, and bring them back to the ship. You have 3 days, so 3 landings, to reach a profit quota. The quota increases with every successful run of 3 landings. While inside, monsters can hunt you down and kill you. If everyone dies, you lose the collected items. The money you earn can be used to buy useful or silly items to increase your chances.
Pretty simple right? The real fun starts when you make use of the audio system in-game. The simple stuff is that you can't speak to a dead person, but the dead folks can hear and spectate you. But Lethal Company does something amazing. It has a fantastic proximity audio system that not only muffles people around the corner or that are further away, but it also has wild effects on things like being choked or drowned.
Getting in spooky corridors and suddenly hearing your friend scream, followed by a haunting silence, gives both a hilarious and incredible rush of excitement. Seeing someone die in front of your eyes is hilarious and never gets old.
There are too many beautiful moments that I luckily captured that are perfect for campfire stories. From frighteningly shouting your friend's name in the hope of a reaction to screaming while running away from monsters.
I have to point out a few cons. While impressive that it's made by just one dude that initially made games in Roblox, it also makes for slow updates. While the fun is not dependant on the updates, at one point you've just seen enough and move on to the next game.
Using mods is heavily recommended, as someone keen on playing vanilla, because it adds so many more goofy items that do not help you whatsoever, but increase the silly fun even more.
Failing has never been this funny in gaming. Lethal Company has given me an incredible amount of fun and laughter that I haven't experienced in a long while.