A follow up to 2016's trippiest FPS just released on Steam, and it's a thousand times trippier
In 2016, a first-person shooter called Devil Daggers(opens in new tab) appeared on Steam. It could've been the subject of a middle schooler's creepypasta: a game so demonic that most people only survive for a few seconds, and no one's seen the end, if there even is one. After several hours of play, my Devil Daggers survival record is just 70 seconds. How do you take a concept like that to the next level?
Hyper Demon, a surprise Devil Daggers follow up that released on Steam(opens in new tab) today, has the answer: a game so demonic that it's possible to survive for less than zero seconds.
Rather than counting the seconds until you die like Devil Daggers, Hyper Demon starts counting down from 10 seconds when the game starts. If the world didn't dissolve away after I intentionally reached a low score of about negative 30 seconds, I could theoretically be infinitely bad at Hyper Demon.
To finish with a positive score in Hyper Demon, you have to kill the demons it spews at you as fast as you can. Death is easier to avoid in Hyper Demon than it is in Devil Daggers—I would've already beaten my Devil Daggers survival record if Hyper Demon counted seconds up instead of down—but so far it seems like it's just as hard to record a high score. The world record score right now is 368.
Like in Devil Daggers, you can watch a replay of any run on the leaderboard, and I have absolutely no clue what the player is doing in the record run: They're air dashing through hellspace in incomprehensible ways, using weapons I don't even know how to get. It looks like a Quake pro infiltrated Satan's quantum computer.
I recognizesome of what the best Hyper Demon player is seeing, including «holographic» red images which warn you about enemies
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