Lethal Company reviews round-up: Is it worth playing?
Lethal Company, a new indie co-op horror game that was released into early access in October, has seen a huge spike in players over the past few weeks.
Over 88,000 Steam user reviews have been posted at the time of writing for Lethal Company, accumulating to an «Overwhelmingly Positive» consensus on the PC platform.
Set in retrofuturistic post-apocalyptic dystopia, the premise has players taking on the role of contracted employees for a corporation, known simply as the Company. Your goal is to explore planets for scrap before selling it off and repeating with increased difficulty in a risk versus reward system.
With a not-so-subtle theme of capitalism, the indie game has been incredibly popular — with more than 100,000 concurrent players joining in on the action (as confirmed by developer Zeekerss).
To see why Lethal Company has become a bona fide hit with PC players around the globe, head below for a round-up of reviews.
While no official reviews from critics have been conducted as of yet – likely due to the game being in early access – here's a selection of Steam users' reviews to give you an idea of its quality.
«The Steam trailer really doesn't do this game justice,» one review by a gamer named Joe said. «Its extremely early access right now, and the gameplay itself is nothing too spectacular (yet), but the super dynamic proximity chat is what really makes this game for me.
»Hearing the muffled screams of someone getting choked out by a bug, followed shortly after by the panicked wails of another crewmember running for their life, is likely one of the funniest things I have ever experienced in a video game."
«My friend was slowly being killed in a room and all I could do was listen to his horrified screams over the
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