Lethal Company is the latest co-op horror game that’s managed to capture the attention of gamers for more than a few days.
Taking a page from success stories like Phasmophobia and SCP: Secret Lab, Lethal Company has players working for “The Company”, a massive organization that collects artifacts from across the known universe and is willing to pay handsomely for them.
Players are given a quote to achieve every couple days, with one of those days spent flying back to The Company HQ to sell your goods to a weird tentacle monster.
The game’s popularity is due in part to how silly it is, low-poly graphics, some spooky ambience, and the meme potential of four friends screaming and dying has sent the game skyrocketing in popularity. A week after launch Lethal Company sat at about 3,000 active players, at the time of writing it’s hit an all-time (and 24 hour peak) of over 187,000 according to Steam Charts.
You are a contracted worker for the Company. Your job is to collect scrap from abandoned, industrialized moons to meet the Company’s profit quota. You can use the cash you earn to travel to new moons with higher risks and rewards–or you can buy fancy suits and decorations for your ship. Experience nature, scanning any creature you find to add them to your bestiary. Explore the wondrous outdoors and rummage through their derelict, steel and concrete underbellies. Just never miss the quota.
Lethal Company is available now on Windows PC (via Steam). You can check out our hands-on preview here.