‘R.E.P.O.’ Sees You Stealing Fragile Objects & Fleeing Horrors

R.E.P.O. is a co-op expertise the place you might be tasked with sneaking extremely breakable trinkets out of a home with out breaking them or dying.

Whereas haunted homes are, admittedly, full of all types of apparitions and creatures that may attempt to kill you, they’re additionally full of stuff that’s value some huge cash to the fitting purchaser. A lot cash that there’s an entire firm constructed round retrieving this stuff (in as near mint situation as you’ll be able to handle). So, it’s effectively value hiring six folks and sending them in after pianos, vases, and different excessive value objects which can be mendacity round. I imply, in case you die, they don’t precisely must pay you.

Because the objects are solely value full value once they’re in immaculate form, you’ll must be cautious with them. Weight isn’t a difficulty as you’ll be selecting issues up with some type of sci-fi lifting ray, however the physics system at work within the recreation means it’s important to watch out with the way you carry it across the numerous hallways and damaged environments (haunted homes aren’t precisely recognized for being freed from litter). Any bump can lower the worth of the belongings you’re lugging round, so you’ll have to be further cautious.

Because of this R.E.P.O. throws numerous monsters at you – it’s onerous to fastidiously maneuver a television round when an enormous terrifying clown is dogging you down the halls and firing deadly lasers at you. There are various completely different creatures that may hunt you as you attempt to rob these properties, and preserving away from them with out breaking the stuff you’re making an attempt to steal turns this right into a ridiculous, hilarious expertise. Particularly so since your in-game robotic avatars converse by means of wiggling their heads and do with an depth that matches your individual screams and laughs. Anticipate loads of each in case you and a few associates decide this recreation up.

R.E.P.O. is out there now on Steam Early Entry.

About The Creator

Joel Couture

Joel has been protecting indie video games for numerous websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games might be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.