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The Blackout Club
The Blackout Club is a first-person co-op horror game centered around a group of teenage friends investigating a monstrous secret beneath the skin of their small town. 1-4 players explore procedurally-generated missions against a fearsome enemy you can only see with your eyes closed.
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Have you ever wanted to play as one of those meddling kids who foil the town evildoer? How about doing so with some of your friends? If you love sneaking around backyards and climbing out windows late at night, I think you might just be the sort of person The Blackout Club is looking to recruit.
The Blackout Club is a solid cooperative stealth game with a splash of horror.
Having been a massive fan of Question’s previous effort, a criminally overlooked subversive deconstruction of game development and hubris titled The Magic
As previously mentioned, this is a multiplayer game, where your online friends help out, or you can utilise random strangers to mix things up a little. The good thing here is that the vast majority of online players are heavily invested in the game. They’re not about to lark around or attempt a few betrayals and team killings present in the more heavily populated environments of Rainbow Six: Siege or Battlefield V. This is a game apparently free of trolls.
The Blackout Club is ambitious, but it doesn't have enough variety to make me care for that ambition. Thankfully, there are ways that players can make the game better on their own, filling in what the game lacks, but the game needs to back it up a little more.
A special & atmospheric co-op horror game currently impaired by lack of long-term incentives.Rarely has there been a more energetic time for online horror experiences. Rather than the expected template of [...]
We’ve seen a lot of games clearly influenced by Stephen King being released lately, especially those revolving around groups of kids tackling the supernatural. The Stranger Things game is an obvious example, as well as RAD, even though the Stephen King influences in it are a lot more subtle and hidden behind layers of neon, synthesizers, and unfunny jokes. The Blackout Club is the latest game in this trend, a team-based stealth horror title clearly influenced by works like IT and even a bit...
And maybe that polish will still come. Maybe the glitches will get fixed down the line, maybe the game will get that fresh burst of variety in its missions and enemy types that it needs, maybe it'll get a fresh set of environments. But at this time, The Blackout Club isn't a club worth joining. For now, close your eyes and try to imagine a better game.
So while it's fun at first, The Blackout Club just doesn't have enough going for it to keep players engaged for longer than a couple of hours. The game becomes a boring, repetitive slog that gets less scary and more annoying the longer it's played. We once considered it one of our most anticipated horror games of 2019, but it fails to live up to expectations, to say the least.
The Blackout Club is one of the most unique online horror games out there!
Conversely, however, I don’t think I played a single match that I didn’t enjoy. The game offers an immediately recognisable concept, that manages to innovate and surprise, and it’s entirely unlike anything else I’ve played before. Just like a secret clubhouse, it’s likely to lose its allure if you spend all your time there - but it’s exciting as hell to to visit in a snatched moment.
If you were to watch a trailer for recent horror co-op game The Blackout Club, it’d be pretty easy for you to see its play on 80’s nostalgia. With popular properties such as It and Stranger Things following a team of ragtag teens working to fight against the great big bad, the game looks to opt into this trend too. Thankfully, the more you play of The Blackout Club the more it feels less and less like a cash in on a niche and instead a celebration of it. It achieves this to a degree that ...