The newest shock Steam hit is Content Warning, a Deadly Firm-style recreation that’s having fun with huge success on Valve’s platform off the again of a ‘free to maintain’ promotion that ends quickly.
Content Warning launched April 1 with 100% off for the primary 24 hours, after which the sport will value $7.99. This promotion, plus the actual fact the sport appears like a hoot, noticed a concurrent gamers peak of 90,000 and rising.
“Yearly for April 1st aka Landfall Day we do one thing particular,” mentioned writer Landfall Publishing. “This 12 months we’re releasing Content Warning for free for anybody who downloads it between now 9am PT and 9am PT tomorrow April 2nd.
“We do that as a particular deal with to our group in order that as many individuals as potential may have the possibility to play the sport.”
The promo clearly labored, with Content Warning within the high 10 most-played video games on Steam, over 7,500 critiques already, and an ‘overwhelmingly optimistic’ person assessment score. However what’s Content Warning? The co-op horror indie recreation duties you with filming your folks doing scary issues to change into “SpookTube well-known!”, based on the official blurb. It really works equally to Deadly Firm, which was a shock hit on Steam when it launched final 12 months — and remains to be going robust. You crew up with buddies to go to a scary world, get spooky footage, and (hopefully) make it again alive. Assume you accomplish that, you add your footage to SpookTube then watch the cash roll in. If solely it had been that easy in actual life!
Like Deadly Firm, Content Warning is tailor made for streaming, so it is no shock to see it doing decently on Twitch. The query after all is how will the sport fare when it prices cash to purchase? Till then, you’ve obtained 4 hours to seize it for free.
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