October is the most effective month for horror video games, as you possibly can see in our October horror video games roundup, and as we speak we’re including a brand new one to the lengthy record: 7 Minutes in Hell. Developed by Gaggle Studios, the staff behind the Amongst Us-like Goose Goose Duck, 7 Minutes in Hell has a equally apparent inspiration, although with an surprising twist; it is like if Deadly Firm was a twisted sport present.
7 Minutes in Hell asks gamers to descend into some decrepit, monster-infested labyrinths, accumulate as a lot loot as they’ll, and get out earlier than the timer is up. For gamers of a sure age, it may finest be likened to Grocery store Sweep, solely with worse lighting and fewer promoting for laundry detergent.
The sport will be performed alone, but in addition in co-op, and there is a sturdy emphasis on social parts, like deciding to ditch the group and escape with your earnings even when it means leaving everybody else within the (literal) darkish. With solely seven minutes per run, rounds are supposed to unfold shortly and ramp up in problem with every passing minute.
Like in Deadly Firm, you possibly can spend your earnings on subsequent rounds on sources like flashlights, which ought to enhance your possibilities of not simply surviving, however thriving in later rounds.
With in-game “sponsors” contributing extra buffs, it appears the sport has a satirical aspect to it, the identical approach Deadly Firm depicts office class construction or, maybe extra intently, how Squid Game depicts the frequent particular person’s chase for wealth in a system designed for them to lose.
7 Minutes in Hell launches as we speak, October 7, on Steam, and debuts as an early entry title with a roadmap already revealed. This yr will see extra threats and objects come to the sport throughout a number of updates, as nicely a brand new enviornment in December. Updates into 2025 are set to incorporate mod help, plus extra objects and monsters.