Alkurai

The store page promises a four-player online co-op fantasy horror game about toppling a murderous alchemist, and on that specific promise it delivers. Four of us stumbled through the alchemist's dungeons on a Saturday night, panic-shouting about where the exit was, and it landed exactly where a co-op scare game should: chaotic, funny, occasionally tense. Evading the alchemist's creations rather than fighting them straight keeps the pressure on, and the achievement hunt gives your group a reason to keep piling back in. Where reality drifts from the pitch is everything outside that four-stack. Solo and duo runs feel like they're missing half their design, and there's no split-screen, so this is headsets-and-Discord only rather than a couch night. It's a small indie with the rough edges that implies, and the Very Positive rating comes from a small pool of players who almost certainly played it the intended way. Get your regular group together and it's a couple of very good evenings.

Riley · Scout Team

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