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Very Positive · 81%Very Positive · 81%2017

Free to play

US Steam price, checked 3 h ago

The verdict

A free, short 1v1 invisible scare duel that's hilarious with a friend, but the player base is nearly dead and there's one map. Skip it if you have no one to play with.

Great for

Two friends wanting a quick, silly Halloween jumpscare duel on voice chat

Main risk

Public matchmaking is practically empty, so without a friend you can't play

What players love

Great fun with a friend

Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews

“Hearing the other person yelp when you shriek at them is the most satisfying part of the game!”
Steam review · 11.1 h played ↗

“the game is frankly way more fun with friends since the primary goal is to jumpscare your opponent”
Steam review · 37.7 h played ↗

“The devs have abandoned the game, but even in its current state playing with friends is great.”
Steam review · translated · 9.2 h played ↗

Fun jumpscares and tense mind games

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“good and funny jumpscares combinated with the stress of winning your opponent, it's awesome”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗

“The mind games are spooky and you have to keep an eye on everything.”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

Free to play

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“cool artstyle, cool sound design and overall a very fun game! AND IT'S FREE TOO!!! 11/10”
Steam review · 50.1 h played ↗

“A masterpiece of a game, especially considering it's free.”
Steam review · translated · 1.9 h played ↗

Spells and rune combinations add depth

Mentioned in ~1 in 12 positive reviews

“The game has a decent assortment of spells which are a joy to discover as you try out every rune combination you can.”
Steam review · 37.7 h played ↗

“There are a great many rune combinations, and tactics too.”
Steam review · translated · 5 h played ↗

Perfect Halloween game

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews

“this game is unironically the best Halloween game out there”
Steam review · 18.8 h played ↗

“all year this game is dead... except for halloween!! and thats amazing cause thats what the game feels like it was made for”
Steam review · 6.5 h played ↗

Quick, short matches

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews

“It is a fun 5-20 minutes if you want to kill some time with a friend.”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗

What players complain about

Almost no players, matchmaking fails

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“Now the average monthly player count is only 30ppl or less.”
Steam review · 15.2 h played ↗

“I searched for a game for about an hour and never found one. Changing servers did nothing.”
Steam review · translated · 1.8 h played ↗

“all I been playing so far was 30 minutes of looking at matchmaking screen. Game is dead :/”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

SteamVR launch, lag and crashes

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“Why the hell is a Non-VR-Game starting VR-Software like Steam VR or Oculus? Several Crashes through that!”
Steam review · 4.1 h played ↗

“every time i join in a game, it freezes when it finds a match and then i get disconnected”
Steam review · 0.2 h played ↗

“it will automatically activate steamVR then crash the game”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗

Only one map and gets repetitive

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews

“the game never gets any updates its the same map over and over”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗

“Very monotonous and gets boring quickly.”
Steam review · translated · 5.1 h played ↗

Abandoned by devs, no updates

Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews

“sadly the devs pretty much stopped working on it after they launched instead of possibly creating new maps, runes and spells and even different game modes.”
Steam review · 9.5 h played ↗

Opponents quit and you get no XP

Mentioned in ~1 in 21 negative reviews

“Players decide that when they are losing, they just disconnect from the game instead of forfeiting and the game is cancelled and wiped.”
Steam review · 4.9 h played ↗

“If the opponent is losing, there's a 75% chance he leaves the round and you don't get credit for the win.”
Steam review · translated · 1.5 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unknown

Minimum

OSWindows 7 64 Bit/ Windows 8 64 Bit/ Windows 10 64 Bit

ProcessorCore i5 processor or equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsIntel Iris HD5200 pro or equivalent

Storage4 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 7 64 Bit/ Windows 8 64 Bit/ Windows 10 64 Bit

ProcessorCore i5 processor or equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA 760 series 2Gb VRAM or equivalent

Storage4 GB available space

OSWindows 7 64 Bit/ Windows 8 64 Bit/ Windows 10 64 Bit

ProcessorCore i5 processor or equivalent

Memory4 GB RAM

GraphicsIntel Iris HD5200 pro or equivalent

Storage4 GB available space

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