I have played a lot of co-op games.
This one scratched an itch I've haven't been able to scratch for a while.
Imagine me walking through Times Square, boots on the ground, first responder to the impending invasion. Me and my buddy are grabbing photos of the action.
> Soldiers are fighting monsters
> Civilians are being picked off the streets.
> Carnage everywhere you look!
> Suddenly, Kaiju level alien comes in and wipes out everyone and everything in it's path.
I'm taking pictures and dodging debris, grabbing the "money shot". Suddenly an entire bus comes flying into my friend, blood and guts litter the streets, his limbs scattered everywhere. So what do I do in my moment of panic? I take a selfie with his corpse and made a run for it to the helicopter. Highly recommend this game!!
I have played a lot of co-op games.
This one scratched an itch I've haven't been able to scratch for a while.
Imagine me walking through Times Square, boots on the ground, first responder to the impending invasion. Me and my buddy are grabbing photos of the action.
> Soldiers are fighting monsters
> Civilians are being picked off the streets.
> Carnage everywhere you look!
> Suddenly, Kaiju level alien comes in and wipes out everyone and everything in it's path.
I'm taking pictures and dodging debris, grabbing the "money shot". Suddenly an entire bus comes flying into my friend, blood and guts litter the streets, his limbs scattered everywhere. So what do I do in my moment of panic? I take a selfie with his corpse and made a run for it to the helicopter. Highly recommend this game!!
Lost three friends, both legs, and my camera. Got the shot. Worth it.
This game is complete nonsense in the best way. It’s like Content Warning and Lethal Company got drunk, invited R.E.P.O. over, and all three started a band made of screaming aliens and exploding cameras.
You run around with your friends, trying to take the most insane, gory, ridiculous photos while everything around you is actively trying to kill you—or amputate you for fun. One minute you’re laughing at your buddy falling in a pit, the next you’re clutching a blurry photo of a tentacle monster eating a vending machine and screaming “this better go viral.”
Out of all the “team of idiots in danger” games, this one’s easily my favorite. It’s just so damn wacky. Everything feels like it’s 5 seconds away from falling apart, and somehow that makes it perfect.
10/10, would lose another limb for the perfect shot.
>be me a new news reporter looking for action
>Lands in war torn city with other reporters to get the latest news
>go into nearby store looking for aliens
>sees a blue squid and snap a photograph
>watch blue squid grab another reporter and proceed to bounce him around the walls
>run outta the building back into the streets
>see the military thinking oh good we are safe
>hears loud crashing from down the street, its godzilla
>proceed to watch gozilla kill the entire army squad no problem
>turn around to see a huge brute behind me
>proceed to catch a chunk of concrete to the back of the head
>restart and do it over again
10/10 would catch concrete again
The game is real fun but the stupidest thing ever is that once you kicked and afk friend who forogt to left the game so you can make space for someone else that friend will be banned from all future lobbies? What is the sense in this?
Me and three of my anime girlfriends played this game and would honestly recommend to any group looking for a quick and cheap bit of fun!
I have absolutely no complaints and it had old me cackling in my seat! aha
get this game!
A great example of a game that doesn't deserve a thumbs up or down kinda in the middle. As of right now yes it is 6 bucks but when content warning is 8 and has MUCH more content, it's hard to justify choosing this game over content warning. Enemies all spawn in the same area's each map. Enemies become boring super fast as there is not much variation. At this time with it not even being in early access, I'd say avoid and wishlist. Give it some time to cook and come back in a few months to see if there's more to it.
Core gameplay is fun with friends, game has a good enough foundation that it could be the next phasmaphobia or lethal company... but I can't recommend the game due to it basically being an early access game in beta released as a full finished product. Main reason for most of the cons is that it is "Full Release" and should be "Early Access".
Pros:
1. Gameplay loop is good.
2. Concept is fun and unique.
3. Visual/art design is fun.
4. Alien designs are really awesome.
Cons:
1. Physics is cool until you realize how lazy it was done because you can get stuck in corners by objects and forced to quit or wait 5 minutes staring into the abyss to fail.
2. Collision is absolutely horrid, the kaiju specifically can notice and eat you by clipping it's whole neck through an entire building and eating you while you sneak .
3. equipment verity is so small and half of it literally is useless, like the bear trap literally does nothing but cost you money.
4. Maps are abysmal, after two sessions you essentially have experienced every map almost.
5. Don't bother going inside buildings, they literally net you barely any points for anything except to waste your time until things happen outside.
6. Ladders are a real mess, some are placed above the roof slightly making it really hard to even start climbing down and sometimes launches you off the roof top and kills you.
7. Often times the photos point system is very inconsistent.
8. Monsters have severe short term memory and ADHD, if you want to lure a monster and you walk 3 feet too far, they just turn around and forget you ever existed.
9. A lot of the lighting is really really bad later levels, you get rooms that are soooo blue you can't even see half the stuff in the room due to how the light works.
Overall, foundation is really good and I think if the devs put the effort in then they could have a seriously popular game that would be worth more than they are asking for. I'll edit my review if and when things change, I think this game could have a promising future.
This game is pretty fun with friends, some of the moments are top notch. Die trying to snap a pic of Velociralien's coochie while having one leg and one arm, or the big Slender boi that likes to stomp like he just lost a ranked game. 10/10
Great game, especially if you have friends to play with. I enjoy how you get to danger level 2 and the godzilla comes out and blocks the road completely so you end up losing all of your chances then get fired and have to restart from the beginning again. I also enjoy when the military comes in to help and shoots a rocket launcher at a car near you and then die, not from the explosion but the car smashing you against a building, basically like a transformer twerking on you until your body parts fly all over the place all while hearing someone yell "GET ME OUT OF HERE" as a slab of concrete meets there face going mach speed.
Great game 11/10
The game really has potential, and I will probably check in on the game in time to see if it has lived up to it. The game really needs more than just photo taking. Lethal Company is built on watching your friends die in horrific ways while your running around getting scrap, Content Warning is literally you watching your shenanigans play out on the big screen. This game is just taking photos of some cool designed aliens that walk in straight lines and make your friend's arm fall off. If this game had something like a video editor where you could poorly edit together some short 5 second clips or if you had a news recording studio where you reacted as an anchor to your photos and short video clips then this game would be a fantastic improvement on the already good basis it has
Classic example of a potentially great party game brought down by posing as a roguelike.
And, like all games, the stamina system only detracts from gameplay, and offers nothing to benefit the experience.
You die in a level, you lose your high level camera, get no money, and then WILL fail the next attempt because you do not have a bonus to score from your camera. Tough luck, restart your lobby and sit through the boring first 3 levels to get back to anything interesting.
Also, in later levels it REALLY seems like a literal die roll of "does the big dino or slender man spawn to cause a lot of explosions, or do you get the big bat again, which does minimal explosions, and spends almost no time on the ground to pose near corpses / enemies to increase photo score.
Also,
The duplicate photo system sucks. Camera auto selecting the far left, aka MOST valuable photo after deleting something WILL result in you accidentally deleting your best photo on accident. Ridiculous to default to the left.
TLDR
This will be playable when it is added to R2Modman.
This game is quite fun overall, albeit it can be a bit repetitive even with the randomization each round. That being said, I have two major issues with The Headliners:
1) The use of AI isn't explicitly disclosed by the devs anywhere.
2) The game is horribly optimized, so much so that the invasion/boss sequences make my CPU and GPU usage and temperatures skyrocket despite my computer: (a) exceeding all of the spec recommendations, (b) capping the FPS to 60, and (c) turning off anti-aliasing.
I won't recommend the game until these kinks have been worked out. Hopefully sometime in the near future...
This game is great. Nothing makes you feel better than seeing your friend step on a manhole, get mauled and you take a selfie holding your friends severed leg.
Very good game ! I had no idea that being a journalist could be this fun !
10/10, would make a civilian walk on a landmine for content again !
Oh and, the devs are really active and works hard on the bugs and problems so give it a try !
This game is great. We go in, with 0 brain cells and have the best time.
The update, kinda ruined it??? Only one door to go into, and we take mad fall damage now. ;-; 1/10 was not expecting.
The game is super fun! Except we just found AI Generated art in it, that isn't disclosed. Really disappointed to find this. Cannot recommend on that principle. Such a shame because it's legitimately a super fun experience
Very fun game with friends. Couldn't stop laughing. 10/10! The emotes are great, the items are great, and the Gorilla booty! ( )I( )..Thick! *snap*snap*
Changing my review since they decided to add swearing to the NPCs. It was a good family game for us and now its not. If they make it so that you can mute NPCs in the settings then it will still be playable. Nothing has been said in response here or in discord so I guess the devs dont actually care. I played the game a fair amount and had over 40 hours, similar story for other family members I use to play with.
Considering the fact that it's not early access, very lacking in content.
The same 5-6 enemies, the same 5 maps, same interiors, very easy if you know what to do, no audio settings???, questionable performance sometimes and some other stuff.
While I do think it's fun with friends, I wouldn't recommend it in its current state.
Need some settings desperately.
No FOV slider (Default FOV seems to be roughly 40, extremely zoomed in.)
No V sync in game, terrible tearing. (Temp solution, forced through GPU program.)
No setting for head bobbing.
No Inverted mouse.
No audio settings.
As this game is launched as "Full release" is very concerning as the state of this game reflects a very early access build.
Poor Ai pathing. Very odd deaths (Seem to be related to the cars). Not that much content.
Until the settings been patched and information whether more content will be added or not, I can not recommend this.
I have played a lot of co-op games.
This one scratched an itch I've haven't been able to scratch for a while.
Imagine me walking through Times Square, boots on the ground, first responder to the impending invasion. Me and my buddy are grabbing photos of the action.
> Soldiers are fighting monsters
> Civilians are being picked off the streets.
> Carnage everywhere you look!
> Suddenly, Kaiju level alien comes in and wipes out everyone and everything in it's path.
I'm taking pictures and dodging debris, grabbing the "money shot". Suddenly an entire bus comes flying into my friend, blood and guts litter the streets, his limbs scattered everywhere. So what do I do in my moment of panic? I take a selfie with his corpse and made a run for it to the helicopter. Highly recommend this game!!
I have played a lot of co-op games.
This one scratched an itch I've haven't been able to scratch for a while.
Imagine me walking through Times Square, boots on the ground, first responder to the impending invasion. Me and my buddy are grabbing photos of the action.
> Soldiers are fighting monsters
> Civilians are being picked off the streets.
> Carnage everywhere you look!
> Suddenly, Kaiju level alien comes in and wipes out everyone and everything in it's path.
I'm taking pictures and dodging debris, grabbing the "money shot". Suddenly an entire bus comes flying into my friend, blood and guts litter the streets, his limbs scattered everywhere. So what do I do in my moment of panic? I take a selfie with his corpse and made a run for it to the helicopter. Highly recommend this game!!
Lost three friends, both legs, and my camera. Got the shot. Worth it.
This game is complete nonsense in the best way. It’s like Content Warning and Lethal Company got drunk, invited R.E.P.O. over, and all three started a band made of screaming aliens and exploding cameras.
You run around with your friends, trying to take the most insane, gory, ridiculous photos while everything around you is actively trying to kill you—or amputate you for fun. One minute you’re laughing at your buddy falling in a pit, the next you’re clutching a blurry photo of a tentacle monster eating a vending machine and screaming “this better go viral.”
Out of all the “team of idiots in danger” games, this one’s easily my favorite. It’s just so damn wacky. Everything feels like it’s 5 seconds away from falling apart, and somehow that makes it perfect.
10/10, would lose another limb for the perfect shot.
>be me a new news reporter looking for action
>Lands in war torn city with other reporters to get the latest news
>go into nearby store looking for aliens
>sees a blue squid and snap a photograph
>watch blue squid grab another reporter and proceed to bounce him around the walls
>run outta the building back into the streets
>see the military thinking oh good we are safe
>hears loud crashing from down the street, its godzilla
>proceed to watch gozilla kill the entire army squad no problem
>turn around to see a huge brute behind me
>proceed to catch a chunk of concrete to the back of the head
>restart and do it over again
10/10 would catch concrete again
The game is real fun but the stupidest thing ever is that once you kicked and afk friend who forogt to left the game so you can make space for someone else that friend will be banned from all future lobbies? What is the sense in this?
Me and three of my anime girlfriends played this game and would honestly recommend to any group looking for a quick and cheap bit of fun!
I have absolutely no complaints and it had old me cackling in my seat! aha
get this game!
A great example of a game that doesn't deserve a thumbs up or down kinda in the middle. As of right now yes it is 6 bucks but when content warning is 8 and has MUCH more content, it's hard to justify choosing this game over content warning. Enemies all spawn in the same area's each map. Enemies become boring super fast as there is not much variation. At this time with it not even being in early access, I'd say avoid and wishlist. Give it some time to cook and come back in a few months to see if there's more to it.
Core gameplay is fun with friends, game has a good enough foundation that it could be the next phasmaphobia or lethal company... but I can't recommend the game due to it basically being an early access game in beta released as a full finished product. Main reason for most of the cons is that it is "Full Release" and should be "Early Access".
Pros:
1. Gameplay loop is good.
2. Concept is fun and unique.
3. Visual/art design is fun.
4. Alien designs are really awesome.
Cons:
1. Physics is cool until you realize how lazy it was done because you can get stuck in corners by objects and forced to quit or wait 5 minutes staring into the abyss to fail.
2. Collision is absolutely horrid, the kaiju specifically can notice and eat you by clipping it's whole neck through an entire building and eating you while you sneak .
3. equipment verity is so small and half of it literally is useless, like the bear trap literally does nothing but cost you money.
4. Maps are abysmal, after two sessions you essentially have experienced every map almost.
5. Don't bother going inside buildings, they literally net you barely any points for anything except to waste your time until things happen outside.
6. Ladders are a real mess, some are placed above the roof slightly making it really hard to even start climbing down and sometimes launches you off the roof top and kills you.
7. Often times the photos point system is very inconsistent.
8. Monsters have severe short term memory and ADHD, if you want to lure a monster and you walk 3 feet too far, they just turn around and forget you ever existed.
9. A lot of the lighting is really really bad later levels, you get rooms that are soooo blue you can't even see half the stuff in the room due to how the light works.
Overall, foundation is really good and I think if the devs put the effort in then they could have a seriously popular game that would be worth more than they are asking for. I'll edit my review if and when things change, I think this game could have a promising future.
This game is pretty fun with friends, some of the moments are top notch. Die trying to snap a pic of Velociralien's coochie while having one leg and one arm, or the big Slender boi that likes to stomp like he just lost a ranked game. 10/10
Great game, especially if you have friends to play with. I enjoy how you get to danger level 2 and the godzilla comes out and blocks the road completely so you end up losing all of your chances then get fired and have to restart from the beginning again. I also enjoy when the military comes in to help and shoots a rocket launcher at a car near you and then die, not from the explosion but the car smashing you against a building, basically like a transformer twerking on you until your body parts fly all over the place all while hearing someone yell "GET ME OUT OF HERE" as a slab of concrete meets there face going mach speed.
Great game 11/10
The game really has potential, and I will probably check in on the game in time to see if it has lived up to it. The game really needs more than just photo taking. Lethal Company is built on watching your friends die in horrific ways while your running around getting scrap, Content Warning is literally you watching your shenanigans play out on the big screen. This game is just taking photos of some cool designed aliens that walk in straight lines and make your friend's arm fall off. If this game had something like a video editor where you could poorly edit together some short 5 second clips or if you had a news recording studio where you reacted as an anchor to your photos and short video clips then this game would be a fantastic improvement on the already good basis it has
Classic example of a potentially great party game brought down by posing as a roguelike.
And, like all games, the stamina system only detracts from gameplay, and offers nothing to benefit the experience.
You die in a level, you lose your high level camera, get no money, and then WILL fail the next attempt because you do not have a bonus to score from your camera. Tough luck, restart your lobby and sit through the boring first 3 levels to get back to anything interesting.
Also, in later levels it REALLY seems like a literal die roll of "does the big dino or slender man spawn to cause a lot of explosions, or do you get the big bat again, which does minimal explosions, and spends almost no time on the ground to pose near corpses / enemies to increase photo score.
Also,
The duplicate photo system sucks. Camera auto selecting the far left, aka MOST valuable photo after deleting something WILL result in you accidentally deleting your best photo on accident. Ridiculous to default to the left.
TLDR
This will be playable when it is added to R2Modman.
This game is quite fun overall, albeit it can be a bit repetitive even with the randomization each round. That being said, I have two major issues with The Headliners:
1) The use of AI isn't explicitly disclosed by the devs anywhere.
2) The game is horribly optimized, so much so that the invasion/boss sequences make my CPU and GPU usage and temperatures skyrocket despite my computer: (a) exceeding all of the spec recommendations, (b) capping the FPS to 60, and (c) turning off anti-aliasing.
I won't recommend the game until these kinks have been worked out. Hopefully sometime in the near future...
This game is great. Nothing makes you feel better than seeing your friend step on a manhole, get mauled and you take a selfie holding your friends severed leg.
Very good game ! I had no idea that being a journalist could be this fun !
10/10, would make a civilian walk on a landmine for content again !
Oh and, the devs are really active and works hard on the bugs and problems so give it a try !
This game is great. We go in, with 0 brain cells and have the best time.
The update, kinda ruined it??? Only one door to go into, and we take mad fall damage now. ;-; 1/10 was not expecting.
The game is super fun! Except we just found AI Generated art in it, that isn't disclosed. Really disappointed to find this. Cannot recommend on that principle. Such a shame because it's legitimately a super fun experience
Very fun game with friends. Couldn't stop laughing. 10/10! The emotes are great, the items are great, and the Gorilla booty! ( )I( )..Thick! *snap*snap*
Changing my review since they decided to add swearing to the NPCs. It was a good family game for us and now its not. If they make it so that you can mute NPCs in the settings then it will still be playable. Nothing has been said in response here or in discord so I guess the devs dont actually care. I played the game a fair amount and had over 40 hours, similar story for other family members I use to play with.
Considering the fact that it's not early access, very lacking in content.
The same 5-6 enemies, the same 5 maps, same interiors, very easy if you know what to do, no audio settings???, questionable performance sometimes and some other stuff.
While I do think it's fun with friends, I wouldn't recommend it in its current state.
Need some settings desperately.
No FOV slider (Default FOV seems to be roughly 40, extremely zoomed in.)
No V sync in game, terrible tearing. (Temp solution, forced through GPU program.)
No setting for head bobbing.
No Inverted mouse.
No audio settings.
As this game is launched as "Full release" is very concerning as the state of this game reflects a very early access build.
Poor Ai pathing. Very odd deaths (Seem to be related to the cars). Not that much content.
Until the settings been patched and information whether more content will be added or not, I can not recommend this.
