Co-op horror game Lethal Company costs $10 and is outselling Call of Duty on Steam

Lethal Company has proved that you don't need fantastic graphics and a big budget to scare the living daylights out of people. 

Lethal Company, the new indie horror game from developers Zeekerss, is receiving unanimous praise from gamers and critics alike. Its simple co-op survival formula provides a fun and addictive experience, despite the dread and the jump scares.

I think it’s safe to say we’re all pretty much aware of Lethal Company by now, even if you haven’t played it. The indie co-op horror game seemed to come from nowhere, yet it’s still dominating the charts on Steam, besting some AAA releases.

Once again, Valve's Steam Deck was the biggest selling item on Steam.

Lethal Company is a new indie horror that scares us in ways we didn't think were possible.

Steam’s surprise hit Lethal Company has a lot going for it in terms of scare factor. There are the creepy exomoons, the claustrophobic corridors, and even the possibility that even your teammates will turn on you just to make the quick buck needed to meet a quota.

Lethal Company players are attempting to work out the AI behaviour that governs one of the game's most dangerous foes.

It’s a heck of a time, running through an abandoned bunker in the dark with nothing but a hazmat suit on your back and three of your closest buds at your side. Oh wait, that’s not your closest bud at all – it’s a grotesque, white-eyed monster eating their corpse and using their body like a puppet. Welcome to Lethal Company, a co-op survival horror game that’s all about digging deep into the (procedurally-generated and largely haunted) crevasses of exoplanetary human history for loot, which your party of up to four companions will need to figure out how to safely transport back to your ship and eventually sell to your eldritch bosses at the end of each round. This is a simple but highly enjoyable premise, and thankfully, there’s enough chaos decking the halls of its current early access version to sink an entire weekend into its depths without realizing you’ve done so. But, even with such a riveting loop and plenty of monsters to make it satisfyingly treacherous, Lethal Company does still feel like the work-in-progress it is thanks to its janky graphics and having little-to-no story to carry it.

Lethal Company, a new indie co-op horror game that was released into early access in October, has seen a huge spike in players over the past few weeks.

Lethal Company is a surprise hit, but not because it is the most fun walk in the park one can have. It is an invitation to a scavenger hunt in Hellish moons, a game where even a great team shouldn’t have too high hopes of surviving the hardest levels with no casualties.

From seemingly out of nowhere, a new co-op indie horror game called Lethal Company has been the centre of attention on Steam in recent days.

One of my favorite indicators that Lethal Company is popping off right now isn’t the fact that the co-op horror game is the highest-rated Steam release of 2023; it’s the goofy clips across Twitter and TikTok that show you exactly why.