Steam's latest viral hit with a higher 24-hour player peak than Monster Hunter Wilds is a game about selling baggies of "OG Kush" to guys called Mick Lubbin
Steam's latest viral hit with a higher 24-hour player peak than Monster Hunter Wilds is a game about selling baggies of "OG Kush" to guys called Mick Lubbin
I probably don't need to tell you that it's gone down very well with streamers and YouTubers.
The game is Schedule 1.
Its weird to me how every viral hit looks janky as fuck. Suddenly a bunch of people on my friends list were playing this and I was confused when I looked at what it is. Now reading that its a youtuber thing somehow sort of explains it, I guess?
Imo that's how these things go almost 100% of the time.
New unknown game gets a ton of random hype around it insanely fast? Looks pretty jank and kind of barebones? Has some sort of party play/chat mechanic? Must be a YouTuber/streamer game.
Kinda like Lethal Company (and all other games like it), Intruder, Sub Rosa, Perfect Heist; and all those other asset flip type games. Hell even all those "store simulator" games that all look identical fall into this too.
Oh man I'm so sad shitty streamer culture and the toxicity it brought killed Sub Rosa. Played it a ton while it was still on version 0.07b and even more niche, later when the "world" mode was introduced and which got more popular than round mode it went downhill steadily with obnoxious players becoming the norm.
Apparently Revolver Digital pushing for updates from a one man team didn't help, either. I really hope CrypticSea will continue the game at some point but that seems unlikely. A truly unique game.
E: Also Intruder, which I'm not sure is still alive but might have some active community. Great game but very niche with bit of a learning curve.
Lethal company is good. The jankiness makes it more funny, and that's the developer's style, even before they got popular.
This game is a lot of fun. You can replace drug names with random names and it still will be fun. Especially if you start experimenting with mixing things and watching effects on you or your customers. There is nearly infinite mixes you can make, they vary with effects aplied to your player or to customer.
If you start oh it's game about drugs you can as well say FPS is about serial killers.
The game loop is not punishing you for anything if you don't want to. It have no ending just a big delivery sandbox with things you can deliver and amount you can produce. The city feels like Vice City suburbs.
Because there is no permanent kill in game, the people just fall asleep and come back next day like nothing happened and because of those mixes, game feels like you're in comic book.
But it's just my opinion
I'm impossibly addicted to this game. Haven't been this hooked since pandemic valheim/animal crossing. Beautiful executed, deliciously addictive. Go check it out.