Lurch
Lurch – A Multiplayer Horror Experience
Introduction:
Embark on a terrifying multiplayer horror adventure with your friends in Lurch. Find yourselves trapped in a nightmarish world where your only hope of survival lies in completing tasks and escaping the clutches of a malevolent demon. Are you and your friends brave enough to face the darkness and conquer your fears?
Gameplay:
In Lurch, you and your friends will spawn in a chilling map, fully aware of the imminent danger lurking in the shadows. Your objective is clear: complete a series of tasks within the haunted house to unlock your escape route and ultimately finish the game. Work together, communicate, and strategize effectively to outsmart the demon and survive the night. Be cautious, every step may be your last.
Challenging Tasks and Sinister Puzzles:
Prepare to be tested mentally and emotionally as you encounter a range of tasks and puzzles throughout the house. From deciphering cryptic clues to repairing broken mechanisms, your survival depends on your ability to think quickly and work as a team. Each completed task brings you one step closer to freedom, but be warned, the demon’s presence grows stronger with every passing moment.
Immersive Multiplayer Experience:
Lurch shines in its multiplayer mode, allowing you and your friends to join forces against the malevolent forces that plague the house. Collaborate, coordinate, and share crucial information using in-game communication systems. Trust is essential, as your very lives depend on each other’s actions. Only the most fearless and cohesive teams will conquer the darkness and emerge victorious.
A Haunting Atmosphere:
Prepare to be engulfed in a bone-chilling atmosphere that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Lurch combines haunting visuals, atmospheric sound effects, and a spine-tingling musical score to deliver an immersive horror experience like no other. Every creak, whisper, and flickering light will heighten the sense of dread as you navigate the treacherous house.
Features:
- Unpredictable AI: Experience a dynamic and ever-changing threat as the demon’s behavior adapts to your actions, keeping you on your toes.
- 3 Difficulty Modes: Tailor the game to your preferred level of challenge, whether you’re a horror novice or a seasoned survivor.
- Replayability: With a variety of tasks, puzzles, and multiple possible outcomes, Lurch offers high replay value, ensuring each playthrough feels fresh and suspenseful.
- Multiplayer for up to 4 players: Join forces with friends or other players to form a cooperative team of survivors, enhancing the thrill and teamwork required to escape.
- Skill Tree: Unlock unique abilities and upgrades for your characters through a skill tree system, allowing for personalized gameplay styles and strategic decision-making.
Summary:
Will you and your friends escape the clutches of the demon, or will you succumb to its sinister presence? Lurch offers a heart-pounding multiplayer horror experience, demanding bravery, teamwork, and quick thinking. Enter the haunted house, complete the tasks, and confront your deepest fears. Can you prevail and survive the night?
Game Discussion
Steam User 6
This was not bad, I guess?
The puzzles weren't too obscure and were generally okay to figure out.
You spend the whole time doing puzzles while the demon periodically gives you a little slap.
Should we talk about his gigantic shlong, though?
Steam User 0
As an early release game at $10 that needs a lot of work around a really cool concept (imagine Phasmophobia or similar ghost-hunting/detective game, remove the detective bit, add in puzzles to solve to escape from the ghost). The difficulty selections are nice too and I was able to beat each of them on the one map available at time of posting with a team size of 2 (me and a friend). We played for over 3 hours and were having a good time with it. The XP system to unlock perks on the skill tree is pretty cool too and offers replayability.
Some things to note:
-The Hide button (H) does not work anywhere. Even on closets you can open/close the doors of. So you have to consistently run from the AI enemy that quickly learns patterns of how you try and lose line of sight.
-The AI enemy, on a couple occassions, actually opened the combination door (the one that lets you escape) for us and we were able to escape without completing all tasks.
-Not necessarily a problem for me, but there are many popular assets used in this game.
-The XP earned from some tasks is odd. Example: the wiring puzzle awards you a "task completed" for each connection you make; whereas the laser maze needs to completed fully to get a singular "task completed". These need to be more uniform and then XP balanced as such.
-The music on the audio slider doesn't impact the audio of the main menu, you have to lower "Sound Effects" instead.
So again, great concept, fun, but needs some work to take it to the next level so the future maps/content that comes out will attract returning players and new ones too.