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An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Consensus
A77.4/100
Steam players96% positiveOverwhelmingly Positive426,273 reviews
VG Insights estimate ↗≈20.8M copies · ≈$154M gross
What creators say
What players say
A physics-based online co-op horror looter for up to 6 players where the team hauls fragile valuables (and each other) to an extraction point while proximity-voice-chatting and dodging monsters, with shop upgrades between randomized levels.
R.E.P.O. Players love it as a cheap, hilarious, friend-group chaos generator in the vein of Lethal Company. Critic coverage is thin (PC Gamer early-access impressions, Vice praise; Metacritic has only one critic review so no score), and it won Best Early Access Game at the Golden Joystick Awards in Nov 2025. It is still Early Access (launched Feb 26, 2025; devs originally estimated about 1.5 years) and is actively updated (v0.4.0 in May 2026 added cosmetics, a shop redesign, a racing mode and items). The most visible current complaints, from recent negative Steam reviews, are difficulty and RNG for small groups and solo players, plus server/timeout problems, rather than anything about the core loop.
Players love
- Physics-driven looting is the core joke and the core challenge: every object has weight and can break, so carrying a piano or sofa through a doorway becomes a team puzzle
- Emergent, story-generating chaos with friends (accidental deaths, friendly fire, using teammates as projectiles, cart mishaps) is the most repeated reason for positive reviews
- Proximity voice chat makes monsters that react to noise and speech part of the comedy and tension
- Very low price ($9.99) for the amount of fun; reviewers call it great value
- Easy to learn: mechanics are simple enough that friends pick it up within a run
- Charming, slightly cute-creepy art and tone that mixes horror with slapstick
- Shop/upgrade loop between levels plus varied maps and many enemy types keeps runs from feeling linear
- Reviewers see strong Early Access potential
- No microtransactions promised, regular quality updates and no bad update since launch per long-time reviewers
Common complaints
- Balance and fairness: players say many deaths feel like bad luck or instant one-shots rather than their own mistakes, especially with tougher tier-3 monsters appearing very early
- Huntsman AI is called inconsistent, sometimes shooting the nearest player instead of the noise source, with complaints it is worse when hosting
- Solo play and small groups are described as punishing; one bad situation can force a full restart, and recent changes are said to hurt single-player
- Recent updates are accused of adding many new monsters of uneven quality (some trivial, some frustrating, e.g. a fast ghost and a bug that locks out defending) and spawning multiple enemies near the player at once
- Server timeout issues where matches close on their own, plus regional connection and visual bugs reported in the Steam community
- Motion sickness complaints: heavy head bob/sway and no FOV option
- Some long-term players say the game has declined since the October 2025 update, with new monsters raising difficulty more than adding interesting challenge
Can feel tedious
- Restarting at level 1 repeatedly after unlucky runs; one reviewer described replaying level 1 ten times before reaching level 2
- Reliance on luck for shop stock and item spawns, which can gate progression
- Solo runs feeling too dangerous and slow, with vehicles awkward to loot with
- A Steam community thread complains the game becomes time-consuming too quickly
- Weapon-less early rounds: hiding spots reportedly fail and monsters find you, so early levels feel like hide-and-hope until weapons randomly appear in the shop
What's unique
- Fully physics-based valuables that degrade in value when knocked around, so handling items carefully is the scoring mechanic, not just grabbing loot
- Horror-comedy co-op with up to 6 players, larger than most Lethal Company-like games
- Dead players can be carried back to extraction and revived, leading to a lot of dark teammate-handling humor
- Robot-themed setting with permanent upgrades bought at a Service Station using in-game currency, and monsters that also obey physics
- Roguelike run structure with randomized room layouts, item placement and enemy distribution, now with cosmetics and a racing mode
Players want
- Add a difficulty slider or host options for monster spawns/tiers so mixed-skill groups and solo players can tune the experience
- Rebalance early levels so tier-3 monsters do not appear before players have tools and upgrades
- Rework Huntsman detection (clear audio warning before firing, always target the sound source) similar to Lethal Company's eyeless dogs
- Add accessibility options: FOV slider and reduced head bob/camera sway
- Improve server stability and fix match timeouts and regional connection issues
- Reduce RNG punishment in shop spawns and make solo-friendly tools (revive item, vehicles) more accessible; give solo players smaller, sturdier cargo and solo-tuned monsters
Summarised from Steam reviews and community discussion.
Steam tags
HorrorOnline Co-OpMultiplayerComedyCo-opPhysics3DFirst-PersonStealthAction
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Tier list Part 5 (2026)
R.E.P.O. is a first-person co-op horror game from the makers of Void Go where players scavenge loot, haul it to a truck, and use the earnings to buy items and permanent upgrades across increasingly dangerous levels. He admits it is only a roguelike to an extent and was included partly for its popularity. He loves it in co-op thanks to proximity chat and chaotic clunkiness, but finds the single player disappointing and the underlying design basic. He settles on top of B tier.
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