R.E.P.O. is Steam's latest viral horror despite its high mate requirement - but the devs are working on matchmaking
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Summary
Whilst R.E.P.O currently sits at the top of the Steam charts, the game requires five players to engage in co-op extraction, which the author notes is a “biblical quantity of mates”
Fortunately, developer Semiwork is planning to introduce public or private matchmaking, albeit with a disclaimer that this is new ground for their server coding
Other forthcoming features include a new museum level, a border at extraction points and a bucket that can be popped over a duckling character to prevent it from impeding gameplay.
The author also shares some insights from a Russian literary theorist’s concept of ‘chronotope’ as it might relate to social extraction games.
