Deceit

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About

Deceit is a first person shooter horror survival game for multiple players. While you need to work as a team, things are not all what they seem and you can’t be too sure of who you trust! About the Game You find yourself regaining consciousness in the basement of an abandoned insane asylum, and hearing the Game Master’s voice, explaining that you need to try to escape. You are not alone, you are happy to discover, there are five others alongside you, in exactly the same position – or ...

Developer:

World Makers,

Publisher:

World Makers,

Release date:

2 March 2017

Genre:

Action, Indies,

Recent Steam reviews:

Mixed (217)

All Steam reviews:

Mostly positive (93330)

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Remote Play on Phone

Remote Play on Tablet

Xbox Controller Support

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Description

Deceit is a first person shooter horror survival game for multiple players. While you need to work as a team, things are not all what they seem and you can’t be too sure of who you trust!

About the Game

You find yourself regaining consciousness in the basement of an abandoned insane asylum, and hearing the Game Master’s voice, explaining that you need to try to escape. You are not alone, you are happy to discover, there are five others alongside you, in exactly the same position – or so you think!

However, two out of the six of you have been infected by the Game Master’s deadly virus and it is your job to try and take down the uninfected (known as the Innocent) without being spotted by the rest!

If you are an Innocent, you must try to travel from the basement, across three game areas, avoiding the infected – and the darker forms that are unleashed in the dark – and find the safety hatch that leads to freedom.

Along the way, you’ll find goodies that can help you – as will the infected! – and you must decide if you need it, and if so, how badly. You will have to collaborate with fellow innocents, or fight other players for them. Innocents need to try and work together to uncover who, in the group, is infected and vote them out, gathering defensive weapons and coming up with a survival plan that will see them safely through the safety hatch..

The Nitty Gritty

Every moment of interaction with a fellow player lets you know more about them, helping you decide if they’re trustworthy or not. The infected, in the meantime, are trying to gather blood bags, which give them powers, and are equally busy covering up their various bits of sabotage – and the environment has been designed to make you all doubt each other.

At several points in the game, and at the end of each zone, the approximate equivalent of a boss level, there is a blackout which allows the infected to transform into their ‘terror’ form, which is stronger, faster and has better night vision than the Innocents. Blackouts are, as they sound, darkened periods, when Innocents will need to use torches and cameras to navigate around and battle the Terrors. (See more about the Terrors below).

Innocents can end the blackout by putting a fuse into the fuse box (sometimes more than one is needed). Keep your eyes open for torches, camera, armour and other rewards that will help keep you safe from the Terrors when they are unleashed.

The fast paced combat and need for careful strategy in this game combine to make it compellingly fun to play. Pro tip: The innocents don’t know who is infected or not, but the infected do and will work hard to keep it that way!

Terrifying Terror Forms

Terror forms are what the Infected mutate into when there are blackouts and they have full blood bars. They take the form of monsters:

Werewolves: these monsters are fast but fragile. However, they can disorient you for up to 2 minutes with their howling

Vampires: fast and quite weak, but they can escape from light damage so you have to stay alert during blackouts

Yetis: these creatures are slow but very strong and take some bringing down

Spiders: exceedingly speedy, but with quite low health, these nasties spit webs that then draw things together inexorably

Experiments: these Frankensteinish monsters are good all-rounders and therefore tricky enemies to beat. They have high stamina and good speed, and, annoyingly can produce a decoy copy of itself that runs straight out at you, exploding into thick smoke after 5 secs or when ‘killed’, all of which gives it a chance to get away

Deceit is a great game for those who love jump scares and being suspicious of their friends and allies!