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
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.
Lethal Company has one of the best sound designs in a modern game and I never see anyone really talking about how sound, especially voice chat, is utilized in the game. It was just "haha funny scp game make streamer peepee pants" for a bit and then it just disappeared from discussions except when being mentioned as a streamer fad.
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.
This is the first I've heard of it outside the steam store, but it's already on my wishlist.
Some Ordinary Gamer made a video about it yesterday too.
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
The strain that we're selling seems to turn people's skin black, so the whole town is black now.
Except the cops, who seem to attack the nearest NPC the moment that they give up chasing you. I was sad to see poor Peter File gunned down because I made it back to the grow house...
That effect is called 'Tropic Thunder' which is a reference to RDJs role in the movie by the same name.
My friends and I were playing and our best strain was called "White Dick" so our phones looked like we were running a male prostitution ring for a while.
Recently made a super profitable cocaine mix called 'Slimy Dick' and I have laughed every time and order comes in via text. 'Yo dawg I'm looking for x1 Slimy Dick.'