Game profile
Lethal Company
As underpaid company employees, players scavenge for scrap on alien moons while monstrous creatures lurk in the dark. The mix of slapstick humor and sudden horror makes it perfect for playing with friends.
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What kind of game this is
At its core this is Horror / Survival, set in a science fiction world. Visually it is deliberately stylised rather than photorealistic, and the overall tone stays somewhere between light and heavy. The structure is guided rather than open, so you are moved along instead of dropped into a map. It is built around short sessions, which makes it easy to pick up for half an hour.
The difficulty is moderate and fair, demanding attention without punishing you for it. There is no story to speak of, the systems carry everything. Co-op is supported, so you can bring someone along. It is available on one platform. It sits in the budget bracket.
What stands out
- Chaotic co-op humor
- Sudden jump scares
- Quota pressure system
This fits you if
- you actually want to be scared
- you are after a proper adrenaline rush
- you usually have thirty to sixty minutes and want that to be enough
- cutscenes annoy you and you just want to play
- you have someone to play with
- you are watching your budget
Look elsewhere if
- you play mainly for narrative
- you play alone, this needs other people
- you specifically want an open world to roam
- you want a game that fills a whole evening in one go
How long is Lethal Company?
About 30 hours in total. At three evenings a week and two hours each, you will be busy for roughly 5 weeks, or 15 sessions.
How the rating ranks
Critics settled on 85 out of 100, which puts it above 59 percent of the 1276 games here and at rank 468 overall. That is mid-table for this database. Not a standout at the top, but solidly rated.
For comparison, Horror averages 80 points across the database, so this one sits 5 points above its own genre. The figure rests on 221 collected ratings.
Released in 2023 and 3 years old. Recent enough to look and run modern, old enough to be patched and often discounted.
The facts
- Release year
- 2023
- Genres
- Horror, Survival
- Playtime
- approx. 30 hrs.
- Difficulty
- Moderate, fair
- Story weight
- None, pure gameplay
- Play with
- Co-op
- Setting
- Sci-fi
- Visual style
- Stylised
- Price bracket
- Budget
- Platforms
- PC
- Critic rating
- 85 / 100
Direct comparison
| Genres | Release year | Playtime | Critic rating | Price bracket |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lethal Company | 2023 | approx. 30 hrs. | 85 | Budget |
| Barotrauma | 2023 | approx. 40 hrs. | 85 | Budget |
| Dead Island 2 | 2023 | approx. 18 hrs. | 74 | Mid price |
| Dead Space (Remake 2023) | 2023 | approx. 13 hrs. | 89 | Mid price |
If you liked this, try these
- 85/100 Barotrauma Shared: Horror, Survival, Sci-fi
- 74/100 Dead Island 2 Shared: Horror, Survival, shorter
- 89/100 Dead Space (Remake 2023) Shared: Horror, Survival, Sci-fi, shorter
- 65/100 The Callisto Protocol Shared: Horror, Survival, Sci-fi, shorter
- 82/100 Phasmophobia Shared: Horror, Survival
- 67/100 Killing Floor III Shared: Horror, Survival, Sci-fi, longer