https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqmqGh6cxvM
âHey, stop looking at my screen!â is a pretty common refrain when people are playing competitive multiplayer games in the same room. In Screencheat, itâs the only way to win.
The competitive multiplayer shooter may, at first glance, look like any other (albeit 17 million times more colorful), but thereâs a twist: everybody is invisible. So you have to glance at your opponentsâ screens or else youâll literally be firing blind. Screen Look Or Die would be an even more apt name, or at least a more immediately descriptive one.
Screencheat will be four-player, have modes ranging from deathmatch to âmurder mystery,â and it will allow you to beat someone to death with a candelabra. I really like the concept, especially as a game to play with friends in the same room. I can just imagine physically pushing people away or throwing my hand in front of their face as our characters strafe around and/or right past each other.
Itâll also be playable online, which sounds markedly less enjoyable. How do you even replicate to the maniacal fun of stealing a glance at someone elseâs screen when theyâre hundreds of miles away? Itâs the greatest mystery of our time. I hope developer Samurai Punk comes up with a good solution.
Screencheat will be out on Steam soon. For now, though, do you ever screen look? Come on now. Be honest. I used to do it occasionally in games like Goldeneye and the original Halo. Iâm a monster, I know, but at least Iâm now a recovering monster. Thatâs something, right?
