Content material Warning, a co-op horror sport by which you and your folks go viral or die making an attempt, made a right away splash when it launched on Steam on April 1. To an extent, that was unsurprising—it was free for the primary 24 hours of launch—however I do not suppose many individuals foresaw that it could go fairly this massive: The Content material Warning workforce stated greater than 6.2 million folks claimed the sport on April Idiot’s Day, and it racked up a peak concurrent participant depend of over 204,000.
“It has been an actual deal with watching your whole movies and we’re so blissful that we have managed to create one thing that makes folks have enjoyable collectively,” the builders stated in an replace posted to Steam.
Content material Warning comes off at first look as one thing of a gag sport, and never simply due to its launch date. The trailer is fairly goofy, as is the entire sport premise, and there is form of a slapdash high quality to all of it—the type of factor that claims “made on a budget by guys in a rush.”
The preliminary response was very optimistic, although, maybe partially as a result of writer Landfall is thought for prior April 1 video games Completely Correct Battle Simulator and Knightfall: A Daring Journey—neither of them very severe, however each truly excellent.
And it is not simply that rep that carried Content material Warning. Employees author Morgan Park had sufficient of time together with his first run by means of it that he resolved to speak pals into enjoying it with him later. He additionally discovered (and I might suppose that is at the very least a part of its attraction) that regardless of its self-proclaimed horror styling, Content material Warning is absolutely “extra like a tacky actuality ghost searching present mixed with Jackass.” Which, frankly, feels like time to me.
The Content material Warning workforce acknowledged in its message that “there are many bugs and server points” to take care of, together with issues with voices, connection and internet hosting points, and issues with digital camera footage both not extracting or not being seen.
“We guarantee you that we’re engaged on it,” the workforce wrote. “Content material Warning is made by a really small workforce of devs (solely 5 folks) so fixes could take a short while however we promise you we’re doing our greatest to resolve the problems.”
Regardless of not being free, Content material Warning continues to do fairly nicely for itself. It is at the moment in seventh place on Steam’s most-played chart, with greater than 113,000 concurrent gamers, and it is acquired the sixth spot on the highest sellers chart. Not unhealthy for an April Idiot.