The co-op horror game REPO is, like Schedule I, a surprise indie hit. Released in February, it's got an "overwhelmingly positive" rating across more than 91,000 user reviews on Steam and remains near the top of its most-played chart: As I write this, nearly 170,000 people are playing.
In a new developer video diving into REPO's creation, semiwork's Pontus Sundström explains how it all came about, and the circumstances surrounding its creation were not particular fortuitous: Semiwork had spent six years working on its previous game, Voidigo, and while it also has an "overwhelmingly positive" rating on Steam, it wasn't a big seller. That left the studio in a spot where its future wasn't assured, and so its approach to REPO was a little bit different.
The idea for what REPO would become grew "organically" from there, while the team took sort of a learn-as-you-go approach to actually making the game because it was their first project made with Unity. That's also why the first content update, promised in March, is taking a little longer to arrive.
"We are still learning things as we go, and we want to make sure that we learn stuff the right way," Sundström says. "Which means that future updates after the first update will probably be released a little bit faster because we have a little more knowledge on things and how to do it."
Plans for that update, whenever it arrives, include various quality of life features, a new map, and a "duck bucket," a bucket you can put over the duck. Trust me, it's important.
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