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Last Year is about the supernatural, and the killer at any time can go into Predator Mode. Each character has a specific set of abilities that you cannot change. These names equates their movement to be slow, medium, and fast. On the flip side, the one chosen killer can select between three psychopaths: Giant, Slasher, and Strangler.

Teamwork is what makes the dream work in Last Year: The Nightmare. There’s numerous weapons and items to craft, often dictated by the selected class, but all offer buffs, weapons, and improvements to your starting gear. This reduces each player unable to craft upgrades and additional gear at a faster pace. While it’s great for players to stick together in the early going, this means scrap is equally sparse for all players, and has to be split among the party. Crafting is a big part of the game, and there’s a limited amount of items in any given area. The medic is clearly the healer, and not meant to engage in combat directly, the scout detects the killer and can temporarily blind the killer, and the technician builds turrets to slow the killer at every chance they get. The assault class is combat focused, and designed to hold off the killer as long as possible or to the death. There is a limit of two characters per class, for balance and benefit of the team. This leaves room for one player to select to be a second of the same class. Once killers and survivors have been decided, players can then choose one of four classes: Assault, Medic, Scout, and Technician. If multiple opt to be the killer, one will be chosen at random from that pool. This unified lobby will either pick one of the players to be the killer at random, or players can opt-in to be the killer. While it is cliched, they are the perfect way to represent the different characters. Lobbies consist of six players, and tasks them to pick one of five playable high school characters: the jock, the nerd, the popular girl, the cool kid, and the geek.

I do wish it was portrayed as real-life, but as it is doesn’t hurt the vibe it has going. Last Year: The Nightmare is set in the technologically advanced year of 1996 on Halloween night, and takes place in a supernatural reality, an almost dream-like state. Last Year: The Nightmare a classic in the making, and the backbone to its horror doesn’t rely on any established material to be as good as it is.

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This is a 5 vs 1 asymmetrical multiplayer game where five teenagers must escape different maniacal forms of a serial killer similar to games that have come before it, but Last Year has enough twists and surprises to make it a cut above its competition. Last Year: The Nightmare is the result of a successful Kickstarter that ended four years ago, and that success continues into the released product from Elastic Games.

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