New Co-Op Horror Game on Steam Fixes Lethal Company's Biggest Flaw

One of the main reasons Lethal Company became one of Steam's biggest co-op horror stories is because it took what could have been a complicated, inaccessible idea and turned it into something that almost anyone could easily understand. It gave groups of friends a simple job, sent them into disgusting moons for scrap, and let proximity chat turn every horrible little mistake into the kind of moment they would then want to share with their followers on social media. There's a reason that game blew up the way it did, but another co-op horror game coming soon to Steam, The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, is interesting because it seems to understand the one place that kind of co-op horror can eventually start to run out of gas.