
A fast-paced 4-player cooperative puzzle game where your success helps your teammate, not yourself. Solve memory challenges, pattern recognition tasks, and coordination puzzles under time pressure—but the points you earn go to the player next to you. Trust your team or watch everyone fail.
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Dependium throws four players into a high-pressure coordination challenge where individual skill means nothing without teamwork. Each player faces their own rapidly rotating series of cognitive puzzles, memory tests, pattern recognition, shape matching, and reflex challenges. But there's a twist: the points you earn don't go to you.
Every puzzle you solve helps your team. Every puzzle you fail hurts them. When a teammate hits zero, they're out—and the entire team feels the loss.
Four players. Four corners. Four different puzzles happening simultaneously.
You can watch your teammates struggle with their challenges in real-time, but you can't help them directly. All you can do is solve your own puzzle fast enough to keep them alive.
Health constantly drains. The clock never stops. Teamwork is everything.
Asymmetric Cooperation - Succeed together by helping the person next to you, creating a chain of mutual dependence
Split-Screen Spectating - Watch all four players simultaneously as they race against individual challenges
Rotating Minigames - Memory tests, color matching, shape recognition, pattern recall, and coordination challenges
Escalating Pressure - Constant health drain and increasing difficulty force faster decision-making
Boss Fight Sequences - Periodic synchronized challenges that require all four players to coordinate perfectly
No AI Teammates - This is a real multiplayer experience requiring four human players
Dependium requires exactly four players. No bots. No single-player mode. If you don't have three friends, use the matchmaking to find strangers who are just as likely to let you down.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English*, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek +18 more
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Yo im in the trailer.
SUPER fun game. Friends will become enemies, enemies will become friends, and will humble you when you think you're the best thing since sliced bread. Definitely a good game to play with friends and will leave you addicted!
Im not a big puzzle-game guy, but this ♥♥♥♥ is so rad, It quickly became a party favorite among my crew. We just leave up and people will drop and join as they see fit. It's nice to be able to track your cognitive decline in real time. Also nice for fostering fast, efficient, communication in small-group settings (we're all cooks). ...For most of us, anyways. Get your ♥♥♥♥ together, Chris.
For me it felt like I had a bit of a learning curve at first but then it was super fun and engaging to try and figure out all the puzzles and gameplay mechanics to get a good score for my team.
Very interesting concept of teamwork. I love that you are not in control of your own life, but the life of your teammates. The games bosses are also quite unique, and did lead to some pretty funny moments when my buddies and I played. Looking forward more games from the creator.
This is a fun, inexorably engaging skill testing game that not only forces you to push your brain's faculties to their limits, but also fosters comradery from your reliance on the ability of your teammates to similarly push their brain's faculties to the same limits.. or they don't, and you fail, and everyone laughs! A great game for friend groups that are looking for some fast fun that can be jumped into quickly, with a spectrum of different skill testing minigames that can also reveal where your senses are keenest (or perhaps, more frequently, weakest).
This is a game concept that I have never seen before, and it's very engaging. You have to balance your concentration, intelligence, and reflexes in challenging, but engaging ways. The social aspect makes for a fun time as well, since your actions impact others directly and indirectly. This is a fun time!
It's like if they combined mario party mini games and yelling at your teammates to heal you
It's a game that is best played with people you don't need to love the next day. They will let you down! Deceptively simple gameplay loop, with unique 'boss' challenges.
This game is mentally brutal and brilliant at the same time. A group of friends and I took turns playing, and we had a great time both helping and ultimately letting each other down. The build-up to the boss levels is intense, and the boss fights are seriously challenging. So much fun.
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