
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
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Species: Unknown is a first-person survival horror game, playable in co-op with up to 4 players (private or public servers) or solo. You play as a mercenary sent aboard an abandoned spaceship. Your job? Execute high-risk contracts, make it out alive, and claim your reward. But keep in mind that you’re not alone. Something is hunting you…
Form a squad of up to 4 players to take on different contracts with escalating difficulty. Each mission plays differently depending on your objective, your teammates, the map and which of the 5 intelligent threats is stalking you. No one survives alone, but you can try.

Proximity Chat & Radio are available: distance matters, walls matter. Proximity Chat is bringing more tension, sometimes chaos, and unforgettable moments to your co-op sessions.

Every contract drops you into a different nightmare. Whether you're tasked with extracting a black box, capturing or eliminating an unknown threat, or even destroying the ship to prevent the creature from escaping… Each mission demands a specific strategy and none of them are easy.
The specimen is chosen procedurally from a growing roster of terrifying monsters. Each one comes with distinct behaviors, hunting patterns, strengths, and weaknesses. You’ll need to investigate your surroundings to gather vital clues and identify the threat in order to proceed smoothly (or not). Do your job and get rewarded, or die without anyone knowing.

Strategize as a group, make smart use of your tools that can turn the tide, if only for a moment:
Motion Tracker : Detect nearby movement and prepare for what's coming
Shield : Block deadly attacks and buy time for your team
Health Syringe : Heal yourself or allies in the heat of battle
Mini-Map : Navigate pitch-black corridors with real-time positional data
Guns won’t always save you. Some threats are too resistant or simply untouchable. But the right weapon, found at the right time, can help you push through or even take the creature down.

The higher the risk, the higher the reward. Completing contracts earns you credits you can use to:
Upgrade your gear
Buy new tools
Customize your appearance
Gather lore and build your own creature museum
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian
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Hours played at review time, across 184 reviews with recorded playtime.
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this is an absolute blast to play with friends. it looks amazing and it runs great too. there's so much variety that you can play for hours on end and the game isn't even close to done. I'm so excited to see what direction the developers take this gem.
Охуенная игра, 10 терминаторов из 10 на спавн монстров
Lost my save at complete random after playing for multiple weeks with friends, they are all fully upgraded and still have their profiles intact while I am the only odd one out with my upgrades and character profile fully reset. Game is fun and scary but losing a mass amount of progress like this is NOT a good thing.
TLDR: You can get the robot to suck you off Once you shoot his core enough times, he'll shut down temporarily, that is when you can assert your dominance and get him to suck you off while he is in the kneeling position, repeat a few more times till he explodes and falls flat on his face, this is when you can come from behind and finish. Prob the most fun I've had in a long time. 11 out of 10, would recommend.
If you have an OLED monitor, [b]this is the benchmark.[/b] The best looking game I have played on my OLED monitor that I've owned for 3 years. No native HDR support yet, but it works very well with RTX HDR.
5$ a aldım destek paketinide aldım, Grafikler efsane, oynanış efsane, uzun süredir böyle korkutan ve eğlendiren bir oyun bulamadık piyasada, karakteri özelleştirme detaylı, canavarlar çeşitli ve oynanış her zaman farklı bu yüzden sıkılmıyoruz, bide arkaya soundpad açıp recep ivedik temasıyla basıyoruz ortalığı 4 kişi birlikte. oynaması çok zevkli oynunu anlayınca efsane varya çok eğlenceli, UI çok basit benden 8/10 valla 2 puanı kırmamın sebebi henüz silah güncellemesinin tam gelmemesi, Daha çok canavar daha çok silah daha çok ekipman gelince puanım 9-9.5 olacak!!! şuan ki fiyatı kesinlikle çok düşük bi 10-15$bandında olmalı ama saolsunlar şuan bütçe dostu tutuyorlar 5$ a alın ALDIRIN, ve destekleyin
Cute fun game better on mouse and keyboard I find but defo good fun
I've been really enjoying **Species: Unknown** so far. The gameplay feels great, the atmosphere is excellent, and the map design is really fun to explore. The game has a lot of potential. My biggest suggestion for future updates would be to focus on replayability. I think the game would benefit a lot from procedurally generated ship layouts, so each run feels different instead of becoming repetitive after a while. It would also be great to have randomized weapon spawns, corpse locations, points of interest, and different territory layouts. That kind of variety would make every expedition feel fresh and unpredictable. Personally, I'd rather see the developers focus on adding new ships and improving procedural generation before adding new species. More environments and greater replayability would add much more long-term value to the game. Overall, it's a fantastic game, and I'm excited to see where it goes. Keep up the great work!
This game really has huge potential. It certainly hasn’t reinvented the wheel, but it’s definitely given it a fresh polish. The game combines horror with a whole lot of fun – but only provided you have at least one friend to play it with (imo). The graphics are good, the sound is good, the game is good. Of course, it’s not perfect. After 20 to 30 hours (depending on how much you trust your skills and whether that turns out to be justified in the end), you’ll have achieved everything there is to achieve. There isn’t really any long-term investment of your in-game currency. There are perks and a shop, but you’ll quickly max them out. That doesn’t mean it stops being fun, though. The shop, the perks and the map provide a really solid foundation. Of course, you’d like to see more species and a new map – more variety overall. But the developers have already announced that more is on the way. For a small studio, it’s a really brilliant game with plenty of untapped potential. So if you’ve got €10 and 1–3 friends, it’s a good investment.
peak game to run with your goated friends
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