
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 193 reviews with recorded playtime.
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I have a certain philosophy when I purchase video games: If I can get an hour per £1 spent, then it was a good purchase. In this case, at £8.50 whilst writing this, I've almost doubled it, and I'm not even close to done. Species Unknown succeeds in most of the things it attempts to do. It's setting is dark, eerie and claustrophobic. The specimens - six, at the time of writing - are a diverse bunch that force a change in playstyle with each run of the ship, and you don't know exactly which monster it is until you've arrived, adding a mystery element that drives up tensions whilst exploring. Whilst the ships layout never changes, the spawns of weapons and objectives do, and this randomness forces you into new parts of the ship and immerses you into the setting. It's worth emphasizing just how immersive this ship is. The more you pay attention, the more you discern that there was indeed a story here, one that I hope is added or explored upon in more detail later in the games life. The game has few problems, and most could be attributed to early access. But the most notable one is the games heavy reliance on the "unknown" aspect of its design, Since the more you play the more you learn, time played can heavily diminish the atmosphere on future runs. This, crucially, does not diminish the gameplay though, which is in my opinion gripping in both solo and co-op thanks to the varying modifiers and mission types you can choose from. I have only encountered one bug in my time playing, and this was an audio error with the games proximity chat in co-op. It was fixed by restarting the game, and I haven't heard from it since. Ultimately, I can't recommend this game enough, especially at it's current price tag. It's a game for horror fans first, but also just a generally fantastic, immersive game for small friend groups of 2-4 who want to laugh at each others misfortunes. You'll likely laugh at your friends who accidently trapped themselves in with the beast, right before doing the same yourself. As it stands, the devs are due to add another setting to the game by the end of the year according to their road map, and subtle hints in game suggest more specimens are yet to come. There is clearly passion behind the scenes of this game. Support it, and enjoy it.
Great game. I already unlocked everything. Too bad is short. You can fisnished it inm 3 days or even less.
IF YOU LIKE SCFI/HORROR BUY THIS GAME! YES THE CONTENT IS A LITTLE LIMITED AS IT IS ON ONE BIG SHIP, BUT WHAT IT LACKS IN LEVEL VARIETY IT MAKES UP IN CREATURES AND INTENSITY. ALSO GRAPHICS ARE AAA. SUPPORT THIS GAME!
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.
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Great so far
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Fun
fun as hell me and two of my mates had a whole movie moment tring to destroy the station while running from a robot with a minigun
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