In 2016, a first person shooter called Devil Daggers (opens in a new tab) appeared in Steam. It could have been the theme of a high school student’s creepypasta: a game so demonic that most people only survive a few seconds, and no one has ever seen the ending, if there is one. After several hours of play, my survival record in Devil Daggers is only 70 seconds. How can you take such a concept to the next level?
Hyper Demon, a surprise sequel to Devil Daggers that was released on Steam (opens in a new tab) Today, he has the answer: a game so demonic that it is possible to survive for less than zero seconds.
Instead of counting the seconds until you die like in Devil Daggers, Hyper Demon starts counting down down 10 seconds when the game starts. If the world didn’t dissolve when I intentionally hit a low score of about 30 negative seconds, it could theoretically be infinitely bad in Hyper Demon. That’s an escalation.
To finish with a positive score in Hyper Demon, you have to kill the demons he throws at you as fast as you can. Death is easier to avoid in Hyper Demon than it is in Devil Daggers – I would have already broken my Devil Daggers record if Hyper Demon counted the seconds up instead of down – but so far it seems like it’s just as hard to record a score. high in this version of the concept focused on deaths. The world record right now is 368.
Just like in Devil Daggers, you can watch a replay of any race on the leaderboard, and I have no idea what the player is doing in the record race: They air-sling through hellish space incomprehensibly , using weapons that I don’t even know how to get. It appears that a Quake pro has infiltrated Satan’s quantum computer.
I recognize Some of what the best Hyper Demon player sees, including red “holographic” images that warn you of enemies approaching from behind, and the wildest feature, a dynamic field of view that can go up to 180 degrees, which makes it seems that the world is reflected in a silver orb in front of you.
As you can imagine, it’s a lot to take in, although it hasn’t made me dizzy. I don’t have the feeling of navigating in real 3D space, but of gliding through light. I’m Matthew McConaughey on Interstellar, except I’ve got a wizard’s gun and no patience for five-dimensional aliens.
(To me, it looks more disorienting in videos and gifs than it actually feels in the game, but if I’m wrong, I can’t think of a more valid use of Steam’s refund system than feeling bad.)
What’s more, at the end of the word record race, the player appears to… win? Unlike Devil Daggers, Hyper Demon promises an ending, if you can get to it. Or maybe, if it reaches you
Hyper Demon Embraces His Mystique: It’s “A Pearl Of Lightning,” Steam Page (opens in a new tab) he says, “a dream of the future,” “a drop of poison,” and “a swan song.”
“The faster you kill demons, the harder the game will be and the higher your score will be,” says developer Sorath. “There is an end. You will see?”
I guess that will be decided by the Hyper Demon. It’s 15 dollars.