The crowdfunding campaign for the indie horror game Last Year wraps up this week, yet with three days left, it’s already a massive success. The gargantuan amount of support it’s received on Kickstarter, where it’s raised just over $83,000 — well exceeding its modest $50,000 goal — means there’s a definite audience out there for slasher games.
For the unfamiliar, Last Year is an asymmetrical multiplayer game in the same vein as Evolve, Damned and The Flock. In it, a group of five player-controlled teens must survive against a psychopath who’s also player-controlled.
Last Year is part of a wave of slasher games we have to look forward to in 2015 — here’s our rundown of the rest. This is good news for us for a couple reasons. This is very much an experimental game, and the warm reception it’s seen from the gaming community should go a long way in showing there’s a market for even more asymmetrical multiplayer horror games, as well as other slasher games like Until Dawn, Summer Camp and Splatter Camp.
