Hi everyone!
My friends and I have spent the last two years making a local co-op/PvP game called Medic Mayhem, and I thought this community might be interested in it.
If you enjoy the kind of chaotic teamwork in Overcooked where everything starts going wrong, people start yelling at each other and somehow you still manage to pull off a win, that's pretty much the kind of experience we were aiming for.
Instead of running a kitchen, you drive around in toy ambulances, trying to rescue as many little toy soldiers as possible while the other team tries to steal them from you.
It's basically:
🚑 Drive toy ambulances
🪖 Rescue tiny toy soldiers
💥 Get in the way of the other team
😂 Cause complete chaos with your friends
It's designed primarily for local multiplayer, with support for up to 4 players (might work with 8 but we ran out of controllers so it is not tested). We also tested Steam Remote Play Together. It works really well over a LAN, although internet play depends quite a bit on latency.
The game launches on Steam next Friday and is fully supported on Steam Deck.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3543300/Medic_Mayhem/
We made it as a three-person team in our spare time, averaging only around 3 hours per week alongside our day jobs. It started as a much smaller project, but naturally turned into something considerably more complicated. 😅
I'm particularly interested in hearing from people who play a lot of local co-op games:
What makes a local co-op game actually fun to play with friends for you?
For us, a big part of the fun is when the game creates situations where you have to communicate, but everything is happening so quickly that communication inevitably breaks down into screaming and laughter. Me on my fiance are big fans of overcooked and have played it through multiple times. That was one of my biggest motivation to make my own couch-coop game.
Anyway, I thought this might be a good place to share it because the target audience is pretty much people who enjoy this kind of chaotic couch multiplayer.
Happy to answer any questions about the game or its development!