The Blackout Club

With a few small hiccups along the road that can probably be easily ironed out, and as long as you have patience in abundance, The Blackout Club is a good time. With never ending levels and missions to complete, and the interesting Stalker mode, the replay potential is sky high. If you have a small group of friends to play it with, it makes things that much better. Overall The Blackout Club offers a genuinely scary experience that is not only intense, but equally fun. Honestly, this is cooperative gameplay, with a dash of horror, at its absolute finest.

If you love the thrill and tension of stealth-based gameplay and going up against ever-increasing threats the longer you stay engaged, I think you’re really going to like what The Blackout Club has to offer. It took me a bit of time to warm up to the game and when it all eventually clicked, I started thinking that this might be the sleeper hit of the year.

The Blackout Club is an impressive design experiment, but with a very low budget production.

The Blackout Club manages to wedge itself into a crowded cooperative space with the use of clever tricks and an approachable atmosphere. But unless the developers build off this initial offering with new content to slice through repetition, it will soon get lost in the dark.

With up to four players, it’s a unique structure for multiplayer action. As it’s a stealth horror game communication is key, and it’s best played with people you know. [Issue#166, p.89]

The Blackout Club is a strong addition to the co-op horror genre. Enemies and gameplay are really well handled, and playing with friends is a brilliant experience. If the story was a little more in-depth and better paced, this might be considered unmissable. As it is, The Blackout Club is a worthwhile game if not an essential one.

The Blackout Club is what happens when a concept isn't executed well. Everything about the setting and lore should lead the game to be a surefire hit. But, with the lack of a main story path, painfully repetitive levels, and a torturously grindy progression system, The Blackout Club feels unbalanced, unpolished, and immensely unrewarding. The only thing saving it from being a complete waste of time is that communicating and working as a team, planning out your strategy can be enjoyable, although only in short bursts.

I like the game I just played a few hours but it is fun, but you have to be patient and extremely careful + quiet.

The Blackout Club has its heart in the right place but unfortunately is not pumping properly. This ultimately should have been a single player game, then maybe the concept of horror would’ve stuck around. The first 30 minutes (if you decide to play it) was probably the most tense is terms of true horror. If this concept was carried on throughout the game as a SP campaign only, I can see this being a real hit in the genre. Sadly, it tries too hard to push for multiplayer and if you decide to play it solo, it takes the fun factor from it.

The core of this game is fun and has a lot of potential. Sadly this game just feels way too unfinished and needlessly repetitive. The attempt at a live service game with so little content actually on offer is terrible. The game would have been much better with a handful of custom designed maps to create a fun campaign style experience. In the end it's a very weak attempt at a Dead By Daylight style live service game

This game has a lot of potential, and that's just it. The stalker feature is unique. The character models look more deformed than they do teenagers. The missions are randomized, but were excessively repetitive during my 3-day session with a friend. There was nothing that drew me back to the game, and within my community if they aren't playing with a friend, they aren't playing at all. The gameplay, if not repetitive is enjoyable. It elicited several jump scares out of us. It is easy for others to sabotage the game for everyone due to pure ignorance, as we're all learning (the Shape pursues everyone, even if others were non-violent and didn't commit sins). There are no checkpoints offered during missions, and when there are 3 separate tasks, it is frustrating to have to restart from the beginning. Would revisit with some polishing.