{"id":76505,"date":"2026-04-23T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76505"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:38:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:38:57","slug":"this-co-op-game-rethinks-a-classic-horror-movie-trope-and-its-finally-on-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=76505","title":{"rendered":"This Co-Op Game Rethinks A Classic Horror-Movie Trope, And It&#8217;s Finally On Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">What do movies like Don&#8217;t Breathe, Abigail, The Collector, and The People Under the Stairs all have in common? They all focus on criminals who break into the wrong place at the wrong time. Burglarizing a home or kidnapping someone for a ransom is already stressful work. It&#8217;s worse when the house you&#8217;re breaking into is haunted. That&#8217;s what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/dark-hours\/\">Dark Hours<\/a> is all about, and the former PC exclusive is finally on consoles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dark Hours is played in teams of up to four players, uses proximity chat, and sends you into haunted locales like a casino, a museum, and a cruise ship to break and enter, though it&#8217;s getting out alive that proves trickier. It might sound like another &#8220;friendslop&#8221; game in the style of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/repo\/\">REPO<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/yapyap\/\">YapYap<\/a>, but it actually predates those, having first hit Steam just before Halloween 2024. It then spent a year in early access and went 1.0 last fall. Now, it&#8217;s finally on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.<\/p>\n<p><video data-embed-type=\"video\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kP-FOQFTf6I\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\" data-embed-url=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FkP-FOQFTf6I%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DkP-FOQFTf6I&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FkP-FOQFTf6I%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My early impressions of the game are that it&#8217;s closer to something like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/payday-2\/\">Payday<\/a>, with a touch of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/phasmophobia\/\">Phasmophobia<\/a>, than it is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/lethal-company\/\">Lethal Company<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/content-warning\/\">Content Warning<\/a>, though if you&#8217;re the type to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do movies like Don&#8217;t Breathe, Abigail, The Collector, and The People Under the Stairs all have in common? They all focus on criminals who break into the wrong place at the wrong time. Burglarizing a home or kidnapping someone for a ransom is already stressful work. It&#8217;s worse when the house you&#8217;re breaking into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":76507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76508,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76505\/revisions\/76508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}