Lethal Company
Games review
As of Jun 23, 2026, Lethal Company is rated 97% positive on Steam (509,096 reviews).
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Is Lethal Company worth it in 2026?
A 97% positive rating across 509,096 Steam reviews is not a fluke, Lethal Company has genuinely founded its own genre of co-op extraction horror-comedy, built on an art style and atmosphere reviewers describe as infectious, a soundtrack that earns genuine praise, and a price point that repeatedly gets called dirt cheap. The humor lands because proximity chat turns every monster encounter into shared chaos, and that combination of genuine scares and involuntary laughter is the game's real achievement. The base game, however, is finite: repetitiveness sets in quickly, official updates are slow, and the modding community is carrying the content load the developer hasn't delivered, meaning what you're buying at launch is closer to a foundation than a complete product.
Groups of three or four friends who own microphones, can coordinate session times, and are willing to install mods once the base game's limited content wears thin, which it will.
The friend-and-microphone requirement is a hard prerequisite, not a soft suggestion: without it, most of the game's value evaporates. Lobby connection problems can burn time before you even start, vanilla content grows repetitive fast, and mods are a practical necessity for longevity rather than an
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Pros
- fun with friends22
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- Fun game to play with friends, not too scary, relatively skilled gameplay
- Best online co-op survival-horror game ever made. Had a bunch of fun playing this with friends!
- Great game to play with your friends, as well both scary and hilarious. It's a good mix of both!
- humor and scares7
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- Great game to play with your friends, as well both scary and hilarious. It's a good mix of both!
- Super fun game to play with friends, sometimes spooky, sometimes just chill.
- Bought this game expecting to collect scrap and make money. Instead, my friends and I screamed at random objects for 10 minutes because we thought they were monsters. We made $43 w...
- mods enhance experience5
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- Amazing game to play with friends, We just mess around basically the whole time and its extremely fun. Monsters make it difficult so its not always easy. Many mods too from thunder...
- Good game, it's super fun even with just two people playing, I would recommend mods though as it adds more to the experience. Monsters are scary, atmosphere is on point. It is a bi...
- Needs more content, but great game. Does kinda get repetitive and boring quick, carried by mods, but VERY funny moments with the proximity chat
- strong art and atmosphere4
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- Lethal Company is probably my favorite game of this genre, the art style and vibes are amazing and have infected my mind beyond just playing it. As of writing the game is still...
- The game founded its own genre, what else is there to say. Fun gameplay, great art direction, great OST(no kidding). It's dirty cheap, so buy it and have some fun with your friends...
- Good game, it's super fun even with just two people playing, I would recommend mods though as it adds more to the experience. Monsters are scary, atmosphere is on point. It is a bi...
- ongoing updates anticipated3
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- Lethal Company is probably my favorite game of this genre, the art style and vibes are amazing and have infected my mind beyond just playing it. As of writing the game is still...
- I play this everyday, and all day. I live, I breathe, and I taste Lethal Company. I go to sleep wondering whenever I can play the game again, and I dream of playing Lethal Company...
- lethal company is my current special interest and let me tell you this game has kept me invested way too much. ive been struggling to enjoy the things i used to love, but this game...
Cons
- poor solo experience4
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- The game founded its own genre, what else is there to say. Fun gameplay, great art direction, great OST(no kidding). It's dirty cheap, so buy it and have some fun with your friends...
- It's the most fun a game can be that has no more than a 10-15 minute gameplay loop, but of course is held back for this same reason. Not at all balanced for solo and is completely...
- lethal company is my current special interest and let me tell you this game has kept me invested way too much. ive been struggling to enjoy the things i used to love, but this game...
- gets repetitive quickly3
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- Needs more content, but great game. Does kinda get repetitive and boring quick, carried by mods, but VERY funny moments with the proximity chat
- I tried to get into it, but it didn’t really click for me. The idea is there, but the gameplay didn’t feel that entertaining after a while. It just didn’t hold my attention the way...
- this game was so good when it came out i loved it but it got boring after a while but its still a good game try it out for yourself!
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