Dread Hunger
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| Developer(s) | Dread Hunger Team |
| Publisher(s) | Digital Confectioners |
| Release | January 26, 2022 |
Dread Hunger is a 2022 video game developed by Dread Hunger Team and published by Digital Confectioners.
Concept
The players are cast as the crew of a ship that must make its way through an arctic pass that is blocked by an iceberg. The crew must work together to survive, and find explosives in the environment to destroy the iceberg and sail the ship through the pass. However, their efforts are hampered by two of the crewmen secretly being "Dread Thralls", dangerous cannibalistic lunatics who seek to kill the rest of the crew and feast on their flesh. The Thralls must co-operate to stymie the crew's efforts and kill them one by one, while the crew must remain observant to figure out who among them is a traitorous Thrall, kill them, and escape.
Gameplay
Dread Hunger is a social deception survival-adventure game with PvP and PvE elements.[1]
Development
The game was originally scheduled to release in late 2021.[2]
On November 13, 2023, Dread Hunger Team announced that Dread Hunger's official servers will be shut down due to the inability to "support the surprisingly high ongoing server costs" as a result of the servers "being subjected to frequent and severe DDOS attacks". Dread Hunger's server tools will be transferred to players in order to "ensure that the spirit of the game remains alive in the hands of its most passionate supporters".[3]
Dread Hunger was delisted from Steam on December 1, 2023, the game's official servers set to shut down on January 1, 2024.[4]
After official support for the game "Dread Hunger" ended, a strong community emerged. Chinese players, using their "cooking" skills, discovered ways to modify the game. A few weeks later, new mods began to appear, with "Random Roles" becoming one of the most popular. The active community gathers on an unofficial Discord server named Unofficial Dread Hunger. Additionally, this server features a Discord bot that can create lobbies for users to play with their friends.
Reception
| Aggregator | Score |
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| Metacritic | 73/100[5] |
Dread Hunger received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic.[5]
Sales
Dread Hunger has sold more than 1 million copies.[6][7]
References
- ^ Northup, Travis (September 30, 2021). "Dread Hunger Is a PvP Adventure That Will Put Your Friendships to the Test". IGN. Archived from the original on September 30, 2021. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
- ^ Marshall, Cass (July 14, 2021). "Betray and eat your friends in this Among Us-style Arctic survival game". Polygon. Archived from the original on July 14, 2021. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
- ^ Dread Hunger Team (November 13, 2023). "Upcoming closure of Dread Hunger's official servers". Steam (service). Retrieved November 13, 2023.
- ^ ShawnS (November 24, 2023). "Dread Hunger leaves Steam on December 1st & shuts down January 1st, server tools handed over to players". Delisted Games. Archived from the original on 14 December 2023. Retrieved 24 November 2023.
- ^ a b "Dread Hunger for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ Dinsdale, Ryan (May 5, 2022). "Dread Hunger Became So Unexpectedly Massive on Steam That It Had to Refocus Development". IGN. Archived from the original on May 5, 2022. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
- ^ Carless, Simon (April 21, 2022). "In-depth: how Dread Hunger hit 1 million sales". Game Developer. Archived from the original on April 20, 2022. Retrieved June 14, 2022.
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