Dread Hunger
Dread Hunger was a 2022 online multiplayer survival and social deduction game developed by Dread Hunger Team and published by Digital Confectioners.
Dread Hunger
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- 2022
- Language
- English · French
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Dread Hunger was a 2022 online multiplayer survival and social deduction game developed by Dread Hunger Team and published by Digital Confectioners.
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Key facts
• Title — Dread Hunger • Developer — Dread Hunger Team • Publisher — Digital Confectioners • Released — January 26, 2022
Concept
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
Gameplay
Dread Hunger was a social deception survival game with PvP and PvE elements.
Development
Development
The game was originally scheduled to release in late 2021. On November 13, 2023, Dread Hunger Team announced that Dread Hunger official servers would 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 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". Dread Hunger was delisted from Steam on December 1, 2023, the game's official servers set to shut down on January 1, 2024. After official support ended, its community discovered ways to modify the game. The active community gathers on an unofficial Discord, which features a bot that can create lobbies for users to play with their friends.
Sales
Sales
Dread Hunger has sold more than 1 million copies.
Reception
Dread Hunger received "mixed or average" reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic.
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- 1.Northup, Travis. Dread Hunger Is a PvP Adventure That Will Put Your Friendships to the Test. IGN. September 30, 2021.
- 2.Marshall, Cass. Betray and eat your friends in this Among Us-style Arctic survival game. Polygon. July 14, 2021.
- 3.Upcoming closure of Dread Hunger's official servers. Steam (service). November 13, 2023.
- 4.Dread Hunger leaves Steam on December 1st & shuts down January 1st, server tools handed over to players. Delisted Games. November 24, 2023.
- 5.Dread Hunger for PC Reviews. Metacritic.
- 6.Dinsdale, Ryan. Dread Hunger Became So Unexpectedly Massive on Steam That It Had to Refocus Development. IGN. May 5, 2022.
- 7.Carless, Simon. In-depth: how Dread Hunger hit 1 million sales. Game Developer. April 21, 2022.
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