Thrilling retro-inspired shooter Nightmare Reaper adds 2-4 player co-op

Nightmare Reaper is a quality retro-inspired shooter worth your time, now even more so because you can team up with friends in a major upgrade.

The multiplayer update features a co-op mode where up to 4 players can blast through the entire campaign together, including New Game+. A unique deathmatch mode lets players create custom game modes and battle with randomly generated weapons. The update also introduces new elite enemies, 15 new "shiny" weapon variants with unique mechanics, a new skill tree, a new minigame, and a pile of bug fixes and gameplay improvements - bringing the total weapon count to 99 unique weapons with thousands of possible randomized effects and stat combinations.

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It's pretty ridiculous - in all the right ways. Across three chapters you get a good 20-30 hours to play through.

Core Game Key Features:

• Intense and addictive gameplay - Tons of enemies are crammed in open-ended levels full of surprises and geysers of blood and treasure.
• Character progression - Use the gold you find to purchase tons of character upgrades and new abilities via nostalgic minigames.
• Ludicrous weapon variety - 99 unique weapons (58 in EA) that can drop as loot and can contain a funky mix of over 30 enchantment types.
• Music and audio by Andrew Hulshult from Doom Eternal - The badass tunes in Nightmare Reaper add to the retro vibe and are DMCA-free.
• Non-intrusive story - The mystery of the nightmare adds to the desire to keep playing.
• Multiple game modes - Campaign, Endless, and New Game+- offer high replayability.
• A mix of manual and random level generation - Tons of random events and secrets to discover.

Co-Op Game Features

• Co-op gaming - for two to four players through the original campaign.
• Improved New Game + - a new minigame and new skill tree aim to make New Game+ more enjoyable and provide new high-level content for both single and multiplayer gamers.
• Deathmatch mode - players can create custom game modes and fight with randomly generated weapons.
• New elite enemies that make replaying the game more challenging.
• 15 new “shiny” weapon variants with unique mechanics, bringing the total to 99 unique weapons and countless randomized effect combinations .

Works great on Linux with Proton and it's Steam Deck Verified too.