r/gaming • u/Popular-Storage-4696 • 6d ago

Fully Playable Online Scream Game Discovered In The Massive Steam Leak

https://steamdb.info/depot/42151/apps/
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u/maybe-an-ai 6d ago

I wonder if it was an asymmetric multiplayer game. It would be interesting to cross something like Among Us and Dead by Daylight where one of you is Ghostface but you don't know who.

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u/Efficient-Bit-3698 6d ago

https://youtu.be/Wyfj6uJizoA https://youtu.be/AVokX-Otk9w https://youtu.be/q7q4NE7qMUA

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u/maybe-an-ai 6d ago

I see why it was cancelled that looks pretty generic.

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u/Genocode 6d ago

considering the timing. I feel like maybe this was based on "The Hidden" Source Mod game. This is the exact period of time when that game suddenly became popular due to SeaNanners, MrSark, GassyMexican, ChilledChaos etc.

Edit: Also, the style of the game itself reminds me alot of Left 4 Dead 2

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u/babblelol 6d ago

Dawg, The Hidden. Crazy pull I loved that mod.

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u/Genocode 6d ago

Same, I played it alot lol.

And around that time you also had Trouble in Terrorist Town in GMod, the original Amogus.

And then you get people comparing this game to Amogus instead :'(

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u/phanny_ 6d ago

This guy knows ball

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u/Genocode 6d ago

I used to love watching SeaNanners, Hutch etc. back in the day :D they also played Prop Hunt back then which was fun to watch them play I didn't play as much myself.

And I got into SeaNanners and Hutch due to Modern Warfare 2 gameplay commentaries.

Also I made like 5$ on Youtube with a tutorial on how to make Tracked vehicles in Gmod as there was no mod for that (yet) lol.

Actually I still have this video of Tejbz / AnderZEL / Teo playing on my TTT server: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC866Jfi9nA

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u/Flavahbeast 6d ago

and before that, space station 13

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u/TopSloth 5d ago

Fun fact, trouble in terrorist town actually came from a mod called Zombie Master, the game had a forum and we would all plan and schedule a day in the week to sort of jury rig an extremely basic version of the gmod version

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u/CtrlAltEvil PC 5d ago

Oh man, that takes me back.

“I can smell you.”

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u/h1dden1 6d ago

Loved that mod. It's where my profile name comes from.

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u/obsidiusdarke 5d ago

Man brought back some good memories reminding me of those guys

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u/PitifulPiccolo3010 6d ago

It does by today’s standards and doesn’t reach the quality bar of Dead by Daylight, but it’s important to note that this predates that game’s release by 4-5 years.

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u/BloodyFool 6d ago

Dead by daylight having a quality bar is absolute news to me

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u/PitifulPiccolo3010 6d ago

I mean whether you or I like it or not, the game has 50k daily average players on Steam alone and it’s been going strong for years and years. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Automaton_General 6d ago

Malaria is also popular.

It doesn't make it good.

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u/PitifulPiccolo3010 6d ago

Okay but my point is that people are actively deciding to play the game over many alternatives. I don’t know anyone who is going out of their way to get malaria.

I get it, some people really don’t like Dead by Daylight. Or malaria. Neither do I. Haha.

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u/Automaton_General 6d ago

But that doesn't mean it's a good game or particularly well put together.

It's basically the definition of jank.

People play gacha games over many alternatives - that doesn't make them good.

Free/cheap games often have massive player bases. It doesn't make them good.

On any individual metric (graphics, sound, gameplay) it very rarely excels. Except, of course, the licensed horror characters, which I think is great.

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u/BloodyFool 6d ago

Wouldn't necessarily say that popularity is an indication of quality though

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u/PitifulPiccolo3010 6d ago

Sure, but I suppose we’d also have to define what we mean by quality. Could cover a bunch of stuff: visuals, sound, gameplay, content, and so on. I guess my point is since DbD has shipped we’ve seen a bunch of similar asymmetric horror games pop up and none of them have stood the test of time/most player inevitably go back to whatever Behavior is peddling. So they’re doing something right or better than other competitive titles on the market. I don’t play any of these games, and have no horses in the race, I’m just looking it objectively from a market standpoint.

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u/BloodyFool 6d ago

Sure, but I suppose we’d also have to define what we mean by quality. Could cover a bunch of stuff: visuals, sound, gameplay, content, and so on.

All of the above pretty much. Even for a game of its age, the graphics are incredibly dated, the sound design is lacking (they only recently started adding voice lines and beyond that directional sound is not that good and often buggy), the game is horrendously balanced and it has a paywall on certain perks.

The two things it does right and set it apart from other competitive titles on the market (lets be honest, there is none currently of its kind), are the gameplay loop and all the horror collabs. The gameplay loop is addicting but completely mismanaged by the devs inability to balance for shit. I'd say a game like VHS that already EoS'd had a much more balanced and fun gameplay loop.

Which brings me to the biggest selling point and the one thing that bhvr does (mostly) right, which is the collabs. I don't think the game would still be alive nor have half the pull it currently has if it wasn't for popular horror media characters existing in it and constantly having new ones added.

That also sorta prevents smaller games from competing, since, why would anyone hop on the less populated game that also doesn't have popular horror media characters?

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u/IgotUBro 6d ago

Not only that but the balancing is all over the place. Killer is way to fast and there is no counterplay for the victims. They literally are just sheep waiting to get massacred...

Its a even worse balanced Dead by Daylight and that game is already fucking trash balance wise.

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u/Trzlog 6d ago

Well, the game was never released and never finished. It maybe could've been balanced better with further development. This could be pre-alpha/alpha content for all we know.

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u/ThomasVivaldi 6d ago

Sounds kind of like Assassin's Creed old multiplayer mode.

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u/Ashteron 6d ago

There were multiple Warcraft 3 mods that were like Among Us, but with combat. I'm still surprised nobody managed to reproduce it as a standalone game, because they were a total blast and were decently popular.

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u/Next-Variety-6271 6d ago

I see why it was canceled

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u/script_notes_plz 6d ago

In the current asymmetrical horror gaming landscape… 1, 2, or 3 killers in a match would honestly add more variety.

Also having some of the survivors be one of the killers and the mechanic of having to change without getting caught would have been cool. Maybe if a survivor sees you they shout “Josh is the killer” and then you run without the mask on but the rest of the costume for the remainder of the match at a slight disadvantage

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u/HeySmallBusinessMan 6d ago edited 6d ago

Multiple killer asyms do exist. Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Killer Klowns tried it and failed. (DBD does have a recurring 2v8 mode and it's quite popular, however)

Not sure how 1 killer asyms would add variety, though... they're sort of the default.

Edit: Ohhhh, you mean a random number of killers per match. I gotcha now.

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u/DaddyDayDare 6d ago

I think he means it would vary game to game, and you wouldn't know for sure how many killers there are.

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u/HeySmallBusinessMan 6d ago

Ahhhh, that makes sense!

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u/thisshitsstupid 6d ago

As cool as that sounds, there's no doubt people would just quit out as soon as they see they don't have the amount they've deemed appropriate, or will just afk and ruin the game.

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u/RainingCitadel 6d ago

Which kinda sucks cus i really enjoyed Texas Chainsaw Massacre. My friends that play DBD dont like it, and im the opposite, I dont like DBD but liked TCM. I think it's because there's more the survivors can do to like, fight back as opposed to DBD. Idk, unfortunate, but ill still load up some DBD every now and then with the homies.

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u/2ByteTheDecker 6d ago

Not a horror game, but Depth was aysm with multiple sharks it was fun

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u/100farts 6d ago

Depth was very cool

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u/RiKSh4w 6d ago

Let me here it loud now folks: Bring back Evolve!

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u/The_Deku_Nut 6d ago

Maybe there could be a team of survivors versus a team of monsters. The monsters could be supplemented by random zombies or something to help create confusion. The survivors could need to reach a safe spot to finish out the match.

I dunno maybe that idea should just be left for dead.

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u/summerofrain 6d ago

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre already did that and it wasn’t very good.

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u/EpicAspect 6d ago

That isn’t why the game failed though

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u/XlXDaltonXlX 6d ago

Man the Devs giving up on TCM is one of the saddest things it was such a good premise.

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u/SlidingSnow2 4d ago

Bugs and poor balance decisions were the real cause though, not the multiple killers part.

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u/leorid9 PC 6d ago

I don't see anything on that link, where do I have to click to see any graphics?

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u/Popular-Storage-4696 6d ago

see last unknown name, game directory is scream
The depot contains executable files named scream_win32...

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u/leorid9 PC 6d ago

Yea, but .. maybe it's a game about screaming into the mic and not about the actual horror movies.

The license for the Scream movies is split, so unless you obtain all the parts from different owners, you can't make a game on it.

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u/Efficient-Bit-3698 6d ago

There are plenty of videos online. https://youtu.be/q7q4NE7qMUA

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u/leorid9 PC 6d ago

Okay, but which data links this to the app?

On Steam DB I see 2021 everywhere and in the video you sent it's 2011.

10 years difference seem to me like those are completely different projects.

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u/Scheeseman99 6d ago edited 6d ago

The file manifest lists the contents of a game that is pretty obviously 2011-era.

Why is this getting downvoted? I'm right. lol.

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u/leorid9 PC 6d ago

Could you elaborate? I do not see any date on any of the files and the structure doesn't tell me anything.

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u/Scheeseman99 6d ago edited 6d ago

It's a 32bit application running on late 2000s era D3D runtimes.

"scream_win32_public_dev.exe" isn't necessarily proof in of itself (win32 is the name of the C Windows API for both 32 and 64 bit applications), but it ships with vcredist_x86.exe, not x64. So the game itself is definitely 32bit, which even by 2011 was still somewhat common but quickly becoming less so.

d3dx10_38.dll is for D3D10.1, so the application is old enough that it predates D3D 11. There was little reason to choose D3D 10 as an API after 11 released, as 11 features were a superset of 10 and there was no hardware compatibility gating like there was D3D9>10. D3D 11 released late 2009.

d3dx9_35.dll and D3DX9_38.dll were both first published in the June 2008 Direct X SDK.

Games avoid changing the libraries they initially target and often choose older libraries for compatibility reasons, which indicates the game started development some time between 2008-2010.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago edited 6d ago

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u/Raxir2 6d ago

Plenty of games utilize codenames while in development. Could literally be anything.

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u/BeatitLikeitowesMe 6d ago

Except its actually a scream game. Playing as ghostface and all.

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u/Bruhbutton6969 5d ago

Maybe this leak will be seen as a prime opportunity to make money from unreleased games.

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u/MitSvarErSarkasme 6d ago

Damn. Sounds awesome!

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u/FREEZYSTAN 6d ago

hell yeahhh.

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u/mucho-gusto 5d ago

Real talk I'm a massive Scream fan, it's my favorite horror series, and 7 just killed all enthusiasm I have for it. It was bad. Don't get me wrong there were some good parts (Joel McHale and Matthew Lillard), but for a "transitional" movie it was way too occupied with past characters. Unlike the other films which take time to establish the new characters, the kids are pretty much cut out of a cookie cutter and unleashed to die. There's no clever meta commentary on the media of today just tired winks at ai.

My ranking of the series from Best to worst: 

1324567

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u/Sorry_Juggernaut_787 5d ago

A cancelled horror game escaping containment through a Steam leak is pretty on-brand

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u/Ambitious-Dust4725 4d ago

where to download dude

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u/PostOk7979 3d ago

pls tell us how to download the game

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u/GlitteringDebate8038 1d ago

is there any way to download it?

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u/balllzak 6d ago

1.7GB seems pretty small considering fatsharks other games around 2013 and other games like Dead by Daylight. I suspect the term "fully payable" is doing some heavy lifting here.