{"id":7096,"date":"2026-04-23T21:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/this-co-op-game-rethinks-a-classic-horror-movie-trope-and-its-finally-on-consoles\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:11:16","slug":"this-co-op-game-rethinks-a-classic-horror-movie-trope-and-its-finally-on-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/23\/this-co-op-game-rethinks-a-classic-horror-movie-trope-and-its-finally-on-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"This Co-Op Game Rethinks A Classic Horror-Movie Trope, And It&#039;s Finally On Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What do movies like Don&#8217;t Breathe, Abigail, The Collector, and The People Under the Stairs all have in common? They all focus on criminals who break into the wrong place at the wrong time. Burglarizing a home or kidnapping someone for a ransom is already stressful work. It&#8217;s worse when the house you&#8217;re breaking into is haunted. That&#8217;s what Dark Hours is all about, and the former PC exclusive is finally on consoles.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dark Hours is played in teams of up to four players, uses proximity chat, and sends you into haunted locales like a casino, a museum, and a cruise ship to break and enter, though it&#8217;s getting out alive that proves trickier. It might sound like another &#8220;friendslop&#8221; game in the style of REPO or YapYap, but it actually predates those, having first hit Steam just before Halloween 2024. It then spent a year in early access and went 1.0 last fall. Now, it&#8217;s finally on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">My early impressions of the game are that it&#8217;s closer to something like Payday, with a touch of Phasmophobia, than it is to Lethal Company or Content Warning, though if you&#8217;re the type to play all these co-op horror games we&#8217;ve been enjoying as of late, this is definitely one not to miss.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do movies like Don&#8217;t Breathe, Abigail, The Collector, and The People Under the Stairs all have in common? They all focus on criminals who break into the wrong place at the wrong time. Burglarizing a home or kidnapping someone for a ransom is already stressful work. It&#8217;s worse when the house you&#8217;re breaking into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3092,3955,2990,540,206,7012,7014,7011,7013],"class_list":{"0":"post-7096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-classic","9":"tag-consoles","10":"tag-coop","11":"tag-finally","12":"tag-game","13":"tag-horrormovie","14":"tag-it039s","15":"tag-rethinks","16":"tag-trope"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}