If there’s one major downside to playing games in this tiny subgenre, it’s the permanence of death and how they force you to sit and watch the rest of a match or drop back out to the main menu. You’ll get a chance to alternate between all three during a match because, unlike Dead By Daylight and Friday The 13th, Last Year’s killers aren’t invincible, and the game also features a respawn system. There are currently three flavors of killer to choose from including the Jason-like Slasher, the hulking Giant, and the aptly named Strangler who can lasso survivors with his chain. This allows you to travel the map as if you were some kind of ghostly spectator, albeit one that can lay traps, teleport, and stage ambushes, stepping out from the shadows at any time. ![]() While the teens have strength in numbers, the killer has a diverse range of tools at their disposal as well as a feature dubbed “Predator Mode”. You’ll each have your own role to play as part of a team though if the killer should catch you straying too far from the group you’re as good as dead. These include the Assault (doles out melee damage), Scout (highlights traps and other hazards), Technician (builds gadgets), and Medic (restores health) with players able to unlock bonus abilities by scavenging for crafting components strewn throughout the campus. Survivors can select one of four classes with a cap on two of each per team. Trying to balance these two asymmetrical sides sounds like an unenviable task yet one Elastic Games has managed to pull off quite well. Meanwhile, the killer will need to use a combination of cunning, patience, and unpredictability to thwart their plans, wiping out all five survivors or keeping them distracted long enough for the timer to run down. Matches follow the same structure, tasking survivors with a series of objectives they need to complete before making a beeline for the exit. The core setup will be familiar to anyone who has dabbled in either Friday The 13th or Dead By Daylight. Last Year presents you several playable scenarios, each taking place within a different part of the school’s sprawling campus such as the gym, library, and belltower. ![]() It’s Halloween night, 1996, and a group of teenagers awake to find themselves wandering the eerily quiet campus of East Side High School, a supernatural force lurking in the shadows, attempting to pick them off as they desperately search for a way out. Its thunder may well have been stolen, yet having that extra time has allowed developer Elastic Games to create a deeper, more rewarding multiplayer experience. ![]() ![]() Successfully crowdfunded in 2014, it’s been a long road to release but Last Year is finally here, launching exclusively on Discord with console versions also in the pipeline. However, it was Last Year: The Nightmare that first pitched the idea of having one player adopt the role of a crazed killer, the others working together to escape them. Splicing horror with online multiplayer has become increasingly popular this past couple of years with Dead By Daylight and 2017’s Friday The 13th video game vying for control of this niche subgenre. Four years after being crowdfunded into existence, is Elastic Games’ asymmetric multiplayer horror a slash hit? Our Last Year The Nightmare review suggests the wait has very much been worth it.
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