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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and today we were talking about screen cheat which is a pretty fun indie FPS title that is built around the concept of screen looking or screen cheating and actually encouraging the use of that strategy we'll call it so if you ever played local competitive games and your friends on consoles back in the day when split screen was a more common thing what would happen at least with my groups is we would kind of inadvertently at first look at the screens on the split screen layout of our opponents figure out where they are and use that information to navigate the map find them and kill them and this made camping effectively a non-issue because it just wasn't possible and this eventually devolved into new tactics like looking at the floor while running around and using your memory to navigate the map and that sort of eliminated the possibility of your neighbor looking at your screen to figure out where you were cuz you're looking at the floor and you presumably have some idea of where you are so this comes into play in the game screen cheat screen cheat has all players invisible we are not drawn as character models in the game you do have an FPS view of your gun but that gun is not shown to your opponents so if you if you are looking at me in the game in the FPS arena you see nothing you see right through me unless I'm doing certain things with weapons certain weapons give off flames and things like that so the only way to figure out where your enemies are is to look at their screen everyone's screen is shown at the same time and you can even over the internet if you're playing over the Internet so you you effectively see split screen whether you're alone or not in real life and you've got all four players shown at once you look at their screens to figure out where they are based upon the color of the environment so every environment is a different color it's it's pretty it's not the best looking in terms of aesthetics but it's very good functionally because you can see okay Steve is in the orange room I'm in the Blue Room I go over to orange and I'm gonna kill them and basically there are different colors and objects to help determine where a player is with specificity and then you shoot at where you think they are and if you hit they're dead it's Institute one hit one killer instant give whatever I always forget how to say that ut word but that is the idea so it's it's pretty unique it's pretty novel and that is ultimately what it is is a novelty the game is very fun for a couple of hours maybe 1 to 4 hours depending on on how long you can be entertained and it's really only fun if you've got friends if you've got a couple friends you can play this with it's worth about 10 bucks each to get into it I wouldn't spend more than that but the mechanics are pretty good there are a couple of fun weapons weapons aren't perfectly balanced but you know it's an indie title and it's kind of a silly idea to begin with so really how much can you ask for but the maps are a bit fun the game modes are actually pretty pretty cool so there's of course deathmatch and stuff like that king of the hill but there's also a game mode that is time-based with a single shot so you've got a pistol with one bullet in it and every X seconds I forget how long I think it's 15 seconds or so your ammo will reload so you you need to use your bullet and that time to try and kill someone and then you can't reload until the time expires so this is pretty interesting because it becomes a game of chicken who shoots first and if the person who shoots first misses they're in big trouble unless they can survive for that reload time and get to their at their next bullet there's another game called murder mystery alright that's basically what it is and every player is assigned two cards now keep in mind that you can see all four player screens at the same time so this means that your cards when you look at them everyone else can see them to imagine playing cards at a table every time you look at your own cards it flips it face up on the table it's that idea so basically you keep them concealed until you're ready to take a peek when you think everyone's preoccupied pop them up for a second dropping back down and what they show is who your target is you have to kill that person it doesn't tell you what their name is it just tells you what part of the map they are currently located in and then the second card says what weapon you need to kill them with thus murder mystery so the fun of it is when multiple players are in the blue room for instance and you have to kill a player in the blue room you've got uh sort of let things transpire for a few moments while you deduce which of those two players is your real target and that's a very unique and fun game-mode I don't think it's got a lot of staying power he probably are pretty limited and how many sessions you will invest into that mode but it is fun overall screen sheet is a pretty good game it plays very well for what it is it's interesting for a couple of hours at best I would price it at about ten dollars I probably wouldn't personally want to play more to pay more than that excuse me but it's not bad it's a good novelty at the end of the day that's what it is it's a novelty it doesn't have a ton of staying power and replayability but pretty fun for the time being so that is all for this review I will see you all next time peace