The WhatsNext verdict
Hypersomnia is a sharp, high-speed competitive shooter for players who want Hotline Miami-style intensity and enjoy making or mastering custom maps. It is best experienced with friends or an active community, not as a solo game.
What it does best
A relentless top-down firefight built for adrenaline
A map editor that turns players into content creators
Competitive shooting with a demanding skill ceiling
What might put you off
Empty servers and a small player population
Early Access incompleteness
The setup
What you are walking into
Hypersomnia is a fast-paced online shooter released as free software, aspiring to become an MMO with elements of RPG. Set in a hypothetical afterlife reality, it shall provide joy through altruistic behaviours, fierce fights, fulfillment of elaborate social roles or sowing panic as a traitor to benevolent ones. Declare allegiance to one of the three factions whose apple of discord is a disparity between prevailing notions of moral excellence. Metropolis. Atlantis. Resistance.
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