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DEVOUR
Developer Straight Back Games
Devour is a co-op PvE horror video game created by developers Straight Back Games, playable by between 1 and 4 players. The game was released in 2021, with four more maps having been released as of 2023. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
302 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
71
Fresh
181 positive · 74 negative
95% range 65–76%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 181 | 74 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 4 | 0 | 40 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
24,603 of 27,336 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
72% recommend · 163 yes, 64 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 227 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (79,950 of 88,387 positive).
Players say Devour is a fun co-op horror game best enjoyed with friends. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the gameplay repetitive and unbalanced, especially in later rounds. [4][5][6] The game is praised for its tense atmosphere and chaotic, panic-inducing moments. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [4]
The gameplay loop is just not fun. Each level is interesting for 5 to 10 min after which you just repeat the same objective over and over again. It's tedious.
- [2]
If you're expecting a stealth/horror game, look elsewhere, and honestly, playing this solo is not very fun. But if you want a team-based, fast paced, arcade-like experience dressed up as a horror game, this game satisfies. It's a simple formula: perform 10 rituals to win. The map gets more challenging with each ritual performed. Each map has thematic variations. Gameplay feels good, and Straight Back Games are …
- [7]
Devour is the perfect mix of panic, teamwork, and “why did I agree to this?” It’s a surprisingly intense co-op horror game where every round feels like a frantic scramble between collecting items and getting jump-scared. The maps are creepy, the progression of the demon keeps the pressure high, and playing with friends is chaotic fun. It’s simple, replayable, and absolutely terrifying in the best way. If you enjoy …
- [1]
Amazing game to play with friends if they dont come up with some bs excuse to avoid playing it
- [3]
Devour is pure co-op horror chaos. The objectives are simple enough, but once the monster starts chasing the group, every plan immediately falls apart. It's scary, stressful, and often hilarious when teammates panic and run in opposite directions. It's a great time to play with friends.
Summarised from 34 of the 258 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
72% of the 227 Steam reviewers we collected recommend DEVOUR. The complaint that keeps coming up: repetitive gameplay loop. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Reception for the game has been generally positive, with particular focus on its frightening atmosphere, good value, and positive referrals to Phasmophobia, which entered early access four months prior to the release of Devour. Gamesradar approved of its "highly stressful, fast-paced, downright scary experience".
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 302 · most liked firstThe full saga, final part attached Devour or get devoured, that is the rules of this world. A simple game of chance goes awry when the frats invited stripper begins to play. For most, they won't be going home from this party~ 🎨& ft @cedarott.bsky.social #vore #digestion #fat #bones
neutral · AI labelView post →Samus Aran! I'm so excited for the new 2D Metroid game coming out next year! I loved Dread and this looks like a direct continuation with a new Devour mechanic! Samus was due for a redraw and I'm so proud of this piece! It's eat, or be EATEN! #Metroid #Nintendo #Metroidvania #Samus #Sci-fi
neutral · AI labelView post →Roots Devour is neat: a game about being an eldritch corrupted... tree... thing who spreads its roots to take over the forest. In a way it's a whole game about exploring that "you leveled up, dispense your points wisely!" mechanic. Or maybe a game about tech trees, no pun intended.
neutral · AI labelView post →The gameplay loop is just not fun. Each level is interesting for 5 to 10 min after which you just repeat the same objective over and over again. It's tedious.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cor, I can't wait to play #OldSkies this weekend! 🎮❤️ I positively DEVOUR every pixelart point-n-click game from WadjetEye Games @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social. Every single one of their games is an absolute gem of storytelling. The Blackwell saga & The Escavation of Hob's Barrow are some of my faves!🥰
neutral · AI labelView post →While nothing actually happens visually in-game to reflect the Devour passive's effect, I had to draw up a quick thing to reflect what I know is happening :)
neutral · AI labelView post →With the Rite of the Nine update, Bungie updated some of the Elemental keyword icons. ⤵️ From a design POV, these changes and enhancements make them a lot more distinct when scaled down for in-game use. Love the fangs they've added to Devour.
neutral · AI labelView post →1000xResist had me like this not even an hour into the game. This kind of writing and story is what I immediately DEVOUR 💜💜💜
neutral · AI labelView post →I was scrolling past and seriously thought there was a game on your list called Devour: Foreskin lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Devour: AI was used to make this game You: Youre only saying that because they used AI to make the game. Brilliant.
neutral · AI labelView post →Amazing game to play with friends if they dont come up with some bs excuse to avoid playing it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you have 4 players. Wouldnt be bad. UNPLAYABLE with less. as the enemy scaling even on normal difficulty during the end game. The enemy is too fast. constantly agro. and no way to stop it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you're expecting a stealth/horror game, look elsewhere, and honestly, playing this solo is not very fun. But if you want a team-based, fast paced, arcade-like experience dressed up as a horror game, this game satisfies. It's a simple formula: perform 10 rituals to win. The map gets more challenging with each ritual performed. Each map has thematic variations. Gameplay feels good, and Straight Back Games are committed to supporting the game and providing additional content.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tifa plays DEVOUR Enjoying this horror game with some friends, so stop by and say hi! Twitch.tv/versavulture24
neutral · AI labelView post →Please cap how many sub-enemies (ghosts, spiders, wheelchairs, crawlers etc.) can spawn at one time. This game is great but you can literally have 6 sub-enemies on you at one time in the later rounds of rituals which you literally can not deal with without extra UV battery, taking the game from scary to just plain annoying. Please at the very least let us have a difficulty slider for the amount of sub-enemies at one time TwT.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"No you cant eat me, I have to go to work" "No not right now, Im coding for my game" "You can't eat me right now, I have to finish this paper" GOD FORBID A WOMAN DEVOUR HER COMFORT FOODS
neutral · AI labelView post →I like to core idea of the game however this game is far too repetitive. Every mission is collect 10 of this, that and this. My suggestion would be having some form mid-mission change up. Collect 5 items around the map which then opens up another area where there is a different challenge to complete the level? Unfortunately the game just is not my cup of tea.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Drive your castle on wheels into battle in this medieval roguelike of roaming fortresses! Devour entire villages, build your modular arsenal of siege machinery & break the game as you grow with every stronghold you crush. Our Wanderburg early access review: somanygames.co.uk/review/wande...
neutral · AI labelView post →You will like my horror co-op game if you played these games: - Devour - Resident Evil - Lethal Company - Half-Life - Left 4 Dead
neutral · AI labelView post →Devour is a coop survival horror game that can give you a couple of fun nights with friends, but not much more than that. You play as a group of survivors, and in the first map, The Farmhouse, your goal is to complete a satanic ritual to stop Anna from dragging you to hell. This involves finding goats scattered around the house, feeding them, and sacrificing them at the ritual site. Accessing the goats requires unlocking different rooms throughout the farmhouse, which adds some tension early…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devour is pure co-op horror chaos. The objectives are simple enough, but once the monster starts chasing the group, every plan immediately falls apart. It's scary, stressful, and often hilarious when teammates panic and run in opposite directions. It's a great time to play with friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The prelaunch page is up for One Thousand Rats Devour a City! If a boardgame TTRPG hybrid about running a colony of vengeful rats sounds like your kinda game, share this around! Help us get some follows on the project <3 #Kickstarter #TTRPG #Boardgame www.kickstarter.com/projects/rav...
neutral · AI labelView post →Co-op group climbing game Sunset Summit from the devs of DEVOUR arrives August #SunsetSummit #IndieGames #Coop #PCGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →How I look when I load into a game and my Devour gets cleansed immediately.
neutral · AI labelView post →The creator of DEVOUR is back with co-op survival horror LIVING HELL.
neutral · AI labelView post →best fking horror co op game but i cant make anyone play it with me 10/10 DID recommend a lot
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We're so close to our next stretch goal for One Thousand Rats Devour a City! @perjanke.bsky.social will create 4 new alpha rats to include in the game called "The Veterans". These war heroes from past rodent conflicts are here to impart their murine wisdom... www.kickstarter.com/projects/rav...
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, this is HUGE! As a decent amount of you probably know, Mega Man X4 is my favorite game of all time and I have played it so many damn times. I am going to DEVOUR this mod when it is done 👀 youtu.be/Gcpt5_gf7Ow?...
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is just not fun. I do enjoy horror co-op, but the gameplay loop is just boring and repetitive with very little tradeoff. There's just better games to play. The horror aspects are just obnoxious, jump scares are not scary but just stupid
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Devour/Desire a game for 2, play safely 1 is Phantasm You wish for Flesh, to be corporeal You need consent You may: Announce, Search, Tease, Devour 2 is Flesh You wish to be devoured, impossible to disentangle You may: Run, Exhibit, Bait, Yearn Find each other, willingly
neutral · AI labelView post →THE RATS WILL ABIDE THEIR HUNGER NO LONGER. IT IS TIME FOR ONE THOUSAND RATS TO DEVOUR THE CITY. The Kickstarter is live! If you're interested in helping us bring this game to life, share this around, check out the Kickstarter! #TTRPG #boardgame www.kickstarter.com/projects/rav...
neutral · AI labelView post →Devour is the perfect mix of panic, teamwork, and “why did I agree to this?” It’s a surprisingly intense co-op horror game where every round feels like a frantic scramble between collecting items and getting jump-scared. The maps are creepy, the progression of the demon keeps the pressure high, and playing with friends is chaotic fun. It’s simple, replayable, and absolutely terrifying in the best way. If you enjoy shouting at your friends while running for your life, this one’s a must-try.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If your just looking for a game to play for the night with your buds, then sure it's pretty fun and scary. But it's just the same thing over and over, the goal of each map is the same and nothing changes. Each enemy is the same, they just look a bit different. This game has no replayablity.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Picked up this game with my fiancee as an idea for a fun scary co-op game. There is no tutorial and it is very clunky and boring to start. There is no objective list or idea of where to go. Which is fine if everything is open and interactive.... but it's not. We did the Asylum to start, none of the doors opened but one, and we passed 8 fuses as the only pickup option, which we discovered we needed 1, singular, fuse. We encountered a few enemies and successfully defeated them using the UV light,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like this game, the maps are just different enough to make them engaging and fun. But, honestly it's not a very scary game, it's just a hard game. Annoyingly hard. Call it a skill issue but if we can't beat the map after 3+ tries I just don't find much enjoyment out of it anymore. We've been playing since the game first came out and our complaint with every single new map is the same. It just feels so unbalanced. Hiding from the enemies is useless because they have X-Ray Vision and can…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Days stars play a game of Devour, Commit, Trash... soapoperanews.net/2024/11/25/d... #DaysofourLives #DAYS
neutral · AI labelView post →we just announced we are publishing LIVING HELL!!! it's a super sick horror co-op game from @fendercodess.bsky.social, one of the devs of DEVOUR (+7 million copies sold). playtest is now open on Steam!
neutral · AI labelView post →need to find time to play more
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my friends are retarded when it comes to team work. overall good game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enemies are constantly aggro. Unplayable towards the end of a round. Please rebalance game. Otherwise, it's a fun game. MORE EDITS - GAME SORELY NEEDS REBALANCING. Easy mode isn't easy at all.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game genuinely just slop. All you do is grab items. Take them somewhere and drop them off. There is no difficulty. There is hardly any scares. The game is just not something to waste time on even as a Co-op game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →in another effort to review every video game that has helped distract me from the crushing weight of my own mortality and the unavoidable horrors of the human condition: i'd give this game a 6.3/10 with the footnote: i guess i should ask my friends & significant other to play this game with me some more so i can determine whether or not i even like it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first it was really great but it gets wayy to "annoying" and its always collect 10/10 items and by time its getting REALLY annoying like you could have make it different numbers pre level but nah, i really hope you guys update it from the gameplay a little because its becomes really boring
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →(Sourced from this video: youtu.be/XWCyQk6dcrA) Some great anthro rat character designs from the board game '1000 Rats Devour a City'! 🐀
neutral · AI labelView post →Jesus. H. Christ this game is scary as ♥♥♥♥. I'm telling you, the first time I got scared by Molly, I twisted my neck and almost got a brain aneurysm and screamed like a little girl. And I even consider myself quite masculine. Like, if you want a proper near death experience, you should play this game, no buts. Fly high my friends >:(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing DEVOUR with my fiancé and friends RIGHT NOW! It's horror gaming night 😱 @avalamp.bsky.social @mandymay.bsky.social @ravennanya.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →used to spend days here n now online is nearly dead even tho the game is funny wish it had more financial support so devs could post updates more often cuz the carnival one was peak
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The core gameplay simply isn't good. It's scary for the first 20 minutes, then devolves into a stream of repetitive enemies and the level's main monster seeing you from across the map, chasing you, and then screaming in your face. It's the same thing over and over again. Hugely reliant on jumpscares, which lose their effect pretty fast. Funner with friends, but what isn't? Be forewarned, this game is pretty balanced around a 4-person group. I don't think it was really intended for 1-3…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ive spent so much damn money on this game i should legally own a bathroom in one of the maps by now, every month im expecting a new map, but nope, same crusty-ass locations, same possessed goat screaming in my ear like it pays rent there, if im basically financially supporting this game at this point, the devs could at least drop a new map every month instead of making me run the same haunted bullsh1t like a rat on crack in a maze, the gameplay is fun with friends, sure, but content updates…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is really great, really scary and really fun. Sometime kinda hard but i really recommend playing this game at night with friends.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i genuinely dont understand why people recommend this game. This game is super repetitive, find 10 sacrifices, and you win. The monster is always the same, scaling faster as you sacrifice. The start was okay, but the 2nd level was boring, and repetitive, not to mention the slaughterhouse. This level is impossible since Nathan runs around the stupid map at an incredible 100km/hr. It enters aggro every 10 seconds late game, and shining a UV light wont help, because it gets stunned for 3 seconds,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Grandma ☑ Adults ☐ Teens ☐ Kids ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Top tier ☐ Fast ☑ Decent ☐ Potato ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Call of Duty®: Black Ops…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its gud and interesting and it is constantly updated with newmaps.........
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →simple but addictive! a great horror game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10. Scared me. Made me rage. Threats were made. Parents were woken. Top tier experience. Would try again
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great horror game scary fun and even better with friends
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Anna's back and cannot find the last goat. Will we finish the ritual in time or will we all be sacrificed? Hope to see you online as we play DEVOUR with both @ebggttv.bsky.social and @thecanopyteam.bsky.social stream team Friends www.twitch.tv/lesbiannextd...
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want to test your friendships, you’ve come to the right place. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting this game to get as hooked in as it did, but it's as addictive as hell. Definitely do not come looking for a deep story, as it’s purely about surviving the chaos and completing the ritual. But it's not as simple as it sounds. The atmosphere in each of these maps gets so tense that, after a while, even the sound of someone else's breathing on the mic gets creepy. It starts off all chill,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Over the years I had many fun and exciting moments playing this game with friends, we're still getting together whenever a new map releases. Certainly recommend it if you have someone to play with.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is a lot of fun! Pretty difficult towards the end of the levels, even on easy mode, but very fun overall. Would recommend with friends!
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