Fickle Allies

Fickle Allies includes a first-person horror campaign and online multiplayer modes. In the campaign, you wake in a dark mansion with no memory of who you are. Something is moving through the corridors, and it is not alone. Find a torch, fight back, and piece together your identity across haunted places by uncovering notes and recordings.

Story mode

The campaign features boss encounters, chases and enemies that hunt by sight and sound. You solve puzzles involving keypads, combination locks, levers, codes and hidden items. Torches have distinct powers that drive back the things hunting you; at the Machine, you can upgrade their power, capacity and fire rate.

Choose Easy or Normal difficulty. Completing the game on Normal unlocks No Save, a one-life mode with no saves. New Game+ keeps your upgrades.

Multiplayer matches

In online matches, players collect crystals, deposit them in safe zones and try to escape. Every crystal must be deposited before anyone can escape. You can cooperate, steal crystals, kill other players or form alliances, with your choices shaping XP rewards and outcomes. Matches can be public or private, and the game also offers Practice, Competitive Multiplayer and Group vs Group modes.

Create or join a group to coordinate with other players. Group members cannot kill one another, but they can still have their crystals stolen, and leaving a group has lasting consequences. In private games, you can invite friends with a room code and attach scares to crystals to trigger when another player collects one.

Hide Your Fear

This party mode is for 2 to 8 players. One player runs and collects crystals, while the others watch and take turns scaring them. Each crystal brings up one video and one sound scare. After each scare, the runner answers whether they were scared; saying yes ends their turn. The player who collects the most crystals without getting scared wins. The mode has no bots or XP.

Maps and playstyles

Explore seven locations: Weird Mansion, Not a Subway, a train interior, Abandoned Facility, Creepy Hospital, Hollow Hill Suburb, Abandoned Stadium and Ravenmere Mall. Each has different routes, hiding places, dangers and tactical decisions. You can play as a killer, companion, thief, protector, opportunist, lone wolf or wildcard, or combine these approaches.

Key features

• First-person online PvP and co-op gameplay, with stealth, headlamp management, exploration and direct confrontation
• Crystal collection, depositing, stealing and betrayal, alongside dynamic groups and shifting alliances
• Private matches with crystal-based scares, plus Practice mode with bots
• Five guided tutorial steps covering collecting, depositing, stealing, killing and scaring