Trick or Eat

Trick or Eat is a co-op game set on Halloween night, when real monsters go trick-or-treating—not for candy, but for the people who answer the door. With the children too scared to go outside, you take to the streets to protect families from the monsters.

Protect the neighbourhood

Monsters emerge from graves, crypts, manholes and rifts, then head for front doors. Every knock starts a countdown: reach the house in time and the family survives; arrive too late and the lights go out. Trick-or-treating children roam the streets and scream when they see a monster, giving you a way to track it.

Play together or turn

You can play alone or team up online with up to three friends, through Steam friends or quick match. Choose from 16 unlockable classes, each with a melee weapon, a ranged weapon, an ability and a passive. The Cop tapes a spawn point shut, Grandma scatters hard sweets that make monsters stop to eat, the Firefighter drops a fire truck from the sky and hoses down the whole street, and the Teen sets up trampolines.

If you bleed out, your spirit drifts over the neighbourhood. You can possess any monster on the field and turn against your former team, which will not know which ghoul you are.

Neighbourhoods and bosses

Each run takes you through five procedurally generated neighbourhoods, with a new layout every time. The 22 neighbourhood themes include quiet suburbs, farm towns, bayous and graveyards, and every neighbourhood ends with a boss encounter. Survive all five and you face the final boss at the haunted mansion.

The game includes more than a dozen monster types, from shambling zombies to a nun who only stops when everyone is watching her. Bosses include a werewolf pack, the Pumpkin King, the Demon and the Count himself. Between waves, you can spend your loot in a walk-in candy store. Trick or Eat features dark comedy and light gore.