Horror followers on PC have been raving about R.E.P.O., developed by Swedish studio semiwork. It is a web-based co-op recreation which launched again in February 2025 the place you and as much as 5 associates must work collectively to find a protracted misplaced age of humanity. You might want to stability quiet and cautious with panic and hilarity as chaos ensues. It went viral when it dropped early entry, and rightly so.
So, should you’re searching the Change eShop and occur to identify one thing that appears very comparable, a warning: do not buy it. Over on the NintendoSwitch subreddit, one consumer is cautioning followers a couple of “whole pretend” recreation referred to as “REPO Horror“, and the proof is fairly damning,as Gamesradar and PC Gamer report.
The consumer stumbled upon this recreation whereas searching the eShop and purchased it, considering that it was associated to the precise Steam recreation. And, at first look, it completely does –the emblem could be very comparable, and the screenshots characteristic the identical low lighting and character designs featured in the actual R.E.P.O.
It was solely after they began enjoying the sport that they realised one thing was improper: “After analyzing it nearer, it felt off—very low high quality and nothing just like the official recreation I used to be anticipating to see, to not point out, it wasn’t printed by Semiwork.”
The scenario seems to be similar to the one which hit the builders of The Backrooms 1998, one other PC horror that really launched on Change earlier this yr. R.E.P.O. is not on Change in any approach, form, or kind proper now, and it seems just like the writer of this pretend model has basically ripped off the viral recreation.
Happily, the reddit consumer has contacted Nintendo Help, and confirmed that “they’re escalating the problem to their head admins.” We actually hope this sort of stuff stops, as a result of it is damaging for the individuals who make the unique video games, but in addition customers who do not realise they’re being scammed.
Digging into issues a bit extra, “REPO Horror” is printed by BoggySoft who can be answerable for bringing one other suspicious-looking recreation to the eShop: Solely Up!, which seems to be a replica of a equally titled recreation, OnlyUP! — which launched again in 2023.
Amazingly, to cap this all off, BoggySoft appears assured sufficient that the sport shall be on Change 2, too, because it lists the file dimension for a Change 1 and Change 2 launch. Hmmm. One thing tells us that will not occur…
