Developed andPublished By: ReLU Games, Inc. Category: Horror Release Date: 10.27.25 Price: $9.99
A few months ago, I found out about a game called Mimesis and I was immediately hooked on YouTube videos. The game looked fun, it was verified on Steam Deck, and it only cost $10. I knew that I wanted to play it, but it's not the same playing alone, so I had to wait until recently to try it out.
It's an indie horror looter like Lethal Company and R.E.P.O. You run around a stage and collect as much loot as possible while avoiding monsters. In between stages you get to sell your loot to buy items and repairs. If you don't earn enough, your run ends. It's the exact same as the other similar games but with one major twist.
The game is constantly recording your audio and saving it. The basic monsters are mimics who look like you and use your voice clips so they can pretend to be you or your friends and kill you. At first it might seem like it would be easy to tell who's real and who's fake based on voice clips that have already been said... But it's not.
In one session I played in, a mimic used one of my friends voices from an hour ago. It saved the clips for that long which meant it had hundreds of clips to use, and apparently the AI is good at picking which clips fit the situation. If you lose your friend for just thirty seconds, you're going to have a very hard time figuring out who's real and who's a mimic. This can get very challenging but it's lots of fun.
This is why you're advised against playing by yourself because the entire selling point of the game would cease to exist. You'll want to play with at least two friends if not three for the next experience. You might also have to mess with the controller settings a bit depending on how you play, despite the game being verified on Steam Deck.
The game runs great natively on PC and if you're playing on the Steam Deck in handheld mode, the button mapping is pretty good. But when I played docked with a controller, none of the buttons worked. All my other games worked fine except this one. Changing the layout myself didn't help either. I had to go through a bunch of community made layouts until I found one that worked.
Those are two minor inconveniences, but it's still a good game. Like with Lethal Company and R.E.P.O, you're getting lots of replay value. For only $10, it's a solid pickup, even if you only get a few sessions out of it.
