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Cursed Companions

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80%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, gameplay
Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, graphics
80% User Score Based on 275 reviews

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About Cursed Companions

Cursed Companions is a single player and multiplayer action adventure game with horror, fantasy and comedy themes. It was developed by Crimson Forge Studios and was released on November 20, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.

Roadmap About the GameCursed Companions is a co-op horror game that responds to every word the players say. Every player is cursed with a forbidden word, like "Okay" or "I think". If anyone says it, the player takes damage. When you say the right words, you can heal your friends or disarm traps. "Mommy loves you... I'm sorry, I'm sorry... IT'S IN THE BOOK! IT'S …

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80%Audience ScoreBased on 275 reviews
humor52 positive mentions
stability12 negative mentions
  • Extremely fun and chaotic multiplayer experience best enjoyed with friends; leads to lots of laughter and memorable moments.
  • Unique and clever voice-recognition mechanic where players use spoken phrases to cast spells, disarm traps, and sabotage others, adding a fresh twist to cooperative play.
  • Developers are responsive and actively updating the game with new content, bug fixes, and features, creating a promising early access title.
  • Voice recognition system is often inaccurate, especially for players with accents, causing frustration and repeated attempts to cast spells.
  • The game is buggy with issues like crashes, audio/microphone problems, clipping, and occasional game-breaking glitches that hinder smooth gameplay.
  • Limited content and repetitive gameplay with few maps and monsters; some players report the game feeling shallow or monotonous after short play sessions.

  • humor

    52 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's humor is widely praised for its chaotic, absurd, and silly nature, often leading to hilarious moments especially when played with friends. Players enjoy the unpredictable voice-based mechanics and funny word interactions, which fuel laughter, friendly trolling, and memorable chaotic fun. While some find it frustrating or less funny than expected, most highlight it as a uniquely funny, goofy, and entertaining multiplayer experience.

    • “Had so much fun playing through with friends and constantly screaming, bickering and crying from laughing so hard.”
    • “The game blends chaos and humor, and it’s hard not to enjoy the absurdity of the situations we found ourselves in.”
    • “Best moments is when the words to hurt you is also the words to heal you and your friend gets so shocked when they killed you by mistake and keep saying sorry while you're crying from laughing so hard.”

  • gameplay

    20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    35% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 15% negative mentions

    The gameplay is praised for its unique voice-recognition and word-based mechanics, offering a fun, teamwork-driven, and humorous experience with strong replayability. However, players frequently note technical issues like buggy speech recognition, stiff animations, unclear instructions, and frustrating crashes, which hinder smooth progression and immersion. While the core concept is seen as innovative and enjoyable with friends, the game requires refinement and better execution to fully realize its potential.

    • “This game will have you crying from laughter at its unique gameplay.”
    • “Such a fun game, the vocal phrases element that keeps changing adds such a clever mechanic that keeps people alert.”
    • “Great concept; even better gameplay loop.”
    • “Game mechanics are explained very poorly, with no clear indication of what we were meant to do.”
    • “Bad mechanics and a buggy game caused constant crashes, forcing me to refund.”
    • “The gameplay feels very stiff, with no camera bobbing and rigid animations.”

  • stability

    14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    7% positive mentions, 7% neutral mentions, 86% negative mentions

    The game shows strong potential and offers fun cooperative gameplay, but its early access state is marked by frequent bugs, crashes, lag, and voice chat issues that significantly impact the experience. Stability improvements are needed before it can be fully recommended.

    • “Honestly, the game is adorable and runs great for an early access game!!”
    • “The game has a lot of potential, but in its current early access state it is still way too buggy to be sold in my opinion.”
    • “Bad mechanics, buggy game, my cousin's computer kept crashing whenever we opened the portal. The bugs and constant crashes forced me to refund.”
    • “I cannot recommend this game until they fix the issue where other players cannot hear a specific player speaking. We tried all troubleshooting in the Discord FAQ and mic error pages to no avail. This makes game modes like the traitor mode unplayable for them and worsens coop experience. Until a successful fix works, I cannot recommend the game.”

  • graphics

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    20% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The graphics are widely criticized for being low-quality and limited to 1080p resolution, with some users finding the art style unpleasant or causing motion sickness. Additionally, the maps lack distinctiveness beyond their basic aesthetics.

    • “Even the different maps themselves didn't have anything unique going for them other than the aesthetics.”
    • “And the graphics are horrible; my little brother can do better, and he is still in the womb.”
    • “Only supports up to 1080p at the moment, and something about the art style for the graphics makes me motion sick.”
    • “I have done this in the past with multiple Steam games, and with my AMD 6900 XT graphics card, I'm shocked that I had this issue.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music in the game is highly praised and considered top-notch, with players expressing strong enthusiasm and a desire to obtain the soundtrack. Specific tracks, like the one associated with the red light stop sign, have garnered particular attention.

    • “The music is top notch.”
    • “I love this game, but please, for the love of all that's holy, I need the soundtrack.”
    • “Please can anyone figure out what the red light stop sign song is, please?”

  • optimization

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game requires significant optimization improvements, particularly in network performance, which is rated very poorly. Despite these issues, the core gameplay remains enjoyable when played with friends.

    • “Needs some optimization improvements and more content, but overall fun with friends.”
    • “Network performance: 0 out of 10”

  • story

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 50% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The story adds a chaotic and humorous twist to party games, emphasizing fast-paced missions that speed up with more friends, combined with playful, explosive interactions. It's a fun and engaging narrative that enhances the multiplayer experience.

    • “Such a fun plot twist on party games!”

  • monetization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The monetization is seen as a quick cash grab that diminishes the fun, offering only brief, shallow entertainment lasting about 30 minutes.

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in the game is engaging and designed for extended play sessions, making it enjoyable for both cooperative gameplay with friends and solo farming. The developers have created a concept that supports long hours of rewarding progression.

  • replayability

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game’s replayability is noted but lacks detailed feedback, making it difficult to assess its depth or variety from the given comments.

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game evokes a blend of intense excitement and wholesome fun, creating emotional moments filled with clever gameplay, panic, and laughter that foster friendly rivalry and memorable shared experiences.

    • “Every run is a perfect combo of clever design, absolute panic, and the kind of laugh-til-you-cry sabotage that ruins friendships in the most wholesome way. My friends and I repeatedly yell each other's curse words to kill one another before hopping off for the night—it's perfect!”
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6h Median play time
6h Average play time
6-6h Spent by most gamers
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Cursed Companions is a action adventure game with horror, fantasy and comedy themes. Common tags for Cursed Companions include first-person, indie, psychological, exploration, psychological horror and others.

Cursed Companions is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 6 hours playing Cursed Companions.

Cursed Companions was released on November 20, 2025.

Cursed Companions was developed by Crimson Forge Studios.

Cursed Companions has received positive reviews from players. Most players liked Cursed Companions for its humor but disliked it for its stability.

Cursed Companions is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.

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