- October 27, 2025
- ReLU Games, Inc.
- 8h median play time
MIMESIS
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About MIMESIS
MIMESIS is a single player and multiplayer survival management game with horror and science fiction themes. It was developed by ReLU Games, Inc. and was released on October 27, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.
A microphone is required to play MIMESIS.For a more immersive experience, we recommend using a headset or earphones instead of speakers. ================================================ Do you see this message? You’ve reached the tram. Welcome. MimesisMimesis will imitate you and your allies perfectly. Behavior, voice, anything humans can do. Always doubt the person in front of you. Gather…











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Reviews
- Innovative and highly entertaining AI mimic mechanic that duplicates player voices and behavior, creating paranoia and unique social-deduction gameplay.
- Great co-op experience with friends, delivering chaotic fun, tension, and memorable moments of trust and betrayal.
- Polished art style and atmospheric sound design that enhances the psychological horror and immersiveness of the game.
- Limited content and replayability, with few maps and items leading to repetitive gameplay and navigation issues.
- AI mimics sometimes lack natural movement and contextual responses, making them often easy to identify and less convincing.
- Some balancing and design issues including punishing difficulty spikes, enemy volume, inventory limitations, lack of tutorials, and occasional technical problems like bugs and optimization concerns.
gameplay
220 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeGameplay in this early access game centers around a mimic mechanic that impressively imitates player voices, creating tense and often humorous moments, especially when played with friends. However, many reviewers find the core gameplay loop—collecting items and evading enemies—repetitive and derivative of similar titles like Lethal Company, with limited map variety, shallow mechanics, and sometimes punishing difficulty and bugs. While the mimic feature adds psychological tension and uniqueness, the overall gameplay currently lacks depth, content, and polish, leaving promise for future expansion but mixed feelings about its present state.
“The mimic mechanic is very well made as it can be very hard to tell who's actually real.”
“The actual meat and potatoes gameplay is very simple (just collecting items and bringing them back), but I really hope they keep iterating on it and polishing things because the concept here is golden.”
“The gameplay loop is simple but incredibly addicting; the maps are fun, the designs are creepy, and the core mimic mechanic creates some really fun and memorable moments.”
“The maps feel so janky to go around because there are no gimmicks or tech to going anywhere. The player jump is super weak and useless because there are no locations that require you to ever jump in the game or make your own shortcuts by jumping over anything. You can't even jump on the smallest obstacles due to invisible barriers. Speaking of tech, this game has nothing interesting for longer time players to learn because it's so strict and bland with every mechanic. Combat is boring and easy because most enemies, even in their stronger forms, get stunned if you hit them once with a weapon, so you can just keep chaining the hits while they are stun locked.”
“The gameplay loop is boring and a straight copy of the same 'scrap and sell' loop we've seen before. It was overall a subpar experience that can be better found elsewhere, namely repo if you are looking for the same horror style gameplay loop. The whole idea of the game is just lethal company but with enemies that can mimic you, but that is not enough to make the game good, as it fails at everything that makes lethal company good. AI, map design, and the gameplay loop are all boring and shallow with no depth.”
“The gameplay doesn't have enough content to stop it from being super repetitive. From what I've experienced, it is just the exact same map over and over with different fog effects depending on what the map is called, and you only get to choose from 2 instead of whichever one you want, not that it makes a difference anyways. At the current moment, this game is just lethal company but with 1 map and mimics. While the mimics are cool, this game is still far from being unique or better than other games, if they lean into the mimics more and add more original mechanics or mechanics that rely on teamwork it would be better. But at the current moment, this is a knockoff that you would find on Roblox. What makes the devs think this is at all equal to the same cost of lethal company or repo is crazy when it's lacking everything that makes those games good.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
MIMESIS is a survival management game with horror and science fiction themes. Common tags for MIMESIS include first-person, indie, psychological, exploration, atmospheric and others.
MIMESIS is available on PC, Steam Deck and Windows.
On average players spend around 15 hours playing MIMESIS.
MIMESIS was released on October 27, 2025.
MIMESIS was developed by ReLU Games, Inc..
MIMESIS has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked MIMESIS for its gameplay but disliked it for its story.
MIMESIS is a single player game with multiplayer and local co-op support.
Similar games include The Headliners, PILGRIM, Nuclear Nightmare, Burglin' Gnomes, Murky Divers and others.








