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How to Find a Game Group in R.E.P.O.
REPO is the newest wacky comedy/survival horror co-op game in town. This mix of genres and inspirations has had a powerful grip on online gaming groups since the release of bad job simulators Lethal Company, Pacify, Content Warning and more. Compared to those games, REPO is quite feature-complete for an early access title, with one exception: matchmaking. What is a lonely player to do? What if you don’t have an online gaming group of two to six players, or at least not one willing to play a game with screenshots as deep-fried as REPO? There’s no nice way to say it: this game looks so weird that you might have to fish out interested players from outside your community, something the game won’t help you with, as it doesn’t currently support matchmaking with random players. That’s a real problem, but it didn’t slow down the game’s popularity. A look at the Steam Forums page in the Community Hub will prove as much, with its endless flood of players looking for a gaming group and spamming no-name Discord servers. And while tight-knit communities are great, a random unmoderated server is not always good news. And telling the two apart is not as easy as you might think. Thankfully, there is an alternative. The official REPO Discord server Image via semiwork Discord invites are fragile things, as they can change or expire with time. To get access to the official REPO fan Discord server, you should check developer Semiwork’s bio on X. It is currently displaying a valid invite to the studio’s official Discord and will hopefully still have one by the time you find it. However, the studio’s server is not where you should go to find REPO players. Instead, head to the Discussions chat room of that server and look for the words “REPO Discord server.” You’ll find an invite for the dedicated, official looking-for-game server. Now, if you’ve been willing to play detective to find this weirdly hidden official server because you crave the curated experience of in-game matchmaking, you’re out of luck. This is pretty much a self-directed group, and it seems like the developers are only there to enforce moderation. While it’s hard to say whether they have had any success enforcing those rules, their presence is reassuring. Adding players to a multiplayer session Image via semiwork Even once you find someone to play with, it can be a pain to actually get a multiplayer game started. Currently, the player who is hosting the game has to invite everyone else, one at a time, after they have added the host to their Steam friends list. That’s quite a lot of work to play one game, and while it makes it easier to play with the same group in the future, you don’t know if that’s going to happen yet. Plus, you have to add a stranger to your Steam friends, which you might not be comfortable with. An alternative (but no less convoluted) way to add players to a game lobby is to share the secret lobby link. This isn’t really a secret, of course, just a useful Steam feature you might not know about. First, open a multiplayer game and make sure it’s public. Then, follow these instructions: As the host of a public game, open Steam Overlay This isn’t strictly necessary, but it’s the easiest way to get to your profile Open your profile page Look for the green button that says “Join Game” Right-click on the button and select “Copy link address” Give this link to everyone you want to join your game To use this link, simply paste it into a browser like you would any other. Instead of opening a website, the browser will ask if you want to open the link in Steam. This will let you join your friend’s game. If you’re running Linux, your browser might not send the link to Steam automatically. A fan-made Lethal Company guide claims that you can fix this problem by forcing Steam to open the link through the terminal, but we weren’t able to verify its validity. Just make sure to check it’s safe before you inject random users’ code into the terminal. The post How to Find a Game Group in R.E.P.O. appeared first on Destructoid.
REPO is the newest wacky comedy/survival horror co-op game in town. This mix of genres and inspirations has had a powerful grip on online gaming groups since the release of bad job simulators Lethal Company, Pacify, Content Warning and more. Compared to those games, REPO is quite feature-complete for an early access title, with one exception: matchmaking.
What is a lonely player to do? What if you don’t have an online gaming group of two to six players, or at least not one willing to play a game with screenshots as deep-fried as REPO? There’s no nice way to say it: this game looks so weird that you might have to fish out interested players from outside your community, something the game won’t help you with, as it doesn’t currently support matchmaking with random players.
That’s a real problem, but it didn’t slow down the game’s popularity. A look at the Steam Forums page in the Community Hub will prove as much, with its endless flood of players looking for a gaming group and spamming no-name Discord servers. And while tight-knit communities are great, a random unmoderated server is not always good news. And telling the two apart is not as easy as you might think. Thankfully, there is an alternative.
The official REPO Discord server
Discord invites are fragile things, as they can change or expire with time. To get access to the official REPO fan Discord server, you should check developer Semiwork’s bio on X. It is currently displaying a valid invite to the studio’s official Discord and will hopefully still have one by the time you find it. However, the studio’s server is not where you should go to find REPO players. Instead, head to the Discussions chat room of that server and look for the words “REPO Discord server.” You’ll find an invite for the dedicated, official looking-for-game server.
Now, if you’ve been willing to play detective to find this weirdly hidden official server because you crave the curated experience of in-game matchmaking, you’re out of luck. This is pretty much a self-directed group, and it seems like the developers are only there to enforce moderation. While it’s hard to say whether they have had any success enforcing those rules, their presence is reassuring.
Adding players to a multiplayer session
Even once you find someone to play with, it can be a pain to actually get a multiplayer game started. Currently, the player who is hosting the game has to invite everyone else, one at a time, after they have added the host to their Steam friends list. That’s quite a lot of work to play one game, and while it makes it easier to play with the same group in the future, you don’t know if that’s going to happen yet. Plus, you have to add a stranger to your Steam friends, which you might not be comfortable with.
An alternative (but no less convoluted) way to add players to a game lobby is to share the secret lobby link. This isn’t really a secret, of course, just a useful Steam feature you might not know about. First, open a multiplayer game and make sure it’s public. Then, follow these instructions:
- As the host of a public game, open Steam Overlay
- This isn’t strictly necessary, but it’s the easiest way to get to your profile
- Open your profile page
- Look for the green button that says “Join Game”
- Right-click on the button and select “Copy link address”
- Give this link to everyone you want to join your game
To use this link, simply paste it into a browser like you would any other. Instead of opening a website, the browser will ask if you want to open the link in Steam. This will let you join your friend’s game.
If you’re running Linux, your browser might not send the link to Steam automatically. A fan-made Lethal Company guide claims that you can fix this problem by forcing Steam to open the link through the terminal, but we weren’t able to verify its validity. Just make sure to check it’s safe before you inject random users’ code into the terminal.
The post How to Find a Game Group in R.E.P.O. appeared first on Destructoid.
