Lucky Frame’s The Nightmare Cooperative to haunt iOS & Android this autumn

When I dip you dip we dip.

Scottish artificers Lucky Frame released a new game on PC & Mac last week — a unique roguelike called The Nightmare Cooperative. Along with the basic roguelike conventions of randomly-generated levels and permadeath, your entire party of adventures moves as a group with a single set of controls, multiplying the danger from every movement decision. It sounds a bit like Threes with elves. It’s also got some appealingly chunky graphics and music that sounds like a lullaby composed by an opiated Tom Waits.

I talked to Lucky Frame’s Yann Seznec last week and he told me that Nightmare Cooperative is definitely coming to iOS & Android. There’s no firm date yet, but it could optimistically show up in September, Seznec said.

I was a late convert to Lucky Frame’s delightfully unusual music-generating tower defense game Bad Hotel but I was enthralled by it for a good week. Nightmare Cooperative looks to be at least as weird its predecessor, which bodes well. I’ll let you know when I hear about a solid release date.

Watch the Nightmare Cooperative trailer below.