Summary
- Controls in Repo are simple but lack controller support, while Lethal Company offers more versatility with customization.
- Repo features monsters that not only attack you but also try to damage items you’re trying to bring in, adding a unique gameplay element.
- Repo has quality over quantity in maps, with three thoughtfully crafted locations, making gameplay more focused and engaging.
Nowadays, games where you’re risking your life just to make a little bit of spare change hit different. While both Lethal Company and Repo have a semi-similar premise, they both have things that make them stand out from each other in distinct ways and scratch different itches.
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Controls – Lethal Company
Its Versatility Makes It A Winner
Repo’s controls are simple, making them easy for anyone to pick up on the fly and make a living while trying to live. You could even play it one-handed if you’re so inclined. However, as easy as it is, there is one glaring drawback to Repo’s controls that Lethal Company takes into consideration: they lack controller support.
That’s right, if your preference is to hop on the analog sticks, then you’re out of luck, but will be right at home with Lethal Company, provided you tinker around a little bit with the customization. It pays off to be a little more inclusive in the long run, but maybe Repo will fix that in the future.
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Monsters – Repo
The Mechanics Make A Difference
Both games can attest to having a wide variety of creatures that are all out to stop you from making your paycheck one way or another. While Lethal Company has a much wider variety of creatures hellbent on making any planetary visit a much shorter trip than you intended, they all ultimately have the same goal: making you dead.
In Repo, on the other hand, not only will the monsters like gnomes try to take you out with quickness, but they will try and break any items you’re trying to bring in to make some money from. Attacking you is one thing, but your pockets? The audacity! This shakes up the gameplay from more than just ‘survive’ to ‘survive and protect the bag’, making you think of more creative solutions.
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Mod Support – Lethal Company
Customization Is The Spice Of Life
Repo hasn’t had time to build up the community that Lethal Company has, so the library of mods is lacking in comparison to Lethal Company’s robust Mod library, for the time being. Still, it’s too early to tell what the future holds for the game as far as mods go.
On the flip side, Lethal Company is bursting at the seams with any type of mod you can think of. There are practical ones that allow you to increase the player lobby, and there are others that will add even more deadly creatures if you’re feeling extra risky in your endeavors.
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Maps – Repo
Quality Over Quantity
There was a time when games touted their best quality was the number of worlds they were able to procedurally generate within their programming. It sounded impressive at the time, but once you play a game for a while, those worlds start looking the same. Lethal Company has style still going for it, but after a while, its moons do fall victim to the procedural curse as well.
Repo only has three maps, but they are thoughtfully crafted with a theme in mind for each of them: Headman Manor traps you within tight corridors and pitfalls, McJannek Station has a much more open area with few places to hide from creatures, and rounding it out with the darkest map, Swiftbroom Academy, which makes you extra vulnerable to those who can see in the darkness.
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Gameplay – Tie
It Simply Depends On Your Mood
This is where the two circles of the Venn diagram of these two games come the closest to overlapping. You and a group of your friends/coworkers trek through dangerous places for trinkets in exchange for cash. Given that both of these games are set in a dystopian future, it makes sense.
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If you favor a horror-based experience, then you’ll probably have a better time with Lethal Company, but if you want a more tactical time with physics-based chaos, then Repo will be the game you go for. You can’t go wrong no matter which game you decide to play.
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Party Makeup – Repo
Bigger Party Means More Chaos
Let’s not beat around the bush: playing with three other friends is fun, but adding two other characters along with a sort-of-faulty proximity chat and a text chat that provides the creepiest voice, which can go very wrong when you’re trying to hide from something stalking you? It’s frenetic and chaotic, and insatiably fun as well.
That isn’t to say that a party of four can’t be fun as well. It certainly can and has, but you don’t get a six-party makeup often in co-op games like these, so why not celebrate it when it does happen?
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Conclusion – Repo
Inching Out A Victory, But Only Just So
Well there you have it, Repo squeaks out ahead of Lethal Company, but only just barely. There’s something about this game that registers as fun for anyone wanting to give it a shot.
That doesn’t mean Lethal Company is simply going to rest on its early access success either! It’s only going to grow from here, and there’s no telling what is going to be integrated into the game between now and when the game is finally fully released. You can’t go wrong with either, but for now, you’ll get more bang for your time with Repo.
