You bastards. More of you should have bought Murderous Pursuits.

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It’s hard to get a niche multiplayer game going, especially one that requires players to behave themselves. That’s probably why Murderous Pursuits, latest backstab ’em up from Blazing Griffin (makers of The Ship) is free on Steam right now. Not just a free weekend (which it had done previously), but a ‘grab now, keep it forever’ deal. As with The Ship, it’s a game of cat and mouse, now set aboard a futuristic sky-ship with a Victorian veneer. Up to eight players are simultaneously hunting someone, and being hunted by someone else – antics ensue, and a trailer lurks below.

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Whoa whoa, calm down, breeeathe. Now, explain it to me slowly. The RPS podcast did what? They talked about the games that make them panic? Hm. That does sound like something those scoundrels of the Electronic Wireless Show would do. They d probably talk about Subnautica and Duskers and SpyParty. Okay, well stay calm. That s right. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. There s no need to

[The podcast appears from the shadows]>

AAAGGGHHHHHHHHH.

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I want to tell everyone to buy Murderous Pursuits whenever I write about it, but I can’t. It’s a quietly brilliant hunt ‘n’ be hunted multiplayer game in the vein of Assassin’s Creed multiplayer, from the same people who made The Ship: Remasted. The problem is that by ‘quietly’ I mean ‘most of the time there aren’t enough people playing to fill a server’.

Huzzah for free weekends! From 6pm British time tonight until 9pm on Sunday (10am PT today, 1pm PT on Sunday), you can play without spending a penny. The gates have been flung open alongside a free update, which adds a new map, game mode, and two new characters. There’s also a new ability, providing would-be murderers with one more tool to tackle their quarry and fend off attackers. Between the new stuff and actually having people to murder again, I’m eager to hop back in.

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Bit nippy in here, isn t it? Let s throw another game on the fire and warm ourselves with some electro-soup. Yes, it s the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, and this week we re talking about freezing cold city-builder Frostpunk. Katharine lost a third of her people to cold when she forgot to turn the heat on, while Brendan dug up his society s dead because he “needed the space”. Matt is horrified by these tales, but soon proves he s just as horrible when he completes our Frostpunk-themed ethical dilemma quiz. (more…)

That’s a misleading headline. It’d have been more accurate to say Murderous Pursuits has fooled you into thinking it’s not a threat, discarded its AI disguise and stabbed you in the belly with a sabre. It’d be more accurate still to say its a multiplayer assassination game about hunting and being hunted from The Ship: Remasted devs, and that it just came out.

I’ve already told you it’s good. Twice. I’ve since played a few hours of it over the open beta last weekend though – and while I’m still looking forward to tucking into more, I do need to roll back one particular bit of praise. I told you none of the abilities felt overpowered in the way that undermined Ass Creed’s (very similar) multiplayer. That was before I spent the weekend swearing at my screen every time I got flash-bombed.

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“This is what I ve always wanted Assassin s Creed multiplayer to be”, said I in a preview of Murderous Pursuits. It’s a game about hunting and being hunted by Ship: Remasted devs Blazing Griffin, and if you boot up the free open beta this weekend that’ll be doubly true: the devs say they’ll be lurking around, waiting to hit you in the back of the head with a piano leg.

The game comes out on April 26th, so you can treat this as a chance to check out if it contains murders worth pursuing. Or you could just listen to me telling you that it definitely does.

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Murderous Pursuits is The Ship: Remasted crew s latest stab at a multiplayer assassination game, due out next month. Like in previous Ship games, you re given a target to hunt while another player hunts you. Unlike previous Ship games, you’re on a flying boat packed with alternate reality Victorian time-travellers.

The real difference, though, lies in how the devs have fully embraced the joys of NPCamoflauge: the three rounds I’ve played were much closer to the main multiplayer mode from old Assassin’s Creed games than they were to previous versions of The Ship. Turns out that was exactly the right direction to head in.

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