R.E.P.O. is Steam's latest viral horror despite its high mate requirement - but the devs are working on matchmaking

R.E.P.O is a six player co-op extraction spooper that currently sits atop Steam's best seller charts, having amassed around 70k players the week following early access launch on Feb 26, and another 160k since then. That's around 230 thousand players avoiding knifey chef frogs and persistent ducklings while extracting valuables to fill a cash quota. It's a bit Lethal Company but even heavier on the absurdity.As far as I can tell, this popularity comes down to two things. Firstly, the game is a ve...