Did you like Phasmaphobia but thought “maaan this would be cooler if it was in space, and it was kinda like Alien”? Enter Species: Unknown, a 1-4 player co-op survival horror where you enter a derelict ship, investigate the carnage, discover what alien murdered everything, and then try to get out alive.
This one is getting some praise and some momentum, just hitting 250K players. I’m definitely going to grab this when pay day rolls around with some friends - it looks great!
3 seems fine. The balancing was tied into the number of deaths so more players will have more power to do things but fewer retries and, while 1 would be brutal or impossible, 2 would make it harder to complete certain actions but you’d have the revives to make a few mistakes and still come back as long as you have good teamwork.
If only flamethrowers could be used to defeat the monster that is ‘scheduling difficulties…’