Let the games begin!
Eager for a new game to play with your buddies? Want to take questionable substances and fight security? S.E.M.I (Short for Side Effects May Include) is a co-op game made for the kind of people that don’t want to take their gaming sessions with friends too seriously.
You play a group of patients in a… special facility. One that had guards and straitjackets, but quite a few moving platforms and switches, too. You want to get out. The staff don’t think you should get out.
But you have a will to try, several similarly determined, if potentially incompetent friends, and various questionable pills. Let the games begin.
Escape The Men In White Coats
So what is the core gameplay of S.E.M.I? Well, you and your friends try to find a way out of the clinic, by any means necessary. That won’t be easy, though.
There are guards, there are traps, and there are puzzles that you may need to work as a team to solve.
Drugs Are Bad/Good
There are also experimental pills, which might be a good thing or a bad thing. These can give you special powers, but also have their own potential downsides. Alice Syndrome can make you huge, or tiny. Laser Astigmatism lets you shoot… but with two sights, and you will only hit one of them.
It gets pretty chaotic pretty quickly, and even more chaotic when you add friends who want to watch the world burn… which is most people playing this kind of game, let’s be honest.
Sound like your speed? You can wishlist the game now on Steam, or check out the free demo to try the straitjacket on for size.
If you’d like to keep up with the latest developments for S.E.M.I, there are a few options to do so. You can join with official Discord and get notifications for major developments. You can also check out the Twitter/X account, or the Telegram Devlog. For more content on the game, make sure to check out the official TikTok, or the developer’s YouTube Channel.
