DUBIUM
Among Us meets Dead By Daylight in a game of uneasy alliances
Developer/ publisher Mumo Studio
Format PC
Origin Korea
Release Early 2022 (Early Access)
That name sounds like a fictional mineral in a science-fiction B-movie – the kind of substance that turns out to be, as the kids say, a bit sus. Yes, there’s no escaping the fact that this social-deduction multiplayer game, set on a spaceship where a traitor plots against an unwitting foursome, is riding the coattails of Among Us to a certain degree. Yet it’s no bandwagon jumper: Dubium was conceived in 2018, just before Innersloth’s game was released, and at least two years before it suddenly became a phenomenon.
Besides, another asymmetrical multiplayer game is more firmly embedded in its DNA.
Mumo Studio initially wanted to make a game that captured the tension of Dead By Daylight, but without such an overt horror influence.