The Headliners on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Co-op horror game where you play in teams of 1 to 8 reckless journalists, ready to explore a city overrun by deadly creatures to snap spectacular footage. Your only goal: make the headlines without becoming one.

The Headliners is a online co-op, horror and co-op game developed and published by KAFI.
Released on January 30th 2025 is available only on Windows in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish and Croatian.

It has received 4,507 reviews of which 3,891 were positive and 616 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.3 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.23€ on Steam and has a 20% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Headliners into these genres:

Online Co-Op Horror Co-op Action Funny Multiplayer Indie Action-Adventure Team-Based Gore Destruction First-Person Atmospheric Dark Singleplayer Souls-like Violent Survival Horror Psychological Horror

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System requirements

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Windows

OS: Windows 10 (64 bits)
Processor: Intel Core i5-4440 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 9 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

High recommend for some goofs and scares with friends! Everyone having the ability to capture their own pictures and then review them after each mission adds a ton to the experience, I only wish there was a way to recover lost cameras and get the photos off them. Super impressive take on the genre and from a team of 2. :)

Feb. 2025

"The Headliners" VS "Content Warning" Headliners definitely has a lot better premise and setting. It's not just a generic, spooky, creepypasta, lovecraftian plane where you goof off over and over again. It's a lot more comparable to something like Cloverfield or Gantz. It's in a very urban, big-city environment with friendly civilians and military running around, and that really sets it apart from something like Content Warning or Lethal Company. However, The Headliners really needs video recording (or at least a few seconds of audio attached to each picture?) in order to pull ahead of Content Warning. There's only so much fun that you can pull out of "Oooo, look at this picture of you in front of a monster! Lol" over and over and over again. The videos that I've saved from playing Content Warning with a buddy are some of the most treasured and memorable moments I have on MP4. The pics from Headliners?... I forget about them completely ten seconds after I see them. It's a really good game, but it has the potential to completely stomp Content Warning and Lethal Company in 2025 if they choose their next updates very carefully. 7.5/10 for me.

Feb. 2025

I have played a lot of co-op games. This one scratched an itch I've haven't been able to scratch for a while. Imagine me walking through Times Square, boots on the ground, first responder to the impending invasion. Me and my buddy are grabbing photos of the action. > Soldiers are fighting monsters > Civilians are being picked off the streets. > Carnage everywhere you look! > Suddenly, Kaiju level alien comes in and wipes out everyone and everything in it's path. I'm taking pictures and dodging debris, grabbing the "money shot". Suddenly an entire bus comes flying into my friend, blood and guts litter the streets, his limbs scattered everywhere. So what do I do in my moment of panic? I take a selfie with his corpse and made a run for it to the helicopter. Highly recommend this game!!

Jan. 2025

Great concept, but needs more interiors, maps and monsters. For now 2.5 hours of fun, then gets old.

Jan. 2025

I don't tend to leave reviews after a few hours, but given that the game is cheap and has a 20% release discount, I will say I'm already getting that price worth of fun with what it offers. Hopefully it gets long term support because there's a lot of potential. The premise is pretty simple: Aliens invade, and as a reporter from New York, you go out there and try to get photos without dying. Basically Cloverfield: The Game. You arrive outside in a chopper and make your way to buildings. (enterable buildings are marked with green doors) While the outside is always the same, the insides are randomized. They're not procedurally-generated like in Lethal Company, but the same door will lead you to a TV station one time and a mall another time. And while the rooms are the same, I did notice clutter and furniture being different even in the same interiors. While hunting for photos, you'll come across fleeing civilians, military, and most obvious of all: strange alien creatures. All of them are worth various amount of points, and your goal is to have enough after 3 runs to go to the next level. (kinda like a quota in Lethal Company) When you complete a quota, you get money to buy gear upgrades (unfortunately not much money, meaning few players get to play with new toys) and go to the next location, more dangerous. The photo taking is pretty good. It's gonna have some quirks which you'll expect if you've played any game that asks you to take photos of stuff, but it's behaved pretty well for me so far. Just try not to take photos behind too much clutter if you can. I've only played solo so far, and I'm having more trouble than the groups I've been watching play the game. That being said, it's still really fun and I like the challenge. (I've only reached the second location/quota as I'm writing this) It's definitely balanced for a group currently, there's no bonuses for single player as far as I can tell. For the price, I don't think you can go wrong.

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-20% 7.79€ 6.23€

8.3

3,891

616

Online players

1,127

Developer

KAFI

Publisher

KAFI

Release 30 Jan 2025

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