PANICORE for Windows

PANICORE is a cooperative horror survival game where players take on the role of urban explorers trapped in eerie, abandoned buildings. As they uncover dark secrets and confront unknown horrors, teamwork becomes essential to survival. This action game mixes exploration, puzzle-solving, and stealth to create a tense, terrifying escape experience.

In PANICORE, players must find hidden items, solve environmental puzzles, and evade a powerful AI monster hunting them through dimly lit hallways. Each game presents multiple escape paths, encouraging strategy and collaboration. With danger around every corner and limited time to act, players must stay alert to survive.

Team-based survival and classic design

PANICORE emphasizes co-op gameplay, allowing players to team up in small groups to explore dangerous locations together. Communication and coordination are key, with each player handling different tasks during escape. The dynamic objective system encourages replayability and strategy. However, solo play is significantly more difficult and less engaging, limiting the game’s appeal for those who prefer to play alone without relying on teamwork or group coordination.

The game’s standout feature is its AI-driven monster that reacts to player noise and movement. This enemy listens for footsteps and forces players to hide, creating high-stakes hide-and-seek scenarios. Players can take shelter in cabinets, beneath furniture, or behind objects to outsmart the predator. However, some sessions can feel repetitive due to frequent item-hunting, which may disrupt the tension and slow down the pacing of the experience.

To escape, players must find and use the right items hidden throughout the map. Keys, tools, and clues are scattered and must be combined correctly to unlock doors or access new areas. While multiple escape routes add variety and encourage exploration, the overall gameplay loop lacks major innovation, offering familiar mechanics that may feel overly derivative to seasoned fans of the co-op horror genre.

Ideal for tactical, intense gameplay fans

PANICORE delivers a tense co-op horror experience focused on teamwork, puzzle-solving, and survival. With immersive environments, an AI-driven monster, and multiple escape paths, it keeps players on edge. While it doesn’t reinvent the genre, its mix of stealth, item hunting, and replayable scenarios makes it a solid choice for fans of strategic, multiplayer horror, especially for those who enjoy strategic, high-stress gameplay.

• Added more randomized spooky stuff
• Added lobby code to the computer in the lobby
• Added low oxygen special ability to submarine monster
• Added a sound for the quick time reaction wheel
• Added "Oxygen Mode" as a game mode
• Added "Outbreak Mode" as a game mode including new enemies & gameplay mechanics
• Added Oxygen Tank item for low oxygen gameplay
• Graphical changes to all maps, changed to have a more "dangerous" look
• New Main Menu music
• No Instant Death mode now respawns players far away from monsters (works best with only 1 monster on map)
• Slightly Increased normal walking speed and crouch walk speed
• Implemented a failsafe for PAINCORE+ difficulty achievement not being triggered