Team up with four other Classmates to survive against a sixth player controlling a dreadful, horrifying Fiend, in this evolution of multiplayer horror games inspired by classic horror stories.

For these Classmates, their last year of high school might be their last year of life. After being transported to a nightmarish copy of their hometown through an occult game of cards, six classmates soon find out that they are not alone, and that to escape, they’ll have to work together against all manner of Fiends lurking in the shadows.

Which Classmate will you pick? Choose from 6 Classmates, and assign them a Class to get special skills. The more you work well with your Classmates, the better your chances of survival. And the more you survive, the more Arcane Secrets you learn, unlocking powerful magical abilities to take the fight to the Fiends.

Elastic Games has an amazing story to share about their journey to bring their hit passion project, multi-player horror game Last Year, back to life.

This is an inspiring story that needs to be shared. Their story is one of a small indie studio with a big game, a seemingly successful launch, and the rapid growth of a massive community around it almost overnight. It’s also the story of the dire consequences of losing a storefront and publisher, and the pain of letting their fans down. But this is a comeback story where commitment to the fans pushes an indie studio to change their business model, and pour everything into a game relaunch. And the moral of this story is to stay true to your community.

Elastic Games is a passionate 20-person indie team based in Montreal, Canada. While small in size their diverse team includes industry veterans from much bigger players like WB and Ubisoft. They’ve used that experience and passion in creating a truly unique survival horror experience called Last Year. A 6-player match game, where 5 players work together as a Team of Classmates trying to escape and survive the night, vs the 6th player who is the Fiend, hunting the others down, and murdering each in the most gruesome ways possible. They launched the prologue Chapter, Last Year: The Nightmare, at the end of 2018 exclusively on Discord’s new app store that was designed to compete with the likes of Steam.

They immediately found a massive community ready for such an innovative offering. But within months, Discord unexpectedly shut down their storefront and Elastic lost their only platform and publisher. They now had angry fans who wanted their game back, and no way to get it to them. Without a storefront, they couldn’t do something as basic to business as sell their product. Most small companies wouldn’t survive this scenario. The easy answer would be to port the game to Steam but they knew that was a disservice to the community. The players wanted real change. So, they put their heads down and pushed through the darkness. They poured in their blood, sweat, and tears all over again but this time they had the feedback the community had given them.

Using that feedback and learning from their mistakes they spent the last 12 months building an amazing new chapter to be launched on Steam on December 11th, 2019. The incredible community around Last Year has been the engaging force that Elastic Games needed to keep going in 2019, even when everything seemed to be falling apart. As a special thank you to that community who supported them and purchased Last Year: The Nightmare, Elastic is gifting them all with a free copy of the game on Steam, which includes a brand new expansion, Chapter 1: Afterdark!

Supernatural entities living in The Nightmare, the dreadful Fiends take the form of quintessential horror archetypes, and each have unique powers, weapons and play-styles. Decide whether to attack the Classmates head-on, or meticulously plan your attacks by setting up traps, preparing ambushes, and toying with your prey.

Free content updates in the form of Chapters will bring new, terrifying Fiends and ever-more-dreadful areas inspired by different genres of horror, and more, changing up the gameplay and making Last Year the ultimate multiplayer horror experience.

Last Year: The Nightmare is coming to Steam on December 11th, 2019.