Mimic Hunt
A downloadable Mimic Hunt for Windows
Mimic Hunt is a 4 months Master 2 project made on Unreal Engine between October 2024 and January 2025 !
GAME CONCEPT
Mimic Hunt is a 4 players cooperative online FPS in which you hunt dangerous and deceiving creatures. It takes inspiration from other games like Lethal Company, Prop Hunt & Phasmophobia for mid to hard-core hunters seeking a high-quality, thrilling, and scary experience with funny social interactions.
The Mimic Hunters earn money by killing mimics, which are dangerous parasites that hide inside human belongings. The rule is simple :
ANYTHING CAN BE A MIMIC.
These monsters will hide, ambush and challenge you at all costs. In a team of up to four hunters, each member will be equipped with a gun and a tool. You must cooperate and strategize to achieve your mission and, hopefully, survive.
HEADQUARTERS
You start in the HQ, which serves as a HUB to join and invite friends using the lobby code. Pay attention to the environment, you might find some helpful advice. You can also choose from 3 tools at your disposal on the workbench :
| • a Mimic Whistle, to have sound feedback on their position. • an Ice Spray, to slow down the mimics. • an Ammunition Box, to refill the team's ammo. |  |
Split the items, discuss tactics, and then enter the truck to start the hunt !
You can get a glimpse of a run below if you'd like, but skip this part if you want to keep the surprise.
FUTURE DEVELOPMENT & PLACEHOLDERS
Mimic Hunt is currently still in development, contains some placeholders, and is planned to be released on Steam during 2025 for free.
Current major placeholders :
- Tutorial texts in the HQ
- Mission results screen
If you have any feedback, you can adress them in the comment section !
CREDITS
Core Team
Jérémy L. Auclair - Programmer
Tom D’Export - Network Programmer
Laura Moget - Environment Artist
Florian Caron - Game Artist
Simon Ruiz - UX/UI Designer
Alexandre Agniel-Roux - UX & UR
Franziska Blank - Game/Combat Designer
Léo Zinani Debaecker - Game/Level Designer
Frédéric Kukovicic - Sound Designer
Timothée Bolla - Producer
Extern
Maïa - 2D Artist
Clothilde - 2D Artist
Enzo Duret - VFX
Benjamin Philipot - Trailer
Download
Install instructions
- Gather up to 3 friends
- Download .zip file and make sure you have the same version as your friends !
- Extract the files
- Plug in a headset and a microphone
- Double click the .exe
- Hunt Mimics together ;)
Comments
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Hi, I've been playing with some friends, several times with 2, then 4, and we wanted to suggest a few ideas for the game, the game is great and amazing, well done students! but there are a few things to add (in our opinion).
Here's the list:
- Gadgets to heal/reanimate, or objects on the maps that can heal or reanimate a dead player.
- Or for the reanimation system, when you kill a monster, you can pick up a heart or other object to reanimate your ally.
- Adapt the difficulty to the number of players.
- A store or level system to buy better weapons (melee, etc...).
The CREATE LOBBY button does not work :'(
Hello, by not working do you mean that it does absolutely nothing or that it does launch a lobby but that your friends can't join
it does absolutely nothing
Do you get a warning or pop up from the Windows firewall ? CREATE LOBBY sends a requests to the Epic Games services and once it gets the answer, it teleports you in the newly created lobby. If the firewall is blocking the request, it may be the reason for the problem.
Are you on a Windows 10 or higher computer connected to the internet ?
Hello, I'm on WINDOWS 11 and no warnings or pop ups but I added the game in the firewall and nothing, even if Epic games is launched and Steam, nothing allows me to enter.
Ok I made it, I just need to open it in administrator mode 😂.
Thanks for the help !
The file isn’t on Google Drive anymore. Is there a chance that this game could get uploaded to itch.io again? :3
Hello, sorry for the delay, it's fixed !
Thank you so much! ^w^ I can’t wait to try this out with friends, hehe :3c