The night shift doesn't have to be a solo job anymore. Bring up to three friends, share the work, and find out who freezes first when something comes out of the fog. To celebrate, Goo Deer is 34% off until November 14.
Online co-op for up to four players
- Pick Multiplayer on the main menu to host a game or join one. Host a public game, or lock it with a password.
- Invite friends through Steam, or find a game in the server browser.
- Run one store together with one shared wallet. In co-op, the crew is the staff: stocking, pricing, the register, cleaning, fires, raids, the basement machines and the hunt are all up to you.
- Share items and ammo with your teammates, and talk in the crew chat. Both work with a controller.
- Your character is saved in your friend's world, so your gear is waiting when you come back. Co-op worlds are kept separate from your solo save.
- Hunting as a crew? The forest fights back harder.
Down, not out
- In co-op, a bad night in the forest doesn't end your run. When you go down, your crew has a short time to reach you and revive you.
- If nobody makes it in time, you wake up at the woods cabin without the gear you had on you.
- While you're down, you can watch your teammates.
Co-op achievements and leaderboard
- Ten new co-op achievements, each earned by the player who pulls it off.
- Co-op runs get their own leaderboard, and the whole crew shares the credit.
A new customer: the shoplifter
- Some customers don't plan to pay. When a shoplifter strikes, you'll get an alert.
- Catch him before he gets away and the goods go back on the shelves. Playing solo? A hired security guard will handle him for you.
Play in 25 languages
- Goo Deer is now fully translated into Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Latin America), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), German, French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Italian, Thai, Ukrainian, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Romanian and Vietnamese.
- Change language in the new Language tab in Settings. By default the game uses your Steam language.
A better leaderboard
- Sort by money, days or products sold, and see how you stack up against your friends.
- Every player's achievements are shown next to their name.
- To keep things fair, edited saves and Easy runs no longer post scores.
Running the store
- Label shelves for one product, and your stock boy fills them first.
- Choose how much of each product the basement operator keeps in stock.
- Move furniture without emptying it first, and switch snapping off when you want to.
- Fighting off raiders now pays, and you're warned the moment a fire starts.
- The checkout counter has moved to the front window.
- Game over now tells you what brought the store down.
- Also new: two music tracks, longer sunsets and sunrises, and an unread-mail badge on the office PC.
Difficulty and balance
- Easy is now truly relaxed: no fires, and a deadly run-in in the forest won't end your game. Easy runs don't earn achievements or post scores.
- New stores get a gentler start: eight boxes of Classic Goo Deer, calmer first customers and cheaper staff for the first few days.
- Some machine upgrades are now cheaper or make more.
Performance and settings
- Your first launch picks graphics settings that suit your PC.
- Smoother performance in the store and the forest, and fewer hitches when the game saves.
- Goo Deer now runs on DirectX 12 only.
Fixes
Hundreds of fixes for customers, staff, machines, furniture, traps and the forest, many of them reported by you. Thank you!
Good to know
- Your solo save carries over.
- Everyone in a co-op game needs the latest version. The game tells you if someone needs to update.
Thanks for playing, reporting bugs and climbing the leaderboard. Tell us how your first crew shift went on the Goo Deer Discord or in the Community Hub. Watch the treeline.