Propnight isn’t just a straight doppelganger of the streamer darling, though. It splices the concept with another cult multiplayer favourite: prop hunt. Originally popularised by a mode for Garry’s Mod, prop hunts allow players to transform into items in order to hide from enemies. In Propnight, all survivors have this ability. Hear a killer striding towards you? You can vanish by turning into a box and stacking yourself on a shelf; run into the corn fields and mimic a scarecrow; or even become a cabbage and roll to safety. So long as it’s within your immediate grasp, you can become a clone of pretty much any item you can see.
In Pronight watching a killer hit everything in a room while you sit disguised as a pumpkin behind them is a punchline that consistently endured through my multiple matches. This is aided by an appealing visual style; the four different killers all look as if they just walked off the set of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, while the survivors include a Billie Eilish doppelganger that Epic Games could lift wholesale if she ever did a Fortnite concert. It’s a style that scrubs away horror’s usual grime, but retains a distinct sense of character; there’s still a final girl, a confident jock, and a nun-like banshee ready to shriek until your eardrums burst.

SCREENSHOTS

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS