Open Beta for Nightmare Reaper’s Cooperative Multiplayer Mode is Live!

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Open Beta for Nightmare Reaper’s Cooperative Multiplayer Mode is Live!

The nightmare grows stronger, but this time, you don’t have to face it alone!

We’re excited to announce the Open Beta for Nightmare Reaper’s cooperative multiplayer mode, starting RIGHT NOW! For the first time ever, you’ll be able to dive into the game alongside your friends to rip, tear, and reap together.

How to Join the Open Beta

To take part in the multiplayer Open Beta, here’s what you’ll need:

A copy of Nightmare Reaper (required for access).
Join the official Discord: https://discord.gg/u2pdcGY
Request Beta access directly in the Discord.

What to Expect

Full Co-op Gameplay – Play through the entire Nightmare Reaper experience with up-to-4 of your friends.
Community Events – Stress tests and community-driven sessions are planned to push multiplayer to its limits.
Bug Hunting – Players are encouraged to report issues and send crash logs to help polish the build. (This isn’t enforced, but every report helps make the game stronger!)

Why Join?

This Beta is more than just early access to multiplayer! It’s a chance to:

Help uncover obscure and hidden bugs.
Strengthen the growing Nightmare Reaper community.
Be a part of development with your feedback and gameplay data.

Duration

The Beta will begin September 2nd, 2025 and will run for an undisclosed period of time while development continues and the build is polished.



Nightmare Reaper is a dark and violent meld of retro and modern action games, inspired by the classic 2.5D first-person shooters of the 90s. Progress through the cursed depths of a nightmare while finding an arsenal of powerful weapons and improving your abilities along the way. This retro-inspired FPS with looter shooter and rogue-lite elements breaches the wall between classic and modern gameplay. Each of the three chapters is 7-10 hours long and is highly replayable.

Key Features:

Intense and addictive gameplay - Tons of enemies are crammed in open-ended levels full of surprises and geysers of blood and treasure.
Character progression - Use the gold you find to purchase tons of character upgrades and new abilities via nostalgic minigames.
Ludicrous weapon variety - 80 unique weapons (58 in EA) that can drop as loot and can contain a funky mix of over 30 enchantment types.
Music and audio by Andrew Hulshult from Doom Eternal - The badass tunes in Nightmare Reaper add to the retro vibe and are DMCA free.
Non-intrusive story - The mystery of the nightmare adds to the desire to keep playing.
Multiple game modes - Campaign, Endless, New Game+, and Challenge modes offer high replayability.
A mix of manual and random level generation - Tons of random events and secrets to discover.

About Blazing Bit Games

A small studio dedicated to making great indie games, founded by Bruno Beaudoin, programmer by trade, former Ubisoft Montreal Network Programmer and passionate gamer, since the Atari 2600. Nightmare Reaper is our most ambitious project yet and we've recruited the help of amazing people to deliver our vision.