Last Year: The Nightmare – From Development Graveyard to Community Resurrection

A multiplayer horror gem that slipped into oblivion—then fans clawed it back from the dead.

🎥 Watch the Last Year: Resurrected Trailer

👻 What Was Last Year: The Nightmare?

Last Year: The Nightmare was an asymmetric survival horror game launched in late 2018 by Elastic Games. Set in a 1996 high school, it pitted five classmates against a terrifying Fiend who could shift between four forms—The Giant, Slasher, Spider, and Strangler—using traps and predator mode to hunt survivors.([turn1search25](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_%28video_game%29))

The game officially released on Steam in December 2019, following a 90‑day Discord-exclusive launch. It garnered a small but dedicated player base before studio collapse took it offline entirely in 2021.([turn1search6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_%28video_game%29))

💥 Development Hell & Studio Bankruptcy

Elastic Games declared bankruptcy in late 2021, and *Last Year* was removed from sale and servers shut down—making the game unplayable even for owners. It vanished from digital storefronts, joining the ranks of cursed horror projects lost to corporate collapse.([turn1search6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_%28video_game%29), [turn1search10](https://steamdb.info/app/511440/))

🧠 Fans Resurrect the Nightmare

Refusing to let the game die, the community launched **Last Year: Resurrected** in 2022—a peer‑to‑peer mod that bypasses server checks and restores playability entirely offline, breathing life back into the abandoned horror. Development began August 11, 2022; public beta arrived in March 2023.([turn1search6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_%28video_game%29))

🔗 Play It Again (With Community Support)

Although *Last Year* is no longer purchasable on Steam, the original Steam page remains archived. Fans who owned the game can still access content via Resurrected mods. You can also explore patches and updated fan patches via Last Year subreddits and Discord.([turn1search2](https://steamcommunity.com/app/511440))

⚡ Why This Cursed Revival Matters

• Preserves a unique horror experience that would’ve vanished.
• Showcases how fan dedication can outlast financial collapse.
• Provides alternate horror history—imagine a world where *Last Year* went mainstream.

🧷 Cursed Gaming Culture Highlight

This is exactly what *Cursed Gaming Culture* lives for: titles buried in institutional collapse only to be rediscovered by devoted fans. Resurrection mods like *Last Year: Resurrected* act as digital exorcisms—saving games from corporate oblivion and keeping them alive for new generations.

🔗 Steam Archive Link

Archived Steam page: Last Year: The Nightmare on Steam (removed from sale, servers offline).([turn1search0](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1195460/Last_Year/))

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