No More Room in Hell 2 resurrects a legendary Source mod as a hardcore co-op zombie FPS

If you didn’t have a gaming PC in 2012 like me, there’s a decent chance your first reaction to a zombie shooter called No More Room in Hell 2 is “Wait, there’s a first one?” I’m just now learning the story of the original No More Room in Hell: That it was a co-op survival horror Source mod directly inspired by George Romero’s films, supported eight players, eventually got a standalone release on Steam, and that it friggin’ ruled. PC Gamer named it Best Mod of 2012, and the free game is still updated by volunteers over a decade later, most recently in June 2024.

A sequel has been in the works from the original team of modders since 2016 under the name Lever Games, but last year that team was gobbled up and absorbed into Chivalry 2 developer Torn Banner Studios, given “quadruple” the resources, and grew from a small team of part-timers to over 40. This is no part-time project anymore. No More Room in Hell 2 takes the original’s claustrophobic Objective maps and blows up the scale—8 players, one huge map, and missions that can be tackled in any order.