Start each run with one Survivor, then recruit allies and build a full three-person squad. Stay solo, run as a duo, or unleash a full team and turn the battlefield into a storm of bullets, blades, fire, explosions, and destruction.

Between runs, keep pushing your team further through permanent upgrades. During each run, discover items that enhance, reshape, or completely change the way your build works. Some combinations start strong. Others become absurdly powerful.

Between runs, return to the Survivors' Base, meet your squad away from the battlefield, and take on character missions with new objectives. Each mission reveals another part of the Survivors' stories and how they ended up fighting by your side.

Listen in on radio transmissions, catch conversations between members of the team, and learn what brought them together. The story is there when you want it, but never gets in the way of your next run.

Every area brings its own layout, enemies, and hazards to master. The battlefield itself can become part of the threat, forcing you to keep moving, adapt your positioning, and rethink the build that worked perfectly somewhere else.