
Battle for survival against endless alien hordes with your friends! The Anacrusis is a first-person shooter that dynamically adjusts difficulty to you. Experience intense 1-4 player co-op action or play as the aliens and stop your friends in 1-8 player Versus mode. Full Steam Workshop support!
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Battle for survival against endless alien hordes with your friends! The Anacrusis is a 1-8 player, sci-fi first-person shooter. Experience intense 4 player co-op action or play as the aliens and stop your friends in Versus mode. We even have solo versus against bots avaialble. Make sure to check out the Steam Workshop support!
Make sure to check out the settings menu for all the available options before launching a match!
With our updates out, we are currently out of sync with Xbox players, if you want to cross play go into the steam setting for the game and enter XBOX in the beta password.
Even with these ongoing community updates - we want to acknowledge for anyone buying this today, the community online is small.
You most likely will not find many active games online to match into but - it's a great game to play with your friends, solo or join our community where there are always people looking for games along with regular game nights, mod testing and more.
Fight Aliens Using Fantastical Weapons

Battle the alien menace using an astounding arsenal of classic sci-fi weapons. Buy yourself some time with a stasis grenade, toss a shield grenade to provide instant cover while you pop off a heal, and bring your friends back to life using the Respawner. Or throw caution to the wind and burn friend and foe alike with the laser rifle.
Ever want to kill everything all at once!?!? Enable community weapons and include some of the more outlandish weapons from the workshop!

PVP comes to The Anacrusis! The goals are simple, Survivors need to reach the end of the level and the Aliens must keep them from their goal. Take control of the Brute, Flasher, Grabber, Gooper, and Spawner and keep your friends from escaping the level. Tuned for intense co-op PVP play with teams of 2, 3, or 4 players, or take on the bots in a private match to practice playing the aliens.

In the distant future, mighty corporations have carried humanity to the fringes of the galaxy. After expanding unfettered across tens of thousands of systems--all devoid of intelligent life--humanity has grown complacent, until disaster strikes. Work together and survive the alien hordes!

The first season of The Anacrusis tells the story of four unlikely survivors--Nessa, Guion, Liu, and Lance--who are unwilling combatants in the battle to defend humanity from the alien menace. Play more and unlock more of the unfolding mystery of the alien attack.

In The Anacrusis, the AI Driver controls every aspect of the game. It spawns every enemy, directs each boss, and places every weapon, gadget, and health kit. No matter your skill level, you'll find the perfect level of challenge. More than that, the AI Driver creates the kinds of video game moments that you can’t wait to tell your friends about.

We've posted over 60 updates to The Anacrusis since launch, and we couldn't have done it without our incredible community of Early Access players. and share your feedback with us.

We think co-op games are better with mods, which is why The Anacrusis includes Steam Workshop support for new campaigns, holdout maps, character skins, character accessories, gun charms, and animations, with more to come. Even better, the mods you load are automatically displayed for your friends to see when you play the game. Want to create mods for The Anacrusis? Join our Discord - for updates and conversation about mod support.

Matter compilers spread throughout the game give you access to dozens of perks that will change the way you play. Stack all of your upgrades to power up the last-resort pistol or boost your defense by supercharging your shield pulse. Unlock new perks as you play, and share your unlocks with everyone on your team!
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Languages: English*, French, German, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Korean*languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Reviews
不太行,优化问题挺多,已经没什么人玩了
i buy it for 1 euro and i want my money back
可以把0.4还给我吗
ITS A GOOD CO OP game i like it plays fine on the steamdeck no issues
四人合作 第一人称的射击游戏 探索宇宙飞船 合作对抗一群外星人 解锁技能 武器 玩法多样 但偏俗套 算是及格 勉强可玩吧
Está regular, parece un Early Access, el sonido de verdad no me gustó, es lo peor. El aspecto de rendimiento tampoco, porque de un momento a otro me baja de 90 fps a solo 30 y con lag. Supongo que para jugar con amigos está ok, y solo si está en super ofera merece la pena en el estado actual.
Un estilo prometedor diluido en una ejecución deficiente. Lamento no poder recomendar este título. A pesar de haber sido lanzado hace varios años y de seguir recibiendo actualizaciones, cuenta con carencias profundas que lastran la experiencia. Tengo entendido que el estudio ha dejado el grueso del peso en la comunidad; valientes son aquellos usuarios que perseveran y se hacen cargo de mantener vivo el proyecto ante un soporte oficial que se siente distante. En un principio, la interfaz y la distribución visual resultan atractivas, al igual que las animaciones de introducción. Sin embargo, tras unos pocos clics, la sensación se torna insatisfactoria: el juego se siente vacío e incómodo. La inmersión se rompe constantemente; los diálogos no transmiten emoción ni logran adentrarte en la situación, y la música suele desaparecer, dejando paso a muestras de sonido que no encajan con la atmósfera pretendida. Si bien el juego logra concretar una identidad estética propia, la ambientación se queda a medias. El diseño sonoro es, quizás, el punto más flojo: faltan muchísimos efectos y el sonido de las armas es genérico, sin lograr conectar con el usuario. No se sienten sólidas ni consistentes; hay mucho que pulir en cuanto a precisión y daño. Como punto positivo, destaco el reemplazo del cuerpo a cuerpo por una onda expansiva para bloquear ataques y la posibilidad de mejorar estadísticas durante la partida. La optimización es deficiente. Incluso utilizando DLSS (en perfiles de Calidad o Rendimiento) a una resolución 1080p, los fotogramas no son estables ni alcanzan tasas competitivas. El uso de la CPU se dispara inexplicablemente en situaciones de total tranquilidad. Visualmente, el título debería ofrecer mucho más considerando el estándar actual. Asimismo, las animaciones y el pathfinding de los mutantes requieren un trabajo urgente. Un punto crítico es que los mutantes especiales no logran concretar una identidad sólida. Por ejemplo, el enemigo que debería cumplir el rol imponente del "Tank" de Left 4 Dead no logra transmitir peligro; se siente torpe y su IA es errática, lo que empeora notablemente el encuentro. Su diseño no conecta con la atmósfera y termina sintiéndose como un enemigo genérico "del montón", restándole peso a la tensión que debería generar un título de este género. Lo rescatable es la capacidad de personalizar al personaje, la opción de hostear servidores locales y el Steam Workshop, que hoy es el pilar que sostiene al juego. En cuanto al diseño de mapas, cumplen visualmente pero no logran conectar con la narrativa; no transmiten esa inquietud o inseguridad necesaria, resultando en escenarios sombríos pero que a veces se sienten vacíos de propósito. Falta muchísimo trabajo por hacer. Me gustó la idea de mutantes que dificultan la visión, pero no compensan las fallas generales. No puedo recomendarlo cuando existen entregas mucho mejor pulidas por el mismo precio o incluso menos
A good L4D type of coop/versus game. The enemies are identical or analogous to L4D. The dialogues at the start of the episodes are pretty entertaining. During the game, characters will sometimes comment on the environment to provide background story. One cool thing is game customization. You can give yourself infinite ammo, set the amount of special weapons spawns. it will quickly become too easy or too hard, but it's always nice to be able to tinker with gameplay. Some of the levels are a little repetitive, walking through the same corridors. But there are also memorable ones, like going through the park full of grass and flowers with infinite horde. The game is not very populated. I only managed to find a public game once, on a Sunday I think. There's a Discord server where they play a Versus game every week with a full team, but note they play at around 4 AM GMT. EDIT: Their Discord server members are not very mature, and people get easily pissed when you have different opinions. So ehm yea..
刚玩完了僵队4,和他是同一个类型的游戏,所以评价会比较犀利,我原本是想把主线打通之后再来评价,玩了一个点玩的怀疑人生了 我唯一能想到的优点就是枪械设计和美术风格,这种既复古又有点未来科幻的画风我还是挺喜欢,枪械设计只能说有想法,仅此而已不至于给这个游戏扣分就已经算是优点了 缺点太多了,数不过来,您贵公司见过人吗,见过人类的建模吗,那角色建模看了一眼恐怖谷效应犯了,自己建模做的不好还要放在大厅主页丢人现眼,给你的人机队友是sz,啥也不会干,被抓了不知道救你,被封了不知道打毒囊,打击感也是一坨,一大坨,我之前还因为僵队4的打击感不好给扣分,这么一对比前者简直是一股清流,子弹打在怪身上完全没有正反馈,是空了还是中了都分不出来,地图引导和任务引导都是一坨,要去哪?不知道,要干啥?不知道,优化更是一坨,怪少的时候还好,一有丧尸潮直接卡成ppt,说到丧尸这块还有个更恶心人的存在,那个闪光怪,您贵游是怎么制作出这种能对游戏角色和游戏外的玩家同时造成伤害的存在,每次一碰到闪光怪都会对眼睛造成暴击,这可不是什么怪物特色、特色设计,这就是粪怪,用来恶心玩家的达芬,僵队4也是和这个一样类求生之路的游戏,还是同一个价位的,真的是天差地别 总结:达芬一坨,伤人身体、废人钱财,玩他就是浪费时间浪费钱,宁可拿着钱去给tx充首充,也别买这游戏玩
A very enjoyable game! This isn't going to make you never want to play Left 4 Dead ever again, but it is very much worth its price tag (especially on sale). I found the AI to be less annoying than in Left 4 Dead, and I think the gun-play was decent, the game ran pretty well on my mid-range build from 2021/2022ish. I really enjoyed how some of the levels look, the first episode really clicked with me visually for some reason. I would say that Left 4 Dead has better levels, but I mean this is a game made by a small team, not Valve. I think too many people come in expecting a Left 4 Dead killer, and then when it's not better than a triple-a game, they get disappointed. This is in many ways like Left 4 Dead, but it does some things different, some things worse, some things better, and for 2.50 on sale or 10 bucks off sale, it's a fun time. This is a game that I will be coming back to, like Left 4 Dead 2, and such. The game lacks polish in places, it feels a bit unfinished, but it's a good time, I hope it'll get updates in the future.
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