Anarchy: Wolf's Law

Anarchy: Wolf's Law is a first-person shooter with RPG, survival, management and economic strategy elements, set in a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world. In a 9-square-kilometre open world, you fight for territory, resources and influence, develop production, manage the economy and improve your character’s skills. The region has no government or law, and not every area is safe. A dynamic day-and-night cycle brings dangerous creatures out after dark.

Capture and defend territory

You discover locations and capture strategic points to establish control over the industrial hinterland. Each point has economic value, and owning combinations of points can greatly increase their potential. Keep facility infrastructure in working order to maximise profits; it can be damaged over time or by a rival saboteur who enters your territory.

You can invest money to strengthen a point’s defenses by adding defense bots or improving their combat quality. Investment can also raise the amount of money other players need to capture the point. You must choose how to allocate your resources, such as strengthening one position heavily or developing two to an average level.

Play and compete

Each player in a room plays an individual single-player game, while global positions are synchronised among room members. Capturing a strategic point makes it yours for everyone in the room, and its upgraded defenses affect how difficult it is for the others to take. You can compete with friends or random players through this indirect multiplayer system; you do not play directly together, but your actions can affect one another’s games.

At objectives, you can choose Stealth mode or an open confrontation in Arcade mode. Stealth can be useful in high-difficulty areas, where alerted defenses are more dangerous but stealth can bring greater rewards. Arcade mode can provide a rebuilding point near captured positions and, depending on your character’s training, bonuses when revived. These bonuses cost in-game money.

A mobile app lets you handle economic matters and receive alerts about attempts to recapture your points. You can use it to strengthen defenses or collect profits, but uncollected profits can be stolen. Rivals who enter your territory may rob or sabotage a point even if they cannot take control of it.

Weapons and vehicles

The game includes pistols, submachine guns and machine guns, as well as cars, trucks and helicopters. Passenger cars help you travel between locations, trucks carry economically important cargo, and only highly influential players can afford to maintain a helicopter.