Beat Survival

Beat Survival is a pixel-style, open-world survival action horror RPG set during a zombie outbreak. You scavenge, craft, fight and complete missions while managing your character’s needs and trying to survive as long as possible. You can play alone or with a friend in two-player local co-op.

Explore the world

The large open world includes towns, forests, rivers, tall buildings, apartments, hospitals, lakes, islands and abandoned facilities, each with different risks and rewards. You can search abandoned buildings and dangerous locations for food, water, supplies and rare loot, while watching for deadly traps. The game includes winter, spring, summer and autumn, each with its own challenges; rain, heat, freezing nights and darkness affect play.

The world simulates the spread of the outbreak: anything that dies can turn into a zombie, so threats can grow the longer you survive. Wildlife may attack, and NPCs can be friendly or hostile. Weather and nightfall can also change how enemies behave.

Scavenge, craft and fight

You can craft hundreds of items, including weapons, tools, traps, explosives and equipment. Other ways to prepare include dismantling furniture, breaking into rooms, boarding up windows and doors, farming, fishing and chopping down trees.

Combat includes firearms and melee weapons such as machetes and axes. You can also throw objects—including chairs, garbage bins and bodies—burn enemies with Molotovs, set traps or build explosive devices. Any creature you kill may turn into a zombie afterward, keeping danger unpredictable.

Develop your skills

Completing missions earns skill points that unlock abilities. These include carpentry, cooking, crafting, fishing, swimming, electrics, healing others, repairing items, driving vehicles, commanding NPCs, stealing and throwing a boomerang. Easy mode starts with many skills unlocked and lets you revive a few times. On Hard mode, you have one life, enemies are stronger and a mistake can end your run.

Travel and shelter

You can travel in more than 20 vehicles, including cars, vans, boats and special machines. To drive, you need to find keys and learn the driving skill, or buy a vehicle from an auto dealership. Boats can take you to unexplored areas far from land.

Elevators let you reach higher floors in tall buildings, but enemies may follow you inside if they wander in, and they can climb stairs. Hiding is therefore never guaranteed.

Survival and settings

Beyond health, your character must manage hunger, thirst, hygiene, stamina, stress, wounds, infections, cuts and body temperature. Clothing, helmets, masks and armor can provide protection or resistance to weather.

You can choose whether electricity and water run indefinitely or shut off after several days. Fog of War can limit the map to places you have visited, or be turned off to show the whole world. Player Vision can highlight moving enemies in the direction you face, and you can adjust the camera zoom. In co-op, a button press switches between shared-screen and split-screen play.

Missions

The Early Access version currently includes one mission. An expanded version adds more missions, enemies, NPCs, locations and crafting options through downloadable content.