Insurgency

Insurgency is a multiplayer and cooperative shooter built around close-quarters combat. You fight to secure strongholds and destroy enemy supplies, balancing one-life encounters with longer battles. Its squad-based matches use role-based classes that differ by team and can be customized.

Weapons and equipment

The game has over 40 weapons with numerous attachments. Weapons have realistic behavior, including a free-aim system, and combat features intense suppression effects. You accumulate supply to customize and upgrade your gear, affecting your weight, stamina and movement speed.

Maps and play

Sixteen maps have day and night versions and span environments in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia. Multiplayer modes support up to 32 players, while cooperative modes let you and your friends complete mission-based objectives together. You can also practice offline with bots in all game modes.

Multiplayer modes

The nine multiplayer modes focus on territorial control, destroying weapon caches, capturing intel and escorting a high-value target. In team-based modes, objectives and reinforcement rules shape how each match unfolds:

• Push: Attackers capture three territorial objectives in sequence, gaining reinforcements and time for each one. After they capture the third, they must destroy a fourth objective, a cache; defenders have a finite number of reinforcements and only one life for the final stand.
• Firefight: Teams contest one neutral objective and one objective for each team. A team respawns only after securing an objective; win by securing all objectives or eliminating the enemy team.
• Skirmish: Teams contest three territorial objectives and protect a supply cache each. They gain extra reinforcement waves until their cache is destroyed. Once both caches and all reinforcement waves are gone, the match becomes Firefight.
• Occupy: Teams contest one central objective. The team that controls it does not use up reinforcement waves.
• Ambush: One team escorts a high-value target to an extraction point while the other tries to stop them. The target carries a silenced pistol and can pick up a weapon from a fallen enemy or teammate.
• Strike: Attackers must destroy three weapon caches, gaining reinforcements and time for each one destroyed. Defenders must keep at least one cache intact and eliminate the attackers after their reinforcements run out.
• Infiltrate: Take the enemy's intel and return it to your base. Your team gains reinforcements when someone takes the enemy intel or when an enemy carrying your team's intel is neutralized.
• Flashpoint: Teams contest one neutral territorial objective and two caches on each side. Secure the entire area by controlling the middle and destroying the enemy caches; your team respawns when it secures the territorial objective or destroys a cache.
• Elimination: In this single-life mode, attackers must destroy one of two weapon caches or eliminate the enemy team before time runs out. Defenders must kill all attackers.

Cooperative modes

In the five cooperative modes, you and your squad take on AI enemies and complete objectives together:

• Checkpoint: Complete mission objectives in sequence. Each successful objective respawns anyone eliminated along the way.
• Hunt: Locate and destroy the weapons cache and eliminate all insurgents dispersed through the environment. Each player has one life.
• Survival: Play as insurgents against endless, progressively harder waves of Security enemies on night-themed maps. Reaching safehouse objectives earns supply for better weapons and brings dead teammates back into play.
• Outpost: Defend your supply cache against endless waves of enemies trying to destroy it. Each successfully defended wave brings in teammate reinforcements.
• Conquer: Capture objectives and defend them from enemies trying to retake them. Destroy enemy weapon caches to reduce their numbers.

Squads and communication

A squad communication system includes 3D VOIP, so friendly and enemy players nearby can hear you. An overhead map shows objective and teammate locations, while a simplified HUD and interface keep the focus on the action and environments. Particle effects and audio contribute to the combat experience.

Custom content

The Insurgency SDK and scripting system let you create custom maps and content and share them on the Steam Workshop. The game also has dedicated server support for PC and Linux.