Last Evac

Last Evac is a zombie survival game with two modes: Battle Royale, where 60 players compete to escape the city by helicopter, and Left Behind, an always-on survival world with safe camps and persistent stashes. Your levels and challenges carry across both modes.

Battle Royale

Ride an evacuation helicopter through the clouds, jump when you choose and parachute into the ruins. Scavenge weapons, armor and medicine, craft supplies, and stay ahead of the closing zone. The last player standing is picked up by the helicopter, which returns, drops a rope ladder wherever you are and flies you out. Matches use a new flight path, loot and zone each time, with clear skies, rain or thunderstorms and morning, midday or evening light; street lamps come on at dusk.

Walls block your character’s line of sight, so you cannot see who is inside a building. Doors can open, slam and break, and you can drop a barricade shield to hold a doorway. Footsteps, gunshots, creaking doors and startled crows can reveal positions; noise bottles can mislead other players. Rain muffles footsteps, while thunder can swallow a gunshot.

Roles and equipment

Each role has two abilities: Q has a short cooldown, while E is more powerful.

• Scout: Pet Crow flies over walls, reveals the area around it and marks nearby enemies. Keen Ears turns nearby sounds into ripples showing where they came from.
• Breaker: Scrap Shield blocks bullets from the front, and Molotov sets the ground on fire to drive players out of cover. The Breaker also breaks doors twice as fast.
• Medic: Quick Wrap heals you over three seconds while you keep moving. Gas Mask protects you from the zone for a while.

You can find 15 guns, ranging from a pocket pistol to a .50 sniper rifle that only drops from the sky, as well as an axe for close combat. Guns can take scopes, extended magazines, suppressors and grips; a suppressed shot cannot be heard across the map. Loot chests contain supplies, while explosive barrels can be blown up and trees can be chopped down with an axe. Helmets and vests come in three levels, and backpacks increase your carrying capacity. Bags are limited by weight rather than slots.

Craft bandages, medkits and tactical items from cloth, chemicals, wood and scrap. Tactical items include smoke grenades that nobody can see through, tripwire alarms, one-press barricade shields, noise bottles and painkillers. Twice per match, a supply helicopter drops a crate of rare loot beneath a red smoke flare visible to everyone.

Play in a squad

You can queue alone or with up to three Steam friends. Smaller parties, and solo players who select Squad, are filled to four players with other players and then bots. Squadmates share what they see, ping enemies, loot and places with one click, mark landing spots for each other and revive one another when someone goes down. If a squadmate is eliminated, you can carry their dog tag to a Crow Cargo box, where crows bring them back into the match.

Left Behind

Left Behind is an always-on world for up to 40 players, with no match timer, closing zone or winner. Its 800x800 map is made specifically for this mode. You can log out wherever you are and return to find your bag and stash waiting. The dead include walkers, runners, armoured zombies and screamers that call others. Headshots kill them, but gunfire and sprinting attract them, and you can hear a horde moan before it comes into view.

The further north you travel, the more dangerous the world becomes. The south has quiet villages and forest; towns and a large city centre lie in the middle, while snowy mountains, an airfield and a military base are in the north. Two walled safe camps prevent weapons from being fired and contain your stash, a workbench and a fire with a guitar player.

Your stash starts at 400 capacity and can grow to 600 or 800 with shelves you build. Materials and ammunition weigh half as much in the stash, and the workbench can use materials stored there. You must manage hunger, thirst and infection: cook meat, boil water and use antibiotics to push back an infected bite. A full day passes every hour. At night, twice as many zombies appear and more of them run; loot improves, and your flashlight turns on at nightfall.

Find recipe books, level up to 30 and develop skills across five branches: Survival, Combat, Stealth, Crafting and Physical. You receive two skill points per level, can unlock both paths of a fork, and earn master points after level 30. Groups of up to four can form within the world and use world, nearby and group text and voice chat. If you die, everything you carried stays on your body for you to retrieve. After respawning at a saved spot outside a camp, you take no damage for 10 seconds, unless you move or act.

Career and events

One career spans both modes. Earn XP and levels, master each role, complete daily and weekly challenges, and compare XP with friends on the leaderboards. Your rooftop hideout fills out as your career grows, and the evac helicopter lands there to collect you when a match is found. You can customize your survivor’s body, skin, hair and clothes, and unlock 15 Steam achievements. Left Behind also has leaderboards for the longest run, hunter of the week and rankings in each camp.

Battle Royale’s Peak Hour takes place daily at 21:00, and also at 15:00 on Saturdays and Sundays, Istanbul time. The first Peak Hour match of the day awards double career XP; bronze, silver and gold emblems are awarded at 10, 50 and 100 Peak Hours. Bonus weekends rotate between XP, materials and recipe books.

Online play

Battle Royale matchmaking uses dedicated servers, with bots filling empty seats so matches can start quickly. The Left Behind server is in Germany, so players farther away may have higher ping. Windows and macOS players can play together.