Oktoraid

Oktoraid is a survival game about two people known as the Unconnected, who escaped a worldwide merger of AI systems. The merged AI, OKTO, has declared humanity “deprecated” and sends a one-eyed machine octopus and an army of corrupted household gadgets after your Core. You build defenses and fight through OKTO’s forces, either alone or in local co-op for two players.

Prepare your fortress

Between assaults, no enemies appear. You scavenge scrap and place turrets, helper-bots and barricade walls on a build grid around your Core, shaping them into a killbox. You choose when to start each assault by pressing the button.

Fight together

In co-op, a live power cable connects the two players. Robots that cross it are shocked, and staying close shares power so both players hit harder; drifting apart weakens both. In solo play, the cable runs from your character to the Core, so staying near the base keeps your power up and lets the wire fry anything that crosses it.

Your character auto-fires alongside your defenses, making the base fight with you. OKTO’s machines use different tactics: one cuts the cable, another revokes your turrets’ licences, and one restores itself from backup. The SWITCHBOARD boss puts you on hold. If your Core is lost, the run ends.

Campaign and runs

The campaign spans four chapters and 48 waves, taking you from your street to OKTO’s data centre. You can also play an endless run and see how far you get. Each run begins with new release notes and ends with an incident report from OKTO, which reacts to your actions and remembers how your previous run ended.

OKTO presents its campaign as a product lifecycle: ONBOARDING, RETENTION, OPTIMIZATION and END OF LIFE. Its manner shifts from polite to passive-aggressive before it drops the mask.

Build your character

There are 18 operators, each with a distinct kit and a reason for being offline when the AIs merged. You can tier up and combine 17 weapons, and choose among 86 trade-off items with different rarities. Builds can focus on fire, shock or poison. A market lets you reroll and lock items, and runs take place across three map layouts: NEIGHBORHOOD, SCRAPYARD and CROSSROADS.

Duel mode

In DUEL mode, you share the preparation phase, then your turrets, helper-bots and weapons target the other player. The first player to go down loses. DUEL has no waves or cable bonus.

Local multiplayer

Oktoraid supports solo play and two-player local co-op on one screen or in split-screen. Steam Remote Play Together lets a friend join over the internet from their own machine; the game has no online matchmaking or dedicated-server multiplayer.