Undercrewed

Undercrewed is a co-op game about the last four survivors aboard a spacecraft. You and your crew complete missions across perilous space, making real-time decisions as you steer the ship, activate its rooms, fight enemies and protect the vessel. You can play the campaign with up to four players, online or locally, and combine local and online players in the same crew. Bots can fill empty crew slots, so the game can also be played solo.

Crew and missions

You decide how to divide the work: one player can lead as captain, pilot the ship or operate its weapons. During missions, you encounter events such as poisonous gas leaks, escape pods to collect and intruders aboard. You can customise the ship by choosing its rooms and their positions, balancing weapons, defences and flexibility against its stats, number of module slots and ease of movement between locations. Your choices of layout affect how the crew plays.

Ship systems

The ship can carry systems including laser guns, shields, holographic medics, repair drones and missiles. Shields block incoming attacks but can break under heavy damage; different types withstand more damage, cover larger areas or recover faster. Missiles track enemies and deal area damage, but take a long time to reload. Shell guns come in different styles, some more effective at range and others against groups of enemies. Other available rooms and systems include bridges with different stats, features or functions, space batteries, a cloning room, repair droids, warp speed and an energy room.

Crew progression

Each player earns skill points to buy modules for the ship. A large, circular unlock tree lets crew members specialise while retaining the flexibility to develop other skills. Coordinating how the team progresses through the tree can help cover it efficiently.

Co-op play

The campaign supports up to four players, with online and local play combined in any mix. Local players can use controllers or share a keyboard, and bots can take the place of missing crew members.