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Steam

2025 · Action · Indie

R.E.P.O.

Nintendo console exclusive

R.E.P.O. (Retrieve, Extract and Profit Operation) is an online cooperative survival horror game for up to six players, developed by Swedish studio Semiwork using the Unity engine. Players are tasked with locating valuable physics-based objects within procedurally generated environments and carefully transporting them to extraction points without damaging them, all while avoiding hostile creatures. Between levels, players spend earned currency on permanent upgrades, weapons, and tools at a service station. The game emphasizes verbal coordination and strategic planning among teammates.

Released: 26 February 2025
Platforms: Nintendo Switch 2 Windows
Genres: Action Indie Strategy
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Co-op Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction Horror Survival Stealth
Country: Sweden
Age ratings: ACB M USK 16 CLASS_IND 14
Languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish and 8 more
Time to beat: 9.5hmain story37hcompletionist

About

R.E.P.O. (an acronym for Retrieve, Extract and Profit Operation) is an online cooperative survival horror video game developed and published by Swedish game studio Semiwork for Windows. It was released in early access on 26 February 2025 on Steam. It is developed in the Unity game engine.

›Story

R.E.P.O. takes place in a quiet, post-apocalyptic world where humanity has seemingly vanished. Skeletons remain frozen in ordinary, everyday positions inside untouched structures, hinting at a sudden and mysterious extinction event. In the vacuum left by mankind, players assume the role of "Semibots"—humanoid, pill-shaped retrieval droids equipped with gravity-manipulation tools. The Semibots operate under the strict servitude of the "Taxman," a mysterious, detached Overseer AI that communicates exclusively through a bizarre distortion of emojis—most notably a crying-laughing icon.

The Taxman deploys the Semibots into abandoned, ghost-town locations—such as subways, stations, and museums—to forcefully reclaim valuable, physics-based items to satisfy astronomical debt quotas. However, these desolate areas are now fiercely guarded by a terrifying assortment of anomalous monsters and hostile, mutated entities. As the droids extract loot, avoid deadly traps, and harvest the glowing pink "souls" of fallen creatures, environmental storytelling reveals a tragic, underlying narrative about the fall of human civilization and the sadistic machine now playing puppet master with what remains.

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Gameplay

The gameplay of R.E.P.O. is similar to that of Lethal Company. The game can host up to six players and tasks them with finding valuable items and funny objects. The players must handle the objects carefully and avoid breaking or damaging them which lowers their value, all while bringing the objects to extraction points to receive in-game money called "SURPLUS". While finding objects, various hostile monsters will try to kill the players.

The game adheres to a roguelike format, employing randomized modular layouts to create unique map configurations for each playthrough. These environments exhibit variations in room arrangement, item placement, and enemy distribution. On each level, players are required to fill each quota at each extraction point before escaping to the truck, and players are incentivized to take more valuables to spend more, but risk transporting and managing their valuables and enemy interaction. Between levels, players visit a "Service Station" which allows them to spend their SURPLUS on permanent upgrades, weapons, explosives, various tools, and resources like health and energy for the aforementioned weapons and tools.

Reception

O. is 6-player chaos in the greatest way possible", and "I can't get enough". O. is a fantastic co-op horror game that can hold its own against big shots like Lethal Company".

O. has received an "overwhelmingly positive" rating on Steam.