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Survivor Mercs

Survivor Mercs

Purge the billionaires' robot army with your Merc squad! Fast-paced twin-stick action, frantic horde survival, tactical squad-building & tons of loot! Exploit game-breaking synergies to beat the M.E.G.A. Corp. bosses in ever-changing operations. Lock, load, and loot, Commander!

Released Apr 30, 2026 Developer Wolpertinger Games Publisher Wandering Wizard Platforms Windows Bullet HellRogue-liteAction RoguelikeDifficultTop-Down Shooter
View on Steam ↗ $9.99 (US · as of 2026-05-12)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

74.0%positive177 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“It's worth $10 and your time as it's a fun squad-builder roguelike. Just bear in mind one key difference from other survivors-like. It's a survivors-like that focuses on grinding, leveling, equipping, and unlocking mercs in your squad who do all the damage. You provide buffs or…”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Extremely fun game, gets even better when you find out one of the bosses is also the boss of a data center. "The leprechaun tells me to burn things!" -Ralph Wiggum”

— a player, Steam review · 51 hrs played
Not recommended · 3 found this helpful

“This game is just not very good unfortunately. I was interested in the randomized commander genetics element when purchasing the game, but it's very basic percentage point changes and you have no agency over it at the beginning of the game. The world-gen / map design is also…”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2026-05 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

134all-time peak
0 10 20 2024 2025 2026 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 18 avg · Sep 2023

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

138achievements
3.7%median completion
0.3%rarest: Wanted: Dozer
54.9% of players 44.2% of players 35.1% of players 34.3% of players 29.8% of players 28.3% of players 27.9% of players 26.0% of players 24.9% of players 22.0% of players 19.7% of players 18.0% of players 16.6% of players 16.2% of players 16.1% of players 15.2% of players 14.7% of players 14.1% of players 12.1% of players 9.7% of players 9.3% of players 8.9% of players 7.8% of players 7.6% of players 7.5% of players 7.2% of players 6.5% of players 6.1% of players 5.9% of players 5.5% of players 5.4% of players 5.0% of players 4.6% of players 4.0% of players 3.8% of players 3.5% of players 3.4% of players 3.1% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.7% of players 2.4% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.8% of players 54.9% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
54.9%Exterminator: Tier 1 — Eliminate 5,000 enemies!
54.5%Bunker Architect: Tier 1 — Build a room in your Bunker HQ
44.2%Bunker Architect: Tier 2 — Build 3 rooms in your Bunker HQ
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%Wanted: Dozer — Defeat the miniboss Dozer.
0.3%Tame the Krak-N: Elite — Defeat boss Krak-N in an Elite Operation!
0.5%Wanted: AtakAracs — Defeat the miniboss AtakAracs.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jul 20, 2026
Survivor Mercs: Games Composed in Germany

Commanders, its time to recruit! Whether you've been looking for a discount to join the ranks, or another reason to have your friends join our battalion. The time is now! The " Games Composed in Germa

Jul 04, 2026
Happy 4th of July, Commanders!

Happy 4th of July, Commanders! Today’s a good day to bring the fireworks to the battlefield and give those robot hordes a proper red, white, and boom. Whether you’re dropping in for the loot, the chao

Jun 17, 2026
Hotfix 1.2.1

Commanders, please update your game! While running the final tests for the update 1.2 console release, we found an issue where the game could load into a broken Bunker HQ menu after spamming various d

Jun 08, 2026
Update 1.2 - Operation: Big Patch

Commanders, thanks a lot for your detailed reports from the frontlines! We were very excited about the v1.0 launch and tried to release a stable and fun version of Survivor Mercs. Unfortunately, some

Apr 30, 2026
🎖️Survivor Mercs - 1.0 OUT NOW🎖️

Commanders, TODAY IS THE DAY 🪖 After over two and a half years of battle, feedback, patches, and one very fitting “Final Drill” — Survivor Mercs has officially left Early Access. Version 1.0 is OUT NO

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Casual, Indie, RPG
Player tagsBullet Hell · Rogue-lite · Action Roguelike · Difficult · Top-Down Shooter · Military · Pixel Graphics · Singleplayer · Controller · Procedural Generation · Arena Shooter · Action (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards
LanguagesEnglish * , German, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian *
ControllerFull support
Achievements138
Official sitehttps://www.survivormercs.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 2.5 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 Ti or higher, Radeon RX 570 or higher Storage: 2 GB available space