HELLDIVERS™ 2 Chaotic four-player galactic warfare

You land in a squad of up to four with a strategic mission and a planet that wants you dead.

That makes co-op friends essential rather than decorative. You watch each other's backs, split objectives, and drag each other to extraction. Expect to be saved by a friend one minute and flattened by their airstrike the next.

You pick how liberty gets delivered. Rain ordnance from above, sneak through enemy territory, or charge straight into the jaws of combat.

Your main tools are explosive firepower, life-saving armor, and stratagems — turrets, airstrikes, and similar battle-changing calls. You aim down the sights for accurate shots with pistols, machine guns, and flamethrowers, while blood, explosions, and dismemberment keep the battlefield readable in a grim way. Choosing the loadout is half the co-op conversation.

This is a fast, frantic third-person shooter where positioning matters. You drop a turret to hold a ridge, a friend calls an airstrike a little too close, and the squad scatters while alien threats keep pushing without fear or morality.

Each enemy has distinct tactics and behavior, so one fight needs steady machine-gun fire and the next needs running. The comedy comes from physics and poor decisions: environmental explosions, stray grenades, and squad mates caught in your line of fire. Shared blame is part of the fun.

Capturing enemy planets, defending against invasions, and completing missions feeds a shared galactic war. The result depends on everyone involved, which gives your squad's evening of extractions some larger weight.

Super Earth pays out Requisition for hard work, used for rewards that benefit you, your squad, your destroyer ship, and the wider war effort. It is a neat loop for co-op friends: land, survive, extract, and watch those small wins add up to something bigger. You stand together, or you fall apart.