ORION: Prelude Jetpacks, Mechs, Dinosaurs

The core is simple: waves of dinosaurs, big sci-fi guns, and objectives to clear between rounds. Back at base you buy gear, then head out again, sometimes clearing an area so a mech or vehicle can come into play. The mode list does the heavy lifting: Survival for objective defense, Slaughter for pure duration, Rampage where you play as the dinosaurs, and Prehistoric for custom variables. There is Gun Game, Instagib for twitch reflexes, Elimination with stealth, King of the Hill, duels and more. One moment and you are mowing down raptors, the next you are climbing a weapon ladder against friends.

There are more than fifty weapons and pieces of gear, thirty augmentations that work as mutators, and class-based loadouts: a medic, a sniper, an engineer and a soldier, each with their own perks. Some weapons are serious, some are not, and the laser sword sits firmly in the second camp. You level up to 150, unlock cosmetics in the player store, and chase a leaderboard if that is your thing. The arsenal is part of the fun: figuring out which loadout survives the horde, and which one just makes your friends laugh.

This is a game built around joining a lobby with friends and jumping straight into a round. Co-op runs up to five players in Conquest, while Vital mixes ten players into a PvPvE open world where dinosaurs are everyone's problem. The chaos is the point: plans fall apart, someone gets eaten mid-sentence, and a six-hour session in the snow region can vanish without anyone noticing. Solo it works for wave survival, but it shines with a group, and the PvP modes need people on both sides. Bring friends, or at least a server browser and optimism.