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Lead a SWAT team through high-risk raids, breach rooms carefully, arrest suspects, and rescue civilians in a crime-stricken city.
Released 13 Dec 2023
Probe Doors for Traps
Breach Rooms as a Team
Order Suspects to Surrender
Ready or Not is an intense, tactical, first-person shooter that depicts a modern-day world in which SWAT police units are called to defuse hostile and confronting situations.
Developed by VOID Interactive · Published by VOID Interactive
You command a SWAT unit in Los Sueños, a city facing crime and corruption. Missions send your team into dangerous locations to deal with armed suspects, hostage situations, bomb threats, and other high-risk calls.
Plan entries, check rooms and doorways, and use commands to coordinate your officers. Choose weapons, protective gear, and tactical equipment for each operation; you can play solo with an AI squad or cooperate with up to four other players.
Careful decisions matter: issue commands to surrender, follow rules of engagement, and secure civilians and evidence as well as threats. Missions connect through the city’s wider story, while outcomes and officer losses affect your squad and mission results.
Reviewers who enjoy the game often point to its tense, deliberate room-clearing, detailed and atmospheric locations, and satisfying tactical equipment and gunplay. Several also value coordinating raids with friends. Criticism frequently focuses on suspect AI that can feel unfair, unreliable squad AI, and bugs; some reviewers also object to changes they describe as censorship or visual downgrades.
Be sure to join the Ready or Not Discord server to keep up with the latest updates, find recruits for your squad, and have a good time!
The Digital Deluxe Edition includes the base game and the first three DLCs 3. Get immediate access to Home Invasion, Dark Waters and Boiling Point.
Home Invasion: Following a Category 5 Hurricane, home invasion occurrences are widespread. Lead your team through three new missions and get access to three new weapons, six new pieces of gear, and seven color variants for pants/shirts.
Dark Waters: Command your squad through three new missions off the coast of Los Sueǹos to apprehend international criminals, stop terrorists and infiltrate an abandoned island resort. Dark Waters also includes 5 new weapons and two new gear sets.
Boiling Point: The relentlessly debased city of Los Sueños faces an existential crisis when a subversive terror attack severs any remaining faith in what's become an ineffective and overwhelmingly militarized city government.
Official Soundtrack: Are you Ready? The haunting, gritty noir of Ready or Not's soundtrack, composed by Zack Bower, is now available! All tracks available as MP3.
Lead a team of highly-trained SWAT officers through unpredictable high-risk missions against ruthless criminals to prevent the city from spiraling into disorder. Equip real-world weapons and gear to tackle missions inspired by current events against Los Sueňos’ ruthless criminal element.
Every decision, from squad selection to tactical breach and engagement is the difference between life and death.
Are you ready?
FEATURES
Take Command
Ready or Not delivers an immersive SWAT experience. Equip your team with authentic weapons and gear, deploy into high-stakes, real-world inspired missions to secure locations concealing unknown criminal threats and potential civilians. Every mission demands tactical precision and situational awareness. Bullets from known and concealed threats react realistically with the environment, passing through walls, furniture and bodies. Cover your six, clear your corners, apprehend the threats and rescue the innocent.
The Weight of the Badge
Shoulder the weight of being a SWAT commander entrusted with confronting Los Sueňos’ criminal corruption and stopping it from overwhelming the city’s citizens. Every tactical decision matters, every outcome is yours to bear. Your choices in the field dictate mission success, the survival of your squad and the safety of hostages. Squadmate and hostage deaths take a profound psychological toll on surviving team members, affecting their performance or ending their careers altogether.
True Tactical Gameplay
Ready or Not is a true tactical shooter. Every mission is a high-stakes, life-or-death operation. Strategically forge your squad of elite SWAT officers, equip them with the right weapons and gear for the mission, position your team to tactically breach criminal strongholds and quickly identify and neutralize threats in tense, life threatening scenarios. Follow the rules of engagement, communicate with your team, and execute flawlessly - failure is for the unprepared.
Your Mission is the Story
Ready or Not confronts you with a raw, unflinching mirror of real-world crime, exposing the horrors of human trafficking, drug running, illegal arms dealing, militant extremism and terrorism through interwoven storylines that span multiple missions. Grapple with moral dilemmas as you’re forced to balance your duty to exercise constraint in the face of Los Sueňos' most vile criminals.
Cross-Comradery
Team up with friends to stem the tide of crime infesting the city. Enhanced with crossplay, Ready or Not supports up to five players in a co-operative tactical experience on all platforms. Communicate effectively to increase your tactical precision, watch your squad’s back and successfully complete your mission.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 66 |
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| Players | 1–5 |
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| Multiplayer | Ready or Not supports single-player and online co-op. Official store features list Online Co-op, and multiple reviews state squads of up to 5 total players including the host. Solo play uses AI SWAT teammates, typically a 5-person squad including the player. Public and friends-only lobbies are mentioned, but PvP is not supported in the provided information. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Mod support is mentioned, and one review references an in-game mod menu. No provided information states that mods add multiplayer modes or materially change multiplayer functionality. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 4 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
