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Fight mutant waves in England as a soldier, choosing your class, weapons, and holdout tactics alone or with up to five others.
Released 14 May 2009
Weld Doors Shut
Choose Your Holdout
Trigger Slow-Motion Kills
6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!
Developed by Tripwire Interactive · Published by Tripwire Interactive









Set in the aftermath of failed military cloning experiments in England, Killing Floor casts you as a soldier sent to clear areas overrun by mutated specimens. Play alone offline or team up with as many as five other players.
Each match centers on surviving successive enemy waves across open, non-linear locations. Choose where to hold or retreat, coordinate with your team, and weld doors shut to redirect the horde.
Earn money during fights and spend it between waves on weapons, armor, and support equipment. Select a perk to specialize your role, improve its skills through persistent progression, and use ZEDtime slow motion during combat.
In the supplied reviews, players often praise the game’s dark horror atmosphere, weighty-feeling weapons, and tense wave fights, especially when coordinating with friends. Perk-based team roles, music, maps, and community-made content also come up as reasons to return. Some reviewers criticize the dated presentation, repetitive wave structure, slow perk progression, and difficulties finding or joining multiplayer servers.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 285 |
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| Players | 1–6 |
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| Multiplayer | Killing Floor supports solo offline play and online co-op multiplayer. Official store text states cooperative gameplay for up to 6 players against waves of enemies, and Steam lists Cross-Platform Multiplayer and Online Co-Op. Reviews repeatedly describe server-based play, joinable matches, and custom/community servers; standard play is PvE, with no normal PvP mode, though some reviews mention PvP only via mods or PvP servers. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game includes a Windows-only SDK, Steam Workshop support, and a level editor. Reviews mention mods and custom servers adding maps, weapons, zeds, bosses, perks, game types, larger player-count servers, and some PvP variants such as GunGame. Modded servers can change multiplayer rules and scale beyond the standard 6-player format, but the store text only confirms up to 6-player co-op. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 21 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 72/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |