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As a PMC in a nuclear exclusion zone, scavenge shifting ruins, evade anomalies, and upgrade a bunker before each deadly emission.
Released 23 Oct 2025
Race Home Before Bombing
Scavenge Changing Ruins
Build a Powered Bunker
MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.
Developed by Platypus Entertainment · Published by Ytopia









You play as a PMC guarding a research institute in the Republic of Zaslavie when a nuclear disaster forces you to shelter in a bunker. Survive alone or with others, keeping an eye on basic needs as you prepare to venture back into the Exclusion Zone.
Each expedition takes you through changing, procedurally generated ruins to search for food, equipment, weapons, and materials. Radiation, armed survivors, mutated creatures, and anomalies threaten your trip; some anomalies also conceal artifacts with unusual effects. Return to the bunker before the next emission.
Use what you bring back to expand and furnish the bunker, build generators and crafting stations, grow food, and prepare supplies for future raids. You can also trade loot and artifacts at the institute. As your equipment improves, you can attempt more dangerous areas and pursue rarer finds.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy the bleak, atmospheric setting and the unpredictable expeditions, especially when exploring with friends. The recurring loot-and-return loop gives them a reason to improve and personalize the bunker, while dangerous encounters and improvised group mishaps can make successful returns feel rewarding. Some players also enjoy the game solo.
You play as PMCs guarding a secret research institute in the Republic of Zaslavie.
The Scientific Institute for Research of the Zaslavie Exclusion Zone (SIRZEZ) was built before the war to study anomalies and artifacts. Over time, these artifacts became the cause of conflict between international military blocs. Neither side could allow artifacts to fall into enemy hands, ultimately leading to nuclear war.
A siren sounds — a nuclear bomb is incoming! You have 60 seconds to grab whatever you can and make it to the bunker. Then, the survival begins. Each day, you venture into the Exclusion Zone to scavenge procedurally generated locations: abandoned military bases and research stations, radioactive wastelands, and ruined cities.
The Zone is full of secrets and deadly traps, and radiation is far from the only threat.
You’ll encounter other survivors ready to kill for food and resources, weird mutated creatures with unique behaviors, and various anomalies.

No one knows how exactly anomalies work or their origin. Some phenomena can help you, others will tear you apart. Anomaly areas often hide artifacts — rare, valuable items distorted by anomalies and charged with unique effects.

The bunker is your new home.
Expand it room by room: install generators (gas, solar, or gnome-powered), build crafting stations, grow food, cook meals, and decorate your shelter with whatever you drag back from raids: a table, a dresser, a worn-out sofa, or even a cozy rug. Don’t worry, the previous owners won’t be needing them anymore.
After each raid, you can unwind and chill at the bar in the basement of the institute: have a drink, talk to other survivors, and trade your loot and rare artifacts with the merchant.

Remember, watch your vitals.
In the Zone, people can easily die from hunger, thirst, radiation sickness, or lose their minds and turn on their teammates. Go out looting during the day, and return to bunker before nightfall.
And one last thing: the Zone plays with your mind. Too much stress and you’ll start hearing whispers, seeing things that aren’t there, and feeling someone watching you. Lose your grip, and not even the bunker will save you. Nothing will.
Life in MISERY isn’t easy.
But there’s nothing better than going through it all together.
Exploring bandos with friends, watching each other’s backs, sitting by the fire, drinking whatever’s left, and exhaling smoke into the cold rain — in moments like these, you can feel alive again!

| Platforms | Windows, Linux |
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| Achievements | 38 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1–5 |
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| Multiplayer | MISERY supports solo play and cooperative multiplayer. The store description states 1–5 player co-op, and features list Online Co-op and LAN Co-op. Reviews indicate players can host and join lobbies, play with friends or random players, and use proximity voice chat. PvE is explicitly mentioned in tags and reviews. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Mod support is mentioned in reviews and workshop/modding support is anticipated, but no provided text confirms current multiplayer-specific mod functionality. One review states some mods do not work. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |