Fit check
Is Hive Jump worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Co-op groups who want local or online run-and-gun platforming
- Action players who enjoy procedurally generated levels and shared failure conditions
- Science-fiction fans who want combat missions connected by a strategic campaign
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a calm or low-pressure experience may find the constant combat, traps, ambushes, and enemy pursuit too intense.
- Players wanting fixed, story-led levels may find procedural generation and mission-based progression repetitive.
- Solo players looking for a mainly single-player campaign may not get the intended group-focused experience.
- Players who prefer climbing, exploration, or puzzle-solving over shooting may find the combat emphasis limiting.
Our take on Hive Jump
The game prioritizes frantic cooperative combat and replayable generated hives, giving up the predictability of hand-crafted level progression. Shared lives also make a failed backpack defense affect the whole team rather than only the player who made the mistake.
What is Hive Jump?
Hive Jump is a science-fiction action platformer for 1–4 players that combines run-and-gun combat with roguelike elements.
Players fight through procedurally generated alien hives, avoid traps, rescue survivors, collect treasures, and face alien bosses. Local and online co-op lets groups tackle missions together. If the transponder backpack is destroyed, the team loses its remaining lives. Pulse rifles, flamethrowers, and other weapons can be unlocked and upgraded between missions. Challenge rooms and relics provide temporary mission benefits, while a turn-based campaign tracks the wider galactic war between jumps. Daily and weekly missions include leaderboards identified as coming soon. The game also supports console controllers.
How Hive Jump plays
- 01Four-Player Co-op
- Local or online groups can join missions with up to four players.
- 02Generated Alien Hives
- Procedural generation creates the hives, with modifiers such as dark levels adding variation.
- 03Shared Permadeath
- The team loses its remaining lives when the transponder backpack is destroyed.
- 04Persistent Weapon Upgrades
- Unlockable weapons, including pulse rifles and flamethrowers, retain upgrades between missions.
- 05Turn-Based Campaign
- Results from individual jumps affect a planetary war managed between missions.
Hive Jump compared to similar games
Abyssus also combines multiplayer shooting with roguelite progression, but its description focuses on hand-crafted levels and weapons modified with ancient technologies. Hive Jump instead combines generated alien hives, platforming, and a turn-based campaign.
Hive Jump: platforms & release
Is Hive Jump worth it?
It is worth it if: co-op groups who want local or online run-and-gun platforming. Skip it if: players seeking a calm or low-pressure experience may find the constant combat, traps, ambushes, and enemy pursuit too intense.
Where can I download Hive Jump?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Hive Jump's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Hive Jump on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
