Fit check
Is Survivor Squad: Gauntlets worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who prefer coordinating squad movement and visibility over controlling a lone fighter
- Players who enjoy planning formations and managing squad equipment across infected-filled levels
- Scenario creators interested in building and sharing custom challenges with a visual editor
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a fast, individual-action format rather than squad positioning and coordinated movement
- Players who prefer a fixed campaign structure without editor challenges or user-created scenarios
- Players looking for a role-playing game centered on character customization, pets, and loot
Our take on Survivor Squad: Gauntlets
Rather than treating combat as a matter of aiming at visible targets, the game makes sightlines and squad formations central to each encounter. Its editor challenges and visual scenario-building tools also extend the structure beyond a sequence of developer-authored levels.
What is Survivor Squad: Gauntlets?
Command a squad of survivors through levels filled with infected, where line of sight determines what the squad can shoot.
Move as a unit, arrange formations, and use weapons and gadgets while managing the squad’s progress. The campaign includes levels with distinct events, base building, gear crafting, squad leveling, and extraction objectives. Alongside the main levels are 20 editor challenges built around puzzles and problem solving. A visual editor provides objects, event actions, variables, and triggers for creating custom scenarios, including setups with lasers, sentry guns, buttons, and custom interfaces. Tools for sharing and playing community-made gauntlets let players create challenges and compare scores with friends.
How Survivor Squad: Gauntlets plays
- 01Line-of-sight combat
- Squad members cannot fire at infected they cannot see, making positioning and formations central to combat.
- 02Squad progression
- The levels combine building a base and crafting equipment with leveling the squad before extraction.
- 03Visual scenario editor
- Objects can be linked through event actions, variables, and triggers to create custom interactions.
- 04Community gauntlets
- Players can share custom challenges and play creations made by other community members.
Survivor Squad: Gauntlets compared to similar games
Anomaly: Warzone Earth also combines action and strategy, but its description centers on a reversed tower-defense structure against alien forces; Survivor Squad: Gauntlets instead focuses on squad formations, line of sight, and extraction. Dungeon Defenders: Awakened pairs cooperative action with tower defense and character progression, while Survivor Squad: Gauntlets adds editor challenges and tools for creating community gauntlets.
Survivor Squad: Gauntlets: platforms & release
Is Survivor Squad: Gauntlets worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who prefer coordinating squad movement and visibility over controlling a lone fighter. Skip it if: players seeking a fast, individual-action format rather than squad positioning and coordinated movement.
Where can I download Survivor Squad: Gauntlets?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Survivor Squad: Gauntlets's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Survivor Squad: Gauntlets on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
