Killsquad
Released Oct 2021
Hack and slash? Check. Twin-stick-shooter? Check. 4 player coop to slay hordes of aliens & bosses with your friends? Check. Skills, upgrades, weapons, gears, talismans and more to make you stronger? Check. Wake up, bounty hunter. We have a mission for you. Time to clean up the scum of the galaxy.
70% positive · 3,492 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
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Steam $29.99
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Evaluation
Killsquad launched out of Early Access on October 21, 2021, after roughly two years of development. At launch, Novarama published a post-release roadmap outlining planned endgame content including new Colosseum modes, legendary equipment, and leaderboards. That content was delivered in the Inferno Mode Update on December 22, 2021, which introduced Elemental Colosseums, Infinite Colosseum, competitive ranking, and legendary equipment tiers — fulfilling the roadmap promises.
Following that, the team shipped a feature update on March 24, 2022 adding new skill upgrades, gear perks, and cosmetics, and a major engine overhaul on November 2, 2022 focused on performance improvements and preparing the game for a PlayStation release. The most recent major update arrived on July 18, 2023, enabling crossplay between PC and PlayStation when the game launched on PS4 and PS5 on July 20, 2023.
There have been no developer communications, updates, or announcements of any kind since July 18, 2023 — nearly three years of silence as of today, June 26, 2026. The update cadence from October 2021 through July 2023 showed major content drops roughly every 6–9 months, meaning the current silence — approaching 36 months — far exceeds any pattern established during active development. No future content, new characters, expansions, or updates have been announced. The only DLC on the store (a SteelSeries cosmetic bundle) was released in March 2022 and there are no unreleased DLC entries. The developer's own communications noted in November 2022 that part of the studio had moved on to a new, unannounced project, suggesting development attention had begun to shift away from Killsquad well before the final update. All evidence points to the PlayStation crossplay patch in July 2023 as the game's final update, marking the conclusion of post-launch content development.
Evidence
Most recent developer communication: a patch enabling PC–PlayStation crossplay in preparation for the game's PS4/PS5 launch on July 20, 2023. No further updates or announcements have followed.
Inferno Mode Update delivered the endgame content promised in the post-release roadmap: three Elemental Colosseums, Infinite Colosseum, competitive leaderboards, legendary equipment tier, and a Christmas event.
Content
1 of 1 released · no outstanding content
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Novarama
Achievements
156
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op
About this game
Welcome to Killsquad: a co-op action game that blends twin-stick shooter, hack and slash and drops in a dash of character customization & progression. Join us on a journey to five planets full to the brim with enemies for you to annihilate. Choose your hero, select your skills, weapons, gears and talismans, and unleash hell through waves of relentless enemies and fearsome bosses.
Killsquad deliveres frantic, direct, skill-oriented control on keyboard or gamepad. Shoot fast, dodge fast, or die even faster. Our core are short, 10-20 minute adrenaline pumping contracts you can enjoy solo or with up to 4 friends in co-op. So it feels a bit like a twin stick shooter. Or a hack and slash. Or a top-down dungeon crawler. Or a sci-fi bullet hell. Well, it feels like Killsquad. And it's a lot of fun to play, solo or with others.
Killsquad features five hero classes for you to choose from, each with their own weapons and skills. These combine melee and ranged characters to fit different playstyles. Along your adventures, you'll be able to acquire and equip powerful upgrades for each of your skills, which activate during your contracts. And, if you survive, claim your bounty to spend it on tons of new equipment, such as weapons, power-ups and gear, or cosmetics to show off.
Fight your way through +30 contracts in the Campaign Map, visiting five planets along the way. Jump in with your friends or with any other bounty hunter. You can come to the aid of another squad by joining them mid-mission in real time. Cooperate to complete each contract or compete between each other to earn the highest scores.
Obtain weapons and gears with unique characteristics that affect the skills of your hero. Earn the trust of the Unseen by finding their Talismans: strong and complex artifacts with exciting passive effects. But be wary, these abilities at first will be detrimental, but through effort and killing lots of monsters can level up to turn into powerful items. Use everything in combination with your skills and upgrades to create game-breaking builds, and make the heroes your own.
But this party would not be complete without the main course: the enemies. Hordes and waves of disturbing enemies will make their way to you, clawing and bitting till there's nothing left. But do not worry, you will be fine. It is the bosses which will make you tremble. More than 15 bosses will put you to the test, each with different sets of mechanics and unique ways to be beaten.
Killsquad deliveres frantic, direct, skill-oriented control on keyboard or gamepad. Shoot fast, dodge fast, or die even faster. Our core are short, 10-20 minute adrenaline pumping contracts you can enjoy solo or with up to 4 friends in co-op. So it feels a bit like a twin stick shooter. Or a hack and slash. Or a top-down dungeon crawler. Or a sci-fi bullet hell. Well, it feels like Killsquad. And it's a lot of fun to play, solo or with others.
Killsquad features five hero classes for you to choose from, each with their own weapons and skills. These combine melee and ranged characters to fit different playstyles. Along your adventures, you'll be able to acquire and equip powerful upgrades for each of your skills, which activate during your contracts. And, if you survive, claim your bounty to spend it on tons of new equipment, such as weapons, power-ups and gear, or cosmetics to show off.
Fight your way through +30 contracts in the Campaign Map, visiting five planets along the way. Jump in with your friends or with any other bounty hunter. You can come to the aid of another squad by joining them mid-mission in real time. Cooperate to complete each contract or compete between each other to earn the highest scores.
Obtain weapons and gears with unique characteristics that affect the skills of your hero. Earn the trust of the Unseen by finding their Talismans: strong and complex artifacts with exciting passive effects. But be wary, these abilities at first will be detrimental, but through effort and killing lots of monsters can level up to turn into powerful items. Use everything in combination with your skills and upgrades to create game-breaking builds, and make the heroes your own.
But this party would not be complete without the main course: the enemies. Hordes and waves of disturbing enemies will make their way to you, clawing and bitting till there's nothing left. But do not worry, you will be fine. It is the bosses which will make you tremble. More than 15 bosses will put you to the test, each with different sets of mechanics and unique ways to be beaten.
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Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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