MISERY

MISERY

Released Oct 2025

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.

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Evaluation

MISERY launched on October 23, 2025 and has been receiving an exceptionally active stream of updates ever since. Before launch, on October 16, 2025, the developer published a detailed roadmap covering a wide range of planned features: mod support, bunker expansion, a pet system, helicopter assembly, character customization, new game modes, new locations, cold weather mechanics, new anomalies and artifacts, new mutants and bosses, and combat overhauls. Since launch, the team has delivered at a rapid pace. Four named major content drops have shipped: a Hardcore mode and controller/Steam Deck support update (March 17, 2026), 10-player server support and 3rd-person view (April 18, 2026), a masks and locks content update (May 20, 2026), and the large Factory biome update (August 13, 2026) — a new industrial biome with 5 new mutants, a new enemy faction, 50+ new items, new crafting stations, and major gameplay additions. These have been complemented by regular feature patches and bug fixes throughout the period. The August 13, 2026 Factory update explicitly states that "we will soon update and refresh all locations to meet this standard and add new locations and POIs across all biomes," and that the team is "working on several more surprises that we will announce later." A hotfix shipped the very next day (August 14, 2026), indicating the developer remains actively engaged. There was a disruption in November 2025 when a DMCA strike temporarily removed the game from Steam, but on November 13, 2025, the developer confirmed the matter was fully resolved and development was continuing. That distress signal has been superseded by months of subsequent active updates. Many roadmap items from October 2025 remain undelivered — including mod support, the pet system, helicopter assembly, and character customization — meaning significant planned content is still ahead. The developer is communicating actively and shipping at a high cadence with no signs of slowing down.
Evidence
Factory biome major update launched with 5 new mutants, a new enemy faction, 50+ new items, new crafting stations, and building improvements. Developer states they will 'soon update and refresh all locations' and are 'working on several more surprises.'
news post · Aug 13, 2026 source content planned
high
Feature update with locks, masks, and new locations. Developer confirms team is still working on the Factory biome and states 'we will release smaller updates that add new content to the game' in the meantime.
news post · May 20, 2026 source content planned
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Publisher
Ytopia
Achievements
38
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op

About this game

MISERY is a co-op rogue-lite survival game.

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!

Last evaluated Aug 14, 2026
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