Red Solstice 2: Survivors is a real-time tactical sci-fi game set on a plague-ravaged Mars in the year 117 After Earth. You control the Executor, a cybernetic soldier leading the elite CELL task force to combat the intelligent biomass STROL infection spreading across colonies.
Players choose from six distinct classes—Assault, Demolition, Heavy Support, Marksman, Medic, Recon—each offering unique abilities, equipment, and strategic roles. The game blends an XCOM-style strategic layer—with a movable Landship headquarters, research, outposts, resources, and infection containment—with intense tactical missions in isometric real-time combat.
Missions include over 15 main campaign missions and more than 20 side missions spanning exploration, stealth, and survival objectives. Objectives range from rescuing survivors and destroying STROL nests to securing territory under dynamic wave-based enemy assaults.
Combat emphasizes teamwork and adaptability, with manual versus overwatch shooting modes, commandable AI squadmates or up to 8-player co-op, powerful weapons, environmental tactics like destructible terrain and turrets, and customizable loadouts and skill trees.
The narrative unfolds through data logs, voiced comms, and mission briefings, delivering a gritty tone where humanity’s survival often clashes with moral compromises. There are no central characters but a strong sense of team effort and sacrifice, with tension ramping sharply as infection spreads.
Updates include new campaigns, classes, maps, vehicles, DLC, skins, and cross-generation console support.
