A top-down war for Super Earth
HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition is a hardcore twin stick shooter where you play as part of the elite HELLDIVERS unit. The goal is to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war. The camera sits above the action and you move with one stick while aiming and firing with the other, which keeps the fights readable even when the screen fills up. The tone mixes hard survival shooting with comedy, so expect the in-universe talk about managed democracy and liberty to sit alongside genuinely tense firefights. The Dive Harder Edition bundles in the previous expansions: A New Hell, Masters of the Galaxy, Turning Up The Heat and Democracy Strikes Back.
Playing together as a squad
The game supports up to 4 players in local and online co-op on Steam, and Remote Play Together is available if you want to bring a friend in from your list. Everyone works as one squad, calling in Support Stratagems to bring in the full might of the military rather than relying on your rifles alone. Friendly fire is fully on, so a careless shot or a badly placed Stratagem will take down your teammates as readily as the enemy. That makes communication and spacing part of the fun rather than an afterthought. The wider campaign is community-driven, with a universe of worlds to liberate, so the group's choices feed into a shared war effort.
Before you dive in
This is billed as hardcore and difficult, and the difficulty options run well past the standard settings, with three extra difficulties added beyond HELLDIVE. The Dive Harder Edition adds the Proving Grounds mode: repeatable training missions with unique modifiers that test your skills, plus a loadout system with random and favorite options so you can jump back in quickly. Expect to die, regroup and try again, and expect your friends to be part of the problem as often as the solution. The store listing points to 100+ hours of gameplay across the included content.