Defiance
Defiance is the first multi-platform massive online shooter video game that is also a ground-breaking entertainment experience, interconnecting with a global television program on Syfy. The game combines the intense action of a third-person shooter, with the persistence and scale of a massive online game, while its TV counterpart exudes the scope, story, and drama of a classic sci-fi epic.
What it's about
A futuristic setting with alien technology and transformed Earth grounded in speculative science fiction worldbuilding. Earth has been transformed and remains in ruins as the post-apocalyptic setting where players compete for resources.
How it plays
Third-person shooter combat with firearms and alien technology is the core moment-to-moment interaction and defines the gameplay loop. Randomized drops of varying rarity alien technology and gear drive the reward loop and progression system central to a looter shooter. The game fuses shooting combat with an endless randomized loot treadmill, the canonical looter-shooter formula.
How it's structured
Thousands of players inhabit a persistent shared online world, the definitive MMO scale and structure. A large transformed Earth open-world is explorable in non-linear fashion with player-chosen routes through content. The open-world environment is traversed without hard boundaries, supporting the seamless MMO experience.
Kindred games
Shares Gunplay, Looter-Shooter, Loot & Drops, Open World.
Both lean into Gunplay, Looter-Shooter, Loot & Drops, Open World.
Shares Gunplay, Loot & Drops, Post-Apocalyptic, Open World.
Both lean into Gunplay, Loot & Drops, Post-Apocalyptic, Open World.
Shares Gunplay, Loot & Drops, Looter-Shooter, Science Fiction.
Both lean into Gunplay, Looter-Shooter, Loot & Drops, Science Fiction.
Closest hidden gems
A lesser-known kindred — Gunplay, Science Fiction, Loot & Drops, Character Builds. 95% positive across 4,694 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Gunplay, Science Fiction, Loot & Drops, Character Builds.
A lesser-known kindred — Gunplay, Loot & Drops, Science Fiction, Gear Upgrades. 91% positive across 4,562 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Gunplay, Loot & Drops, Science Fiction, Gear Upgrades.
A lesser-known kindred — Loot & Drops, Open World, Science Fiction, Party Management. 98% positive across 4,211 Steam reviews.
Both lean into Loot & Drops, Science Fiction, Open World, Party Management.