GRAVHOUNDS Brings 1-4 Player Co-op Base Building and High-Risk Extraction to Early Access
Meet GRAVHOUNDS, a 1-4 player co-op action builder launching into Early Access on November 2, 2026, for PC via Steam and Xbox Series X|S, where it also arrives day one on Xbox Game Pass. Drop into hostile planets as a pack of bio-engineered canine workers, build and defend your base in physics-driven mayhem, and extract with everything you can carry before you become alien chow.
The core loop is a high-stakes bet: the longer you stay and the harder you push, the greater the rewards, but the alien swarm escalates by the second. Your signature tool is the Grav Beam, which lets you fling objects across the battlefield to teammates or send enemies flying, while base building revolves around deploying turrets, generators, and fabricators and extending pipelines across hostile terrain to power your operation and keep your escape route alive. Each Gravhound brings different strengths, and mid-shift upgrades let you stack bonuses and reshape your loadout on the fly.
A free demo is available now on Steam and Xbox, and a September playtest drew more than 20,000 players. Developer Octopus Panic—founded by veterans of 343 Industries and DICE, with Halo 4 creative director Josh Holmes leading development—expects Early Access to last roughly six months, with plans to add more Gravhounds, jobs, worlds, enemies, weapons, and upgrades, and progression is intended to carry over into 1.0.