About the game
CybArena is a top-down cyberpunk wave shooter for 1-4 players. Pick your mercenary, take a gun off the rack, and hold the arena through ninety-second waves of drones, minelayers, kamikaze bombers and worse. Every third wave, a boss kicks the door in.
Every run is a build. Kills shake loose perk tokens, and every token deals you a hand of cards: stack crits, set your rounds on fire, ricochet bullets off the crowd, or chase a legendary that chains each kill into the next. Chain kills into combos, spend the payout at the vending machines, and dash through anything you can't dodge. Between waves you get fifteen seconds to breathe. Spend them well.
Fight solo or bring up to three friends in online co-op. Revive downed teammates, donate a spare life, and stack party passives, because every character makes their signature power-up drop for the whole squad. Survive to wave 36 and the arena sends its guardian. Kill it and the city is yours. Then Endless mode asks how much further you can go.
Assault. Raw weapon damage, and damage power-ups that stick around longer when he's the one grabbing them. His Mortar Shower ultimate rains shells from above, up to six volleys of six, for players who answer crowds with craters.
Skirmisher. The fastest feet in the arena, built for players who never stop moving. Beast Mode is twenty seconds of everything at once: faster fire, faster legs, bigger damage, and a magazine that doesn't run dry.
Control. Fire rate on the trigger and a panic button the whole team learns to trust. Shockwave stuns every enemy in the arena, wipes the bullets around you, and shoves the crowd back.
Support. Deeper magazines out of the box, and ammo drops fall more often for the entire party. Bullet Pulse fires expanding rings of real bullets. They crit, they pierce, they count.
The rack holds ten guns, from the sidearm that never jams to the Minigun's wall of lead, and every unlock is permanent: waves cleared and levels gained earn Weapon Tokens that carry across runs. Each gun has its own exclusive perk cards, from Choke on the shotguns to Spin-Up on the Minigun. Heavier guns hit harder. They also slow you down. Choose.
Grab a perk token and you're dealt three cards from a pool of seventy across four rarities, from a humble +2% to legendaries like Death's Echo, which chains every kill into the next. Enemies also drop six timed power-ups, and five vending machines sell speed, immunity pills, airstrikes and, in extreme measures, a Nuke.
Nine enemy types with nine agendas, any of which can spawn Elite: Armoured, Swift, Volatile or Shielded. Bosses join every third wave, from the Cyber Snake you dismantle segment by segment to the Railway, a moving wall of guns riding the line at the edge of the arena. Survive them all and wave 36 sends the guardian.
Features
- 1-4 player online co-op, or hold the arena solo.
- Four mercenaries, each with an ultimate and a signature power-up that drops for the whole squad: Assault, Skirmisher, Control and Support.
- Ten guns, from the sidearm to the Minigun, each with its own exclusive perk cards. Unlocks are permanent.
- Seventy perk cards across four rarities. Every run is a build.
- Nine enemy types with Elite variants, and twelve bosses, one every third wave.
- Wave 36 guardian, then Endless mode.
- 65 Steam achievements, English and Simplified Chinese.
Trailer
Watch on YouTube · Full-quality MP4 on request: press@cojokerogames.com
Screenshots
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Logos and key art
About Cojokero Games
Cojokero Games is a small indie outfit in Auckland, New Zealand, just trying to create fun experiences. The first game, CybArena, a four-player co-op arena shooter, came out on Steam in December 2024. Minutes to Meltdown is next.
Credits
Design, code, art and sound: Cojokero Games
Music: licensed for commercial use
More from the studio: cojokerogames.com
Streaming and video
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Contact
Press, creators and keys: press@cojokerogames.com