R.E.P.O. — Complete Deep Strategy Guide

Overview

R.E.P.O. (Retrieve, Extract and Profit Operation) is a co-op physics horror game by Swedish studio Semiwork, launched February 26, 2025 on Steam Early Access. Up to six players control Semibots, expressive little robots dropped into procedurally generated facilities to retrieve physics-based valuables. Every object has real weight, balance, and fragility. Drop a vase and it shatters. Crash a cart into a doorframe and its contents scatter. The tension between careful handling and roaming monsters makes every run uniquely chaotic.

The game blends slapstick physics comedy with genuine horror. Most failures come not from monsters directly, but from haste, greed, and poor coordination. R.E.P.O. is fundamentally a game about discipline. Control your movement, manage your team's attention, and make smart decisions under pressure. It passed 338,000 Steam reviews with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating, peaked at 230K concurrent players in its first weekend, and took the Golden Joystick for Best Early Access Game in November 2025.

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Getting Started

First Run Checklist

1. Play the tutorial. The tutorial button glows on first boot. It walks you through grab mechanics, the cart, extraction types, tumbling, and shop use. The room respawns you if you die, so experiment freely.
2. Pick your team size. Solo is viable but much harder. The sweet spot is 3–4 players. Difficulty and cash quotas scale with team size.
3. Choose a contract at the van terminal. Each mission has a cash quota. Fail to meet it and you lose the upgrades you bought that run.
4. Learn the cart. A C.A.R.T. spawns near the van entrance. It's your lifeline for moving loot. Push it carefully. Rough handling damages items.

The Core Loop

Beginner Mistakes to Avoid

• Sprinting everywhere. Noise is the #1 killer. Sprinting throws a sound bubble roughly the width of a hallway. Walk inside, crouch in unfamiliar rooms.
• Talking near a Huntsman. Voice chat is audible noise. He hears at 5x the range of other monsters.
• Ignoring your watch. The departure timer is on your watch face. Check it every 60 seconds. Getting stranded loses everything.
• Carrying fragile items while running. One stumble and that priceless vase is confetti.
• Blocking corridors with the cart. You will trap yourself or your teammates. Monsters also attack objects they get stuck on.
• Overstaying for "one more item." The most common wipe cause. Extract when you hit quota.

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Complete Controls Reference

Recommended Settings

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Core Mechanics — Deep Dive

How Monster Detection Works: Sight, Sound, and Proximity

Every monster uses one of three detection systems, and the system decides which survival rule applies. This is the single most important framework in the game.

Detection timings by stance (these numbers matter):

Vision exceptions: The Oogly's cone is a green spotlight that always points down. The Cleanup Crew has a full 360-degree dome of vision. The Huntsman is blind. The Loom always knows exactly where its target is.

Ignored until provoked: The Birthday Boy ignores you until a balloon pops. Bella ignores you unless you block her path or grab her. The Shadow Child ignores you unless stared at. The Tick ignores you unless it sees your tractor beam holding something.

The Action Timer and the Monster "Leave" State

This mechanic is barely explained in-game and controls the rhythm of every level. When at least one monster shares a room with a Semibot, an action timer starts climbing at a rate equal to the danger level of each monster present (DL1 = 1/sec, DL2 = 2/sec, DL3 = 3/sec). Multiple monsters stack, so one of each level in your room ticks at 6/sec.

When the timer fills, it resets and every active monster on the level is forced into its Leave state. They vacate rooms containing Semibots and move several rooms away before returning to roam. You can see it happen: the Loom, Gambit, Bowtie, Reaper, and Elsa run off at an accelerated pace; the Huntsman grumbles and shrugs before walking away. This is why a monster never camps a room forever. If you can survive the burst of activity, the map goes quiet again.

Practical use: When the heat is on, split up briefly. Each isolated player speeds up their own room's timer, and the whole map clears sooner. But be careful, a leaving monster can still attack if it spots you on the way out.

The Danger Level System and Spawn Scaling

Every monster carries an official Danger Level from 1 to 3. It controls the threat ceiling and how many of each tier spawn per location.

About 2.1% of the time on levels 1–2 (1.2% on level 3), a DL3 spawn is replaced by a pack of low-tier monsters: 6 Bangers, 4 Apex Predators, 10 Gnomes, 3 Elsa, 3 Bowties, and so on. A Huntsman slot converting to a pack of Bangers is a different problem and needs a different response.

Idle time at the start of a level tells you how long you have to loot before the map wakes up: level 1 gives 240–360 seconds, level 5 drops to 54–81 seconds, level 10 gives 22–33 seconds, and level 11+ starts at zero. There is a 20% chance any given level shortens idle time to a quarter of normal, so a quiet first minute is never guaranteed.

Monster despawn rules: a spawned monster has a fixed 3–4 minute survival timer that cannot be paused, then a 20–40 second despawn window that freezes whenever a Semibot is within 20 units. If it despawns, it respawns elsewhere. This is the basis of the "run two rooms away and wait" strategy.

Health, Energy, and Death

• Base HP: 100. Base energy (stamina): 40.
• Health sharing: stand behind a teammate and left-click the green bar behind their head to transfer 10 HP. You cannot give away your last hitpoint.
• When you die: your body explodes and drops a head. Teammates carry it to the extraction zone to revive you with 1 HP, plus 1 second of invincibility after revive (v0.4.4).
• Bonus revive: if your head is in the extraction zone when the level ends, you revive with +25 HP.
• End-of-level heal: all surviving players heal 25 HP at level completion.
• Instant-death scenarios: Trudge's hammer slam, the Clown's laser into a wall, Cleanup Crew's head explosion at close range, the Huntsman's exact-position shot.

The Energy (Stamina) System

Stamina is your most limited resource. Walking costs nothing. Sprinting drains it. At zero, you cannot sprint until it regenerates.

• Crouch-walking is silent and costs no stamina. Make it your default in unexplored areas.
• Sprinting while carrying a heavy item drains stamina roughly twice as fast. Drop the item before sprinting from a threat.
• Stamina regenerates faster when standing still and unencumbered. After a sprint burst, stop behind cover for 3–4 seconds and you recover about half the bar. Burst and recover; do not spam sprint.
• Grabbing a monster to stun it costs stamina based on its mass. Heavier monsters drain more while held.

Loot Management: Values and Sizes

Every valuable belongs to a value type and a size type. Value types set the price range; size types decide where it spawns and how hard it is to move.

Size types: Tiny and Small are easy one-hand carries. Medium items are manageable. Big items may not fit the cart. Wide items fill an extraction point alone and usually need two players. Tall and Very Tall items need care; Very Tall objects cannot fit through most doorways upright and must be stood upright or placed diagonally in the extraction zone.

Generation rules: the total number of valuables a level can hold is capped at 50, and the maximum total value scales with level until it caps at level 20+. Items near the entrance are intentionally low value. The game rewards pushing deeper.

Loot discipline rules:

• Carry one item at a time in dangerous areas. Two items means you cannot react.
• Create drop zones near the exit. Mark them with glowsticks.
• Stack small items on the cart before moving it.
• Broken items lose 50–80% of their value. A cracked vase beats a shattered one but loses to an intact one.
• Priorities: gems, jewelry, and gold bars first. Medium electronics next. Furniture and giant objects last, unless the quota demands them.

Extraction zone rules:

• Items must be fully inside the zone. Anything on the dashed red perimeter line is destroyed when the piston drops.
• A living player inside the zone during extraction is killed, then revived at 1 HP. Stay out of the way.
• Each extraction point can be used once per level, and only one is active at a time.
• Meeting the quota exactly gives a green checkmark. Going over grants a tax break worth bonus cash.
• Heads placed in the zone during extraction revive with 1 HP.

Sound and Stealth

Stealth checklist:

1. Crouch when entering unfamiliar rooms. Make it a habit.
2. Flick the flashlight on and off. A constant beam is visible.
3. Use glowsticks to mark paths. Cheap and silent.
4. Listen for cues: footsteps, breathing, humming, screaming, clacking teeth, giggles.
5. Hear something odd? Stop and identify the monster before acting.
6. Break line of sight and wait. Monsters despawn or enter Leave state within 20–30 seconds of losing you.
7. Throw bottles or cans to misdirect. Impact noise draws monsters to the point of impact.

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The Service Station — Economy, Upgrades, and Loadouts

Between levels you stop at the Service Station. Cash earned is rounded down (9.6K becomes 9K). You can test any item for free with infinite ammo, and any damage taken is healed when you leave. Dead players are revived by the shop's extraction point.

Upgrade Categories

Max purchasable upgrades: 21. Upgrade prices rise every time you buy more of the same one. The formula roughly doubles the price per purchase, with a small discount per extra player.

Every Upgrade, Exactly

Strength Breakpoints (the most important table in the game)

Strength upgrades determine which monsters you can grab with the tractor beam. The listed breakpoint is the number of upgrades needed for one player to grab the monster while it is awake (not stunned).

Multi-player grabbing: internally every player starts with 5 strength points and gains 1 per upgrade, so a monster's effective grab threshold is 5 higher than listed, and every additional player contributes 5 more. Think of it as subtracting 5 from the listed breakpoint for each grabbing player beyond the first. Two players with zero upgrades can grab anything with a breakpoint of 4. That is how a fresh team lifts a Rugrat or an Upscream.

Why four is the magic number: at four Strength upgrades you can solo-grab and slam Rugrats, Birthday Boys, and Upscreams, throw them into pits, or use them as improvised weapons.

Upgrade Manipulation

Upgrades exist in exactly one place at a time: the shared pool, the truck (up to 16, excess goes to a void), or the shop (10 slots). The same upgrade cannot be in two places.

The trick: the shop always displays 10 upgrades. If you buy all 10 and do not consume them, they sit in the truck and the same 10 respawn in the shop next time. If you consume an unwanted upgrade (use it), that slot frees up and something else can roll in. So to chase a specific upgrade, buy the shop out, consume what you do not want, and keep what you do. Since the Museum update, Strength is the most valuable roll in the game, so this is how you guarantee it shows up.

Rerolling: hold the button in front of the upgrade machine. The first reroll costs $5K and each subsequent one adds another $5K. The button can randomly break after 1–3 rerolls and is fixed at the next station.

Recommended Purchase Order

1. Strength 4 (priority one). Unlocks solo grabs on the whole DL2 light tier.
2. Health 1. Survives one DL3 attack.
3. Stamina 2. More sprint, more survival.
4. One melee weapon. Wrench or Crowbar. Quiet defense.
5. A second C.A.R.T. Hauling efficiency pays for itself in one run.
6. Range 1–2. Grab loot from safer positions.
7. Energy crystals early. They cost $5K–7K on early levels and balloon to $11K–18K later. Buy a stack at levels 3–5.
8. Tumble Climb or Tumble Wings once you are comfortable with tumbling.

Weapon Tier List

Melee note (v0.4.4): weapon handling now scales properly with Strength. High-strength builds make melee dramatically better, and Tumble Launch without Tumble Launch upgrades stays cheap, so hybrid builds are stronger than ever.

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Build Roles & Team Composition

R.E.P.O. has no formal classes, but the best teams assign roles. Aim for 3–4 players: one Scanner, one Grabber, one Driver, and either a Runner or a Fighter.

Role snapshots:

• Scanner: sweep each room from the doorway before entering. Call out values and monster positions. Your awareness prevents ambushes.
• Grabber: follow the Scanner's callouts. Carry one item at a time in danger zones. When two players carry a heavy object, both must aim the same direction; pulling opposite ways drops it.
• Driver: never let the cart sit in a hallway. Keep it tucked in a cleared room. When the cart is full, push it to extraction while the team keeps looting.
• Fighter: between the monster and the team. Tranq problem monsters, kite the Reaper, and designate yourself as the sacrifice when the team must escape.
• Runner: small high-value items only. You also carry dead teammates' heads; heads ride on the cart just fine.

Communication callouts:

• "Ping [item] [room]" for valuables.
• "Monster [type] [location]" the moment you see one.
• "Quiet, Huntsman" is the most important callout in the game.
• "Timer X minutes" at 2, 1, and 0.5.
• "Extraction ready" before pulling the piston.

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Monster Encyclopedia — Complete Threat Assessment

All 29 monsters, grouped by Danger Level, with exact HP, damage, and the counter that actually works.

Danger Level 1 — Low Threat (Avoidable)

Key DL1 tactics:

• Apex Predator: the duck actively baits you into grabbing it by jumping onto your crosshair. One rule: do not click it. If enraged, outrun it for 10 seconds; it cannot be hidden from, but it exhausts after 30 seconds of flying and falls to its death if it went airborne. The cleanest kill is luring it under the extraction piston, which also pays you its $2,000–3,000 orb.
• Elsa: pet by grabbing, five times. Heart particles confirm. If she starts barking faster with reddening eyes, you have about 15 seconds to break line of sight before the enrage.
• Peeper: after about 3 seconds of staring it drains 2 HP/sec. Break LOS with a door, wall, or item. Open the map to navigate while affected. Jump-swing with a melee weapon, or one bullet from the Gun, kills it.
• Spewer: if it latches onto your face, crouch; it eventually leaves. Point the vomit away from valuables.

Danger Level 2 — Medium Threat (Requires Tactics)

Key DL2 tactics:

• Animal: it charges the exact spot where you stood when it detected you, then moves randomly. Sidestep after it locks on and it misses. Two players grabbing it at once freezes it in place for several seconds.
• Hidden: completely invisible. Listen for loud footsteps and breathing. It grabs you and runs off, often straight toward a Huntsman or Headman. The counter is teamwork: a friend grabs you mid-carry and holds you in place. The Tranq Gun reveals and stuns it.
• Mentalist: silent movement. If it catches a teammate in its purple bubble, grab and pull them out before the bubble turns red. If you are slammed, land on a cart or extraction point to take zero fall damage.
• Upscream: it screams and flings you backward for 10 damage. Three of them near a clustered team chain-stun people to death. Sedate with the Tranq or hide under furniture.
• Bangers: each is a walking bomb. Throw them at stronger monsters. Like Gnomes, do not kill them once all extraction points are done; they respawn instantly in packs.

Danger Level 3 — High Threat (Run or Hide)

Key DL3 tactics:

• Huntsman (the run-ender): completely blind with 5x hearing. Every sound in a 25-tile radius is a potential target, and a single shot does 100 damage. Voice chat counts as noise. Crouch-walk everywhere, stay silent, and if you must communicate, type instead (chat is quieter than voice, though still audible). Lure it down stairs: it falls, takes physics damage, and stuns briefly, opening a kill window.
• Loom: cannot be escaped by hiding; it always knows where you are. The only win condition is survival. After about 30 seconds the screen flashes orange and it hunches over and sprints away. If you get clapped, the shockwave launch plus surface impact is usually lethal. Keep walls between you and it.
• Trudge: the slowest monster in the game, but its mace slam is an instant kill and creates a vacuum that sucks in valuables and carts. Never hide near it, it will stare you down for 5 seconds then bite you to death at 35 per hit. Designate one player to lure it away from the loot path.
• Cleanup Crew: 360-degree vision makes it nearly impossible to flank. When it throws its head, do not run in a straight line; the head builds momentum. Turn a corner or dodge sideways. After the explosion, the radiation zone ticks 15 damage per half second, so mark it and give it 30–45 seconds.
• Reaper: persistent and fast enough to corner you if your stamina is gone. Break line of sight and change rooms. Attack it from the sides or it bats your weapon out of your hands. It cannot jump high; ledges are safe.
• Robe: it stalks you slowly, but the moment you look at it, it accelerates drastically. Do not look at it. Walk away without eye contact and it cannot catch you.
• Clown: its laser sweeps horizontally at head height. Crouch under it. If it aims down, jump; if it aims up, stand still. Its kick is dodgeable by jumping or backpedaling.

Fight vs Avoid: The Decision Framework

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Step-by-Step Strategy Guide

Early Game (Levels 1–3) — Foundations

1. Open the map, find the extraction point, and plan a route before touching loot.
2. Clear rooms nearest the truck first. Create a safe perimeter.
3. Grab compact valuables only. Gems, gold bars, and jewelry beat furniture every time.
4. Load the cart methodically. Push it through cleared paths only.
5. Hit the quota and leave. Going over is nice, surviving is mandatory.
6. At the Service Station: Strength to 4 first, one Health, one Stamina, one melee weapon.

Mid Game (Levels 4–8) — Team Optimization

1. Expect multiple extraction points and more monsters. Plan which point to use in which order; each works once.
2. Assign roles explicitly. Scanner, Grabber, Driver, Fighter.
3. Use the map actively. Yellow dots are valued valuables, blue dots are items and carts, red dots are dead teammates.
4. Kite dangerous monsters. One player leads a Bowtie or Chef away while the rest extract.
5. Revive dead teammates immediately. Heads ride on the cart to the extraction zone.
6. Buy the second upgrade tier. Strength 4+ and Stamina 2+ change how the game feels.
7. Buy energy crystals now while they are cheap.

Late Game (Levels 9+) — High-Stakes Extraction

1. Monsters wake up almost immediately (22–33s idle, zero at 11+). Budge from the truck fast.
2. Environmental hazards everywhere. Never fight near pits or lava.
3. DL3 monsters are regulars. Respect every single one.
4. Stockpile energy. At 11K–18K late game they are prohibitive.
5. Use Q object mode strategically. Teammates carry you past dangerous corridors.
6. Always leave someone on cart duty. An unguarded cart gets destroyed by monsters or sucked in by a Trudge.
7. Coordinate extraction order. Highest value first. If time runs short, abandon cheap items.

5 Actionable Extraction Sequences

Sequence 1: Standard Room Clear

1. Approach door → crouch → listen for 3 seconds
2. Open door slowly → flick the flashlight
3. Room clear → scan for valuables → call out values
4. Monster inside → close the door quietly → mark it on the map → move on
5. Return after confirmation → grab the highest-value item → back to the cart

Sequence 2: Monster Evasion

1. Hear a monster cue → stop moving immediately
2. Identify direction and monster type from the sound
3. Crouch-walk to the nearest cover (corner, furniture, pillar)
4. Hold Q to enter object mode → wait 20–30 seconds
5. The monster enters Leave state or despawns → continue with caution

Sequence 3: Team Revive Under Pressure

1. Teammate dies → locate the head (pinged on the map)
2. Runner or Driver grabs the head
3. Place the head on the cart for safe transport
4. Clear a path to the nearest extraction point
5. Deposit the head → teammate revives with 1 HP
6. Health-share immediately to top them up

Sequence 4: Multi-Cart Logistics

1. Driver pre-positions 2–3 carts near the entrance
2. Grabbers fill cart one → Driver pushes it to extraction
3. Grabbers switch to cart two while Driver returns
4. Cart three stays mid-map as an emergency stash
5. Final two minutes: consolidate everything onto the active extraction zone

Sequence 5: Emergency Evacuation

1. Timer hits 2 minutes → call "final push" on voice
2. Everyone stops looting and moves toward extraction
3. Grabbers carry one high-value item each and sprint
4. Fighter watches the rear, delays pursuers
5. Driver counts heads at the zone, confirms everyone is present
6. Extract with 30+ seconds to spare. Never cut it close

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Advanced Tips

Tumble Tech

Sprint, jump, then press Q mid-air. You launch forward as a physics projectile. Tumble Launch upgrades extend the distance; Tumble Wings lets you glide; Tumble Climb lets you grab walls and ceilings and scramble around the environment while tumbled.

Combos:

• Tumble Launch + Clown Doll: detonate the doll (honk its nose 3 times) while tumbled to avoid the blast yourself.
• Tumble dash under attacks: sprint + crouch rolls you forward, dodging under laser sweeps, tricycle charges, and head dashes.
• Tumble + carry: a tumbled teammate can be picked up and thrown. Throw them across gaps, or have the Driver throw a tumbled player onto a high shelf to reach a Very Tall valuable.

C.A.R.T. Boosting

Hold the C.A.R.T. handle (STRONG mode, blue-green beam) and rotate to face the opposite direction. You get a speed boost while in front of the cart. This is the core speedrun movement tech. Only works as the host or in singleplayer. Put a Pocket C.A.R.T. inside a full C.A.R.T., face it forward, and hold its strong mode to "drive" the cart hands-free.

Extraction Piston Kills

The piston crushes anything under it. Lure small monsters (Apex Predator, Gnome, Banger) under the piston and extract. You get the kill reward plus the enemy valuable. A single Apex Predator cropped this way pays $2,000–3,000, and you can repeat it every extraction point.

Multi-Player Grab Lock

Two or more players grabbing the same Animal freezes it for several seconds. The same principle works on many breakpoint-listed monsters: use stacked grab strength to hold a monster still while the team unloads on it or dumps it into a pit.

Huntsman Stairs Trap

Hit a staircase with the Huntsman nearby. He follows the noise, falls down the stairs, takes physics damage, and stuns briefly. Wail on him during the stun window.

Upgrade Manipulation Loop

1. Reach the Service Station
2. Read the 10 upgrades in the shop
3. Wanted upgrade present → buy it, consume it
4. Unwanted upgrades → buy them, keep them in the truck unconsumed
5. Same unwanted set respawns in the shop → repeat until the wanted pool is all that spawns

Hotbar Discipline

Slots 1, 2, and 3 hold small items. Dedicate them to gems and jewelry. A full hotbar of compact valuables deposits in 3 seconds, roughly triple the efficiency of hand-carrying.

The 2.1% Preparedness Rule

A small chance exists that a DL3 slot becomes a swarm (6 Bangers, 4 Ducks, 10 Gnomes). When the map starts with a swarm, everything changes: mass noise, mass chaos, no single big threat. Split up early, never cluster, and clear swarms with thrown Bangers before they corner you.

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Solo Play Guide

Solo is the hard mode. The game is balanced around 3–4 players, and no one can revive you mid-level.

1. Strength is king. Rush to 4 Strength upgrades. You carry everything yourself.
2. Go slow. One mistake ends the run.
3. Monster management: two rooms away and 20–30 seconds is enough for most monsters to despawn or leave.
4. Priority ruthlessly: compact high-value items only. Never touch furniture.
5. Recommended path: Strength 4 → Health 1 → Stamina 2 → Range → Tumble Climb.
6. Avoid combat. You cannot afford the health loss. Hide and wait.
7. Extract early, extract often. Greed is the solo killer.
8. Use Q liberally. Object mode near walls is your best defense.
9. Tranq Gun for the Hidden. It is your only reliable counter.
10. Speedrun aid: at the Service Station, buy what you need and self-destruct to skip walking to the truck. Damage is undone when the next level starts.

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Locations

Disposal Arena Minigames

After a team wipe, the Taxman drops your tumbled bodies into one of two minigames:

• Battle Ring: an octagonal platform with rings that collapse outward. Kill the others with the weapons and valuables scattered around. Grab the crown for "King of the Losers" bragging rights until the next arena. If only one player enters the arena, they drop into the void: "GAME OVER."
• Scout Race: kart racing with Scouts. Platforms constantly drop, so keep moving forward. Use A/D to slide and ram rivals off course (risky, it slows you too). The crown flies to the last survivor. Note: weapons used in the prior game retain their charge state, so pre-check your gear.

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Recent Updates & Roadmap

R.E.P.O. is in active Early Access. Semiwork ships regular updates.

v0.4.4 (Latest Patch)

• Melee weapon handling scales with Strength. High-strength melee finally feels firm.
• 1 second of invincibility after revive.
• Zero Gravity Staff: players can fly when using it on themselves.
• Roll Staff now targets enemies.
• All staff weapons standardized to 6 battery pips.
• Cosmetic box spawns increased for Ultra Rare items.

v0.4.0 — The Cosmetic Update (May 2026)

• Over 500 cosmetic parts to unlock.
• Cosmetic Shop Machine and Cosmetic Boxes with a "bad luck" multiplier.

Upcoming

• A brand new level: TUMBLE CLIMB is the main focus of the next update, a vertical climbing layout built around the Tumble Climb upgrade.
• The game is marching toward a 1.0 full release.

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System Requirements

The game runs on Unity and is well optimized for the genre. On lower-end systems, disable volumetric lighting, reflections, and post-processing to hold 60 FPS.

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FAQ / Common Mistakes

Top 5 Mistakes Beginners Make

Quick Answers

Is R.E.P.O. free? No. About $3.49 on Steam, frequently discounted. The Singapore store shows S$9.50.

Can I play solo? Yes, but it is significantly harder. Difficulty scales with team size.

How many players? Up to 6 in online co-op. The sweet spot is 3–4.

Does R.E.P.O. have matchmaking? It is built for friends. Most teams form through the R.E.P.O. Discord or Steam friends.

What platforms? Windows PC via Steam. No console or Mac versions yet.

Does progress carry over? Upgrades and cosmetics purchased with cash persist. Run loot does not. A team wipe loses the run.

Is there an ending? No story campaign. The goal is to survive as many runs as possible and amass wealth.

Can I save mid-run? Checkpoints exist if the host exits without a full wipe. A wipe resets the run.

How do I revive teammates? Grab the dropped head, put it in the extraction zone. Revives at 1 HP with 1 second of invincibility. Heads in the zone at level end revive with +25 HP.

What is the best weapon? Early game: Wrench or Crowbar. Mid game: Tranquilizer Gun. Late game: Shotgun for emergencies, Frying Pan for melee, Clown Doll vs the Trudge.

Which upgrade first? Strength 4. It unlocks grabs on the DL2 light tier and makes melee usable.

Why does cash get rounded down? R.E.P.O. rounds down between levels. 9.6K becomes 9K. Plan your spending.

Has R.E.P.O. won awards? Golden Joystick Best Early Access Game, November 2025.

Is there a Fortnite crossover? Yes, Semibot outfits arrived in Fortnitemares, October 2025.

Are there staff weapons? Three: Zero Gravity, Roll, and Void staffs, added in v0.4.x. Six battery pips each, recharged with energy crystals.

What is the Shopkeeper? A special shop monster that tracks ruckus: noise, theft, and aggression. Be polite, pay for items, leave quickly. Third offense is an explosion.

What is the Duck Bucket? A shop item that pacifies the Apex Predator and Elsa. Place it on top of them.

Does voice chat matter to monsters? Yes. Text chat uses a robotic voice that counts as noise, and Push-to-Talk voice is audible to the Huntsman from 5x normal range.

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Quick Reference Card

Top priorities in order: Strength 4 → Health 1 → Stamina 2 → cheap crystals → Tumble tech.

The five rules that keep you alive:

1. Crouch in unfamiliar rooms.
2. Never sprint with loot.
3. Break line of sight the moment you are spotted.
4. Extract at quota, never chase one last item.
5. Treat every DL3 monster as an instant death you outrun, not a fight you win.