Defiance

About Defiance

Defiance is an open-world, cooperative shooter where players take on the role of Ark Hunters, journeying across a post-apocalyptic landscape in search of massive battles and epic adventure. Defiance 2050 was a remastered version made for a new generation of hardware, as well as being designed from the ground up as a free-to-play game with brand new systems and gameplay mechanics.

As a highly skilled Ark Hunter, players will journey far and wide to salvage valuable alien minerals and technologies that have been dispersed amongst the Earth via the destruction of the Votan planetary arks. Within events known as “arkfalls,” pieces of these valuable assets fall from the sky, leaving all of the Ark Hunters to compete for their claim to the bounty.

Ark Hunters can travel as a lone loves, taking on the world individually with their adept set of survival skills, or they can also contract through Von Bach Industries, which provides them with the greatest technologies of the new world. With a carefully placed nanotechnology known as EGO, Ark Hunters are fused with special abilities that give them a supreme advantage over average humans and Votan alike.

While the original version of Defiance was taken offline after being purchased by gamigo, Fawkes Games surprised fans of the game by announcing it would return (on PC only for now) in April of 2025. While they haven't exactly ruled out future new updates, a return of the 2050 version of the game, and a return to consoles, they have made it very clear that all of that depends on how well the game's return is received.