Swapmeat is a co-op roguelite third-person shooter where you drop onto a series of increasingly challenging planets and engage in combat with the unfriendly locals, swapping body parts with the alien weirdos you defeat. Attach a wide swath of strange (and usually squishy) heads, legs and torsos to your Meat Scientist suit, gaining powerful abilities to change up your play style on the fly.

Loot defeated enemies for fresh meat to top off your HP and fine-tune your arsenal of abilities as you face down the next wave of weirdos.

In Swapmeat, players step into the boots of Meat Scientists working for the multi-galactic corporation Rangus Meats. Your mission? Raid the weirdest worlds in the cosmos, engage in exhilarating third-person combat, harvest DNA samples from the locals, and extract the planets’ meat cores. Whether solo or with a four-player co-op squad, you’ll battle alien weirdos and beefy bosses for their meaty trophies. As you loot body parts – from heads and legs to torsos – you’ll enhance your character with game-changing abilities, switching up playstyles on the fly using Rangus Meats’ patented Smart Meat technology.

Running from March 6-12, players can get a taste of the game’s newest updates and go hands-on with the latest and greatest advancements in alien meat technologies from Rangus Meats. Players can sign up now for Meat Lab access to experience the game’s delightfully squishy – and surprisingly deep – meat-swapping gameplay mechanic at playSWAPMEAT.com.

The latest Meat Lab will run from March 6 at 10 a.m. PT through March 12 at 5 p.m. PT. Players who refer three friends will guarantee access for their entire squad (while supplies last).

The latest updates and improvements in this juicy new build include:

• Dastardly New Factions – Face off against two brand-new enemy factions, the Mutants and Aliens, each with four devious enemy types. Blast them to chunky bits and claim their leftovers to augment your character with increasingly bizarre body parts and powerful new abilities.
• A Whole New World – Discover the next planet on Rangus Meats’ harvest list, a Mutant homeworld teeming with danger. Even the most seasoned Meat Scientists will find this a tough cut to carve.
• Story Progression – Take your first bite of SWAPMEAT's meaty plot. Founder Carl Rangus now offers Employee Rewards, tracking your progress and celebrating outstanding employees with recognition badges, and granting access to new areas and latent powers.
• Mutated Abilities – Experiment with augmented mutations to create unique builds on the fly. Mix and match damage types – fire, ice, slime, electric, and kinetic – to different body parts for unexpectedly destructive results.
• Rangus Meats Quality Control – Enjoy even tastier gameplay with a buffet of quality of-life improvements, including:
• Integrated voice chat
• Full controller support
• A new player health bar and re-tuned health system
• More surprises in the latest patch notes

Key Features:

• Swapmeat has the deep and rewarding progression you’d expect from a great roguelite. Every time you make it back to the mothership with your meat parts intact, you can upgrade your weapons, your abilities, and even yourself.
• Play solo if you’re in the mood for a single serving, or squad up with 1-4 coworkers, err, friends — SWAPMEAT’s tuned for co-op shootin’ and lootin’! With shared upgrades, strategic teamplay, and brutal boss fights, the chain’s only as strong as its weakest (sausage) link.
• You’re a Meat Scientist for Rangus Meats, a multi-galactic corporation dedicated to discovering the ultimate sustainable meat product to feed the universe…at least that’s what you think…
• This ain't your daddy's third-person action shooter with roguelite elements. In SWAPMEAT, a run doesn't truly end until you take down a gargantuan Beefy Boss, a planet-spanning encounter that challenges your entire team to work together, just like a raid boss in other genres.

Swapmeat is in development for PC/macOS (Steam).