Tales of Kenzera: ZAU's next venture is an extraction pla...

What’s Happening

Here’s the thing: I’m finding Surgent Studios, the developer of Tales of Zenzera: ZAU and Dead Take, increasingly difficult to pin down, though, not in a rough way.

Those two games are a far cry from one another in both atmosphere, genre, and mechanics, and now the studio’s next game is something completely different once again: FixForce, an extraction platformer, a combination of words that might finally pin down Those Types of Games. Read more Home News Tales of Kenzera: ZAU’s next venture is an extraction platformer fusion of Lethal company and Garry’s Mod called FixForce Plus there’s a dash of Ratchet and Clank for good measure Image credit: Surgent Studios News by Oisin Kuhnke Contributor Feb. (yes, really)

26, 2026 Follow FixForce I’m finding Surgent Studios, the developer of Tales of Zenzera: ZAU and Dead Take, increasingly difficult to pin down, though, not in a rough way.

The Details

Of Games, I mean the likes of Lethal company , Peak, and the many others that have followed. Extraction platformer might better apply to the latter there, but I think it’s closer, and much less annoying a term, than friendslop.

Is a game where you and five friends find yourself in a flooded, post-apocalyptic but quite colourful city, where you must venture forth to find parts to fix various machines and gizmos. FixForce | Official Trailer | Surgent Studios Watch on YouTube To navigate dropped world, you must use things like wooden pallets, girders, and other miscellaneous items to build bridges, stairs and the like.

Why This Matters

You do so using a drill-wrench, which is basically just Half-Life ‘s gravity gun, albeit you can freeze things in place to make those makeshift platforms. Upon finding all the relevant parts and fixing up those machines, you can clock out and get out of there, and the cycle begins anew. You’ll of course find plenty of risks, but you’re a robot so it’s alright if your head literally comes off; friends can carry your head or body around in such situations and put you back together, say, in the event of an evil robot blowing you up, or you get too much water in your system.

Gaming fans have strong opinions about moves like this, and for good reason.

The Bottom Line

You’ll of course find plenty of risks, but you’re a robot so it’s alright if your head literally comes off; friends can carry your head or body around in such situations and put you back together, say, in the event of an evil robot blowing you up, or you get too much water in your system.

Are you here for this or nah?