FragPunk

It features a shard card system, hero shooter and tactical shooter gameplay. Each player assumes control of an attacker or a defender in the main mode, Shard Clash. FragPunk has no campaign and features a custom mode that can be played solo.

• Title — FragPunk • Developer — Bad Guitar Studio • Publisher — NetEase • Engine — Unreal Engine • Platform — * Windows • PlayStation 5 • Xbox Series X/S • Released — * Windows • March 6, 2025 • PS5, XSX/S • April 29, 2025 • Genre — * First-person shooter • Hero shooter • Modes — Multiplayer

FragPunk is an online multiplayer tactical hero shooter game featuring 2 teams of five players using characters with distinctive abilities, called "Lancers". Two opposing teams, defenders and attackers compete in the main game mode "Shard Clash" to plant or defuse the Converter at a target site. During the preparation phase of each round, players can contribute shard points to purchase Shard Cards. Each team is given a selection of 3 cards randomly chosen from the unlocked cards of all teammates. Every Shard Card has a total cost that must be reached by the total contributions of a team for it to take effect that round. Each card has an effect that remains active for the round. FragPunk had 169 cards on its release. Most of the cards need to be unlocked during gameplay process and level-up. The game features a variety of weapon types, including shotgun, submachine gun, assault rifle, light machine gun, marksman weapon, sniper rifle, pistol, utility gun, Dagger. Weapons are also divided into 3 classes: Primary Weapons, Secondary Weapons, Melee Weapons. At launch, FragPunk featured 7 maps, 13 playable characters and 7 main modes. In addition to the core modes (Shard Clash and Shard Clash Ranked), players can also access Arcade Modes, which include Outbreak, Team Deathmatch, Duel Master, Capture The Core, and Scrimmage.

Each new season is intended to bring with it the release of a new playable character and other new content such as new maps, new weapons and new modes. Seasons are further broken down into chapters, each chapter also includes a free, premium, and ultimate battlepass. Season 1 Chapter 1 started on March 6, 2025 with the release of new playable character Chum and new map Dongtian. After that, Season 1 Chapter 2 began, releasing another new character, Dex. • Title — Season — Chapter — Start — Description • Wild Dawn — 1 — 1 — March 6, 2025 — Wild Dawn introduced a new playable character known as Chum and new map Dongtian as well as lots of bugfixes and gameplay improvements, including movement changes. • 2 — April 25, 2025 — Wild Dawn: Chapter 2 added a new character, Dex, a new deathmatch map, Aesir, and a new Headshot Only mode.

FragPunk was developed by Bad Guitar Studio. The game was created with "punk" style to emphasize character designs. A closed alpha was run from June 28 to July 2024, and a closed beta was run later in the year from October 10 to 21. The game was then released worldwide on March 6, 2025, for Windows on Steam and Epic Games Store. Versions for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles were also expected to be released the same day, but were delayed to a later date shortly before release due to "unexpected technical challenges in optimization and adaptation." The delay was initially reported to be until March 7, but Bad Guitar stated its goal was to have the game ready for a console release "within the next two months". Once the game releases onto console platforms, it is set to be cross-play.

2 days after its launch, FragPunk surpassed a peak of 100 thousand concurrent users.