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Exterminauts Closed Beta Opens the Worksites of Planet Tian
Alien extermination sounds glamorous until somebody asks you to repair the refinery while everything around it is trying to eat you. Behaviour Interactive, publisher Level Infinite and TEAM SHOOTER & CREATIVE have opened the first closed beta for Exterminauts, giving selected PC players a week to clock into its peculiar version of blue-collar science-fiction work.
The test begins November 12 and runs until November 18, with access available through Steam Playtest. Players can tackle jobs alone or form a three-person crew as they descend from an orbital base to hazardous worksites across Planet Tian.
Exterminauts was first revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live, where Behaviour introduced its blend of third-person PvE shooting, workplace comedy and alien pest control.
Four Work Orders Put Crews on the Clock
The beta offers considerably more than the initial announcement suggested. Behaviour has confirmed four main Work Orders, ranging from refinery breakdowns to an overrun security tower, alongside three Odd Jobs and three Extra Shifts. Players can repeatedly deploy into locations including Ironwake Factory, Sporewood Crater and Tycho Arches.
Every deployment mixes an actual job with increasingly aggressive extraterrestrial interference. Crews might be fixing infrastructure or completing another contract objective when the local wildlife decides to make the shift considerably more complicated.
Successful Work Orders reward resources that can be spent improving equipment and upgrading tools before the next deployment, creating an extraction-style loop where getting the work finished is only half the problem. Crews still need to survive long enough to leave.
That gives Behaviour something notably different from its flagship Dead by Daylight, which continues expanding after reaching its 10th anniversary, even as the studio develops multiple projects outside asymmetric horror.
Overdrive Turns Power Tools Into Alien-Killing Hardware
The beta also provides a much broader look at the equipment behind the extermination business. Players can build loadouts using seven Kinetic Weapons, four Polymorphic Weapons, four grenades and six gadgets. Polymorphic weapons can trigger Overdrive, temporarily pushing their capabilities further when a standard tool is no longer enough for the infestation in front of them.
Three FDS combat paths support different approaches built around critical hits, healing or freeze effects, while enemies can have limbs removed and weak points targeted to alter how individual fights develop. The press release also promises additional alien pests and another hostile worksite during the test, expanding the threats crews encountered in earlier builds.
The new gameplay trailer offers a better look at Work Orders, Overdrive and the chaos that develops when three technicians attempt to keep a facility operational while fighting off Tian’s wildlife.
Exterminauts Is Still Waiting for a Release Date
Selected players can request access to the closed beta through Steam, although registration does not guarantee entry.
Exterminauts is coming to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PC via Steam and the Epic Games Store. Behaviour has not announced a final release date, with its current Steam listing remaining simply “Coming soon”.
For now, the beta offers the clearest look yet at what Behaviour is building away from The Fog: a workplace where broken machinery, hazardous contracts and giant alien infestations are all apparently covered by the same job description.
