Helldivers 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the 2015 Indie hit Helldivers, created by developer Arrowhead Games Studio. The original release was a tough and punishing top-down twin-stick shooter that allowed players to band together in cooperative gameplay to protect the citizens of Super Earth from galactic threats. Players could join one another and undergo a variety of missions that transported them to hostile planets, forcing them to complete various missions while contending with aliens, robots, and other hostile creatures. It offered a fun gameplay loop that really ramped up the difficulty in later missions, with a friendly-fire mechanic and all sorts of stage hazards that kept players on their toes and forced them to work together closely to avoid failure.