Abuse 2025

Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Abuse by Crack dot Com remains a timeless classic. Falsely imprisoned in an underground facility, Nick Vrenna becomes humanity's last hope when a genetic experiment called "Abuse" transforms guards and inmates alike into murderous mutants. As the only person immune to the infection, Nick must fight through hordes of grotesque creatures and security systems gone haywire to prevent the contaminated water supply from reaching the outside world. In this intense 90s action game, one man's quest for freedom becomes a desperate race to save humanity.

Experience revolutionary gameplay combining precision mouse aiming with fluid keyboard movement in this intense side-scrolling action platformer. Play through the whole campaign solo or in co-op, dive into community-created content, create your own challenging levels with the built-in editor, or challenge your friends in action-packed LAN multiplayer deathmatches. With its fast-paced combat and atmospheric pixel art, Abuse delivers non-stop action that holds up to this day.

Available as libre software, with source code released under open licenses and game assets as non-commercial freeware. The original shareware content is public domain, making Abuse one of pioneers in accessible, community-supported gaming.

Abuse 2025 is a modern port of the original game, updated to run on modern systems and with new features like high-resolution graphics, gamepad support, and more. This project is a continuation of the Xenoveritas SDL2 port and the Abuse 1996 project. It aims to be the go-to version for playing Abuse on modern systems.

Currently multiplayer between different platforms and on Windows is not supported.