About This Game

You wake up with nothing. No shoes. No money. No friends. A brick in your hand and a whole city that does not care if you make it to morning.

And you are not alone. Thirty AI rivals play the same game you do: they gather, build bases, form crews, take turf and raid, whether you are online or not. So do the real players.

BRICK 2: Rags 2 Riches is an open-world survival game about starting at the very bottom of Brick City and taking your way to the top. Food, water, a roof, a gun, a car, a crew, a name people know: you take it, make it or steal it.

Play alone, with friends in co-op, or on online PvP servers that keep running when you log off. Every base you can see is one you can raid, and every one you build has to hold while you are gone.

In BRICK 2 today:

• Thirty AI rivals playing the same game you are: they gather, build bases, form crews, take turf, sell what they do not need, raid each other and talk in chat
  
• A huge island: Brick City's towers and blocks, two favelas stacked up the hillsides, suburbs, highways, forest, rivers, lakes, a frozen highland, dust flats and the sea
  
• Online PvP and co-op on dedicated servers, with a server browser and voice chat for everyone nearby, your crew or your party
  
• Rust-style base building: foundations, walls, doors, stairs, gates, garage doors and ladders, upgraded from wood to stone to metal, with code locks, tool cabinets and upkeep
  
• Power, turrets and traps: generators, cables, batteries, lights, spotlights, a Powered Smelter, spikes, barbed wire, landmines and bear traps
  
• Real ballistics: bullet drop, iron sights, scopes and attachments, from pipe pistols to sniper rifles, crossbows, rocket launchers and C4
  
• Rust-style backpacks: your pack falls off when you die with everything still in it, so someone has to go and get it
  
• Gang turf you can take, hold and protect with guards, traps and turrets, and airdrops worth fighting over
  
• Wanted stars, police waves, SWAT, and a police helicopter you can bring down
  
• Heists and dangerous places: Summit Bank, the military airbase, the prison, the Old Mine and the Abandoned Metro
  
• Cars to steal, buy at Big Tony's, wreck and repair; mountain bikes to ride and chain up; buses, taxis and a train around the city
  
• Hunting, fishing, farming, cooking and crafting, with gear that rolls a rarity from common to legendary
  
• Hustling on corners, crew rep, loan sharks, pawn shops, a gun store, and a phone full of contacts with jobs
  
• A Furniture Store to make your base a home: TVs with channels, your own security cameras on the TV, a boom box, darts, pool, arcade cabinets, a weapon rack and an armor mannequin
  
• Eighteen skills, 41 Steam achievements and leaderboards in the game, in the city, on Discord and on the BRICK 2 website
  
• Da BRICK, the free phone app: your live map, your crew, your cameras and raid alarms on your phone

EXPLORE

The island is big and it is not empty. Downtown towers and traffic lights, two favelas stacked up the hills, quiet suburbs, highways out into the forest, rivers you can swim, snow on the high ground and dust on the flats. Day turns to night, storms roll in, and the cold is something you dress for.

Ride the bus, hail a taxi, take the train around the city, or take a car that is not yours.

GATHER. CRAFT. BUILD.

Chop trees, break rocks, mine ore, scavenge bins and dumpsters. Smelt at a furnace, cook on a campfire or a stove, and work your way up three tiers of workbench and the tech sheets that unlock the best gear.

Then build: a foundation, walls, a door with a code on it, a second floor. Claim the ground with a tool cabinet, keep the upkeep paid, upgrade wood to stone to metal, wire up a generator and a Powered Smelter that works four times as fast. A base is a home until somebody brings C4.

MAKE IT YOURS

The Furniture Store on Broad Street sells everything a base needs to feel like yours: sofas, beds that become your respawn point, fridges and safes, a hot tub, darts and a pool table, arcade cabinets that play real games, and TVs with channels of music videos and news.

Put security cameras round your base and watch them on your own TV. Hang your guns on a weapon rack, dress an armor mannequin in your best gear and swap into it with one key, light the yard with spotlights, and turn the boom box up.

HUNT AND SURVIVE

Health, stamina, hunger and thirst all count. Hunt deer with a crossbow, fish the lakes, grow your own crops and dig them up for seed, and dress for the weather, because the highlands will kill you in the wrong clothes. Get sick, get hurt, get patched up.

THE CITY NEVER SLEEPS

Brick City runs without you: traffic, people on the pavements, food trucks, buses on their routes, the train on its loop. Hustle on a street corner, sell to the pawn shops, take out a loan you might not pay back, buy a car at Big Tony's, put a song on your phone. Your contacts text you with jobs. Some of them are even legal.

RIDE

Steal a parked car or take one as it drives past, search it for what the last owner left, and drive it on real physics with a speed limiter, a horn, headlights and the radio on. Or take a mountain bike: ride it, hop kerbs, fight from the saddle, and chain it to a post at your base so it is still there when you come back.

TAKE WHAT YOU WANT

Rob Summit Bank: blow the door, crack the vault, and get to the car before the stars stack up. The police come in waves, SWAT follows, and the helicopter does not give up until it is on fire.

Enemies see you, hear your footsteps and gunshots, and come looking. The military airbase has soldiers and the best gear on the island, the army comes out to raid, and the prison has its own problems. Bullets drop and take time to arrive, so line up the shot.

GANG WARS

Four gangs hold turf across the city, and two of them live in the favelas up on the hills. Take a flag and the turf pays your crew. Then keep it: pay for guards, traps and turrets at the flag, because the gangs and the rivals want it back.

Cargo planes drop airdrops over the island. Everyone hears the plane. Get there first.

RUN A CREW

Start a crew with your friends, or hire recruits at a Clubhouse, arm them, and give them jobs: guard the base, farm, mine, cook, smelt, hustle, or repair your walls and cars. Build your crew's rep, fill the crew treasury, take turf, and raid the people who raided you. Other players are the most dangerous thing on the island. So are you.

DA BRICK PHONE APP

Pair Da BRICK on your phone with your game or your server and keep an eye on things when you are not playing: the live map, your crew, your security cameras, your messages, the server's news, and a raid alarm that wakes your phone when someone hits your base.

COMPETE

Leaderboards for cash, kills, hunting, fishing, cars stolen, longest life and turfs taken, for players and crews, this wipe and all time: in the game, on boards around the city, posted to Discord every day, and on the BRICK 2 website. And 41 Steam achievements to earn along the way.

ON THE ROADMAP

This is Early Access. These are the plans for what comes next (not things in the build today), and the order is decided by what players ask for:

• Something to spend a fortune on. Property and businesses to own
• More of the city. More places to go into, more jobs, more to steal
• Server tools for people who run their own servers: wipes, rules and admin controls
• Steam Workshop, so modders can keep it alive

JUMP IN

Press F1 in the game for the full How to Play guide, find a server in the server browser, and come and tell us what you think on Discord. Start with a brick. See how far you get.

TECHNICAL INFO

• Engine: Unreal Engine 5.8
• View: first and third person
• Modes: single-player, co-op, online PvP, and dedicated servers you can host yourself
• Platform: Windows (Steam)

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Pre-Generated:

Some of this game's art and code were made with the help of AI tools, and then edited, rigged, tested and integrated by hand.

- Character models for the police, SWAT officers, gang members and prisoners were generated with Meshy.ai, then re-rigged in AccuRIG and animated with hand-authored animation.
- The title screen background, the loading screen backgrounds and the inventory item icons were made with OpenArt.
- Parts of the game's source code were written with the help of an AI coding assistant. All of it was reviewed and tested before it shipped.
- Store page text and some marketing images were written and made with AI assistance.

Everything else — the world, the buildings, the vehicles, the weapons, the music and the sound — is either hand-made or licensed from asset marketplaces.

Live-Generated:

None. Nothing in this game is generated by AI while it is running.

The game's AI survivors are simulated characters, not a language model. What they say is a fixed set of hand-written lines chosen by what they are doing at the time, and their decisions come from an ordinary game-AI system running on the player's machine. The game makes no calls to any AI service at runtime.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

While a player can remove all of their clothes, there is no genitalia on males or females.