[1] Players can utilize a variety of melee weapons to defeat enemies, whose limbs can be targeted and removed individually.

When players kill or dismember their opponents, they can collect and equip the weapons, armor enhancements or tech left by them.

Jericho city, the game's setting, offers alternate paths which players can explore freely.

[4] The Surge 2 is set in a dystopian future where humans have exhausted the world's resources, leading to strained social and environmental conditions bringing mankind to the brink of extinction.

Led by Matriarch Celeste, the cult believes that the coming of the nanites is foretold by their prophecy of humans ascending beyond mortality by merging with machines.

The Children are split into two factions under Celeste's two sons; Eli, prophet and heir to the Spark, and Johnny, his drug-addicted, slovenly brother who uses a physical-enhancing drug to manipulate his underlings.

The UTOPIA rocket collides with the plane, releasing its nanite payload which severely damages the craft, causing it to crash on the outskirts of Jericho City.

The Warrior pursues Athena's trail to the artificial nature reserve, Gideon Point, where the Delver is hiding.

command and discovers that they have been abducting children under the guise of evacuation and using them in failed nanite-based experiments to try and communicate with the nanite swarm.

The Warrior returns to CIT and finds Eli has been resurrected and trying to gain access to Jonah's nanite research.

After the Warrior kills Eli for a second time, Jonah reveals that he can remove Athena from the swarm, but that they will require a significant power source, the Spark.

It is implied that the Warrior died in the plane crash, and Athena used her abilities to revive them as a hybrid of man and nanite.

By changing the setting, Deck13 was able to implement more diverse environments and introduce more alternate paths and characters for players to meet.