The room
The official FAQ says online co-op supports up to 4 players. Add friends by nickname, invite them, and start. Experience is shared. You revive a fallen teammate by standing next to them.
News dated 2026-10-21: if you go down, you can watch a teammate who is still standing while you wait to be revived. Use the button, Q or E, or LB and RB. The camera changes. It is camera only.
The legendaries page says the group goes into a rift together. If you fall, you return with no reward.
Invites use a nickname. A party-code format is absent from the official pages checked here.
Official guide (pokesurvivor.com/en/guide/, read 2026-10-29)
Official legendaries (pokesurvivor.com/en/legendaries/, read 2026-10-29)
Pauses and reconnects
News dated 2026-10-12: if the host switches tabs, the run pauses for everyone.
News dated 2026-10-20: friends no longer show who is online. You can invite any friend. If they do not join, the invite expires after 3 minutes.
News dated 2026-10-22: if the connection with the host drops for a moment, the guest run pauses for up to 45 seconds while reconnecting, then keeps playing.
News dated 2026-10-27: if the direct connection fails, the server connection of either player is tried, not only the host, and it is prepared when you join. You no longer need to keep retrying with one particular host just because that person's network worked before.
If the connection cannot keep up, the game waits for it to catch up instead of piling up delayed updates. You may see “waiting for the host” and a brief pause; the run should then be current rather than minutes behind. This waiting state is a recovery step, not evidence that a teammate has been removed.
The longer co-op page is co-op. Touch controls are on mobile. Cloud saves are on account recovery.
Who can see an IP
The English home legal text says group games connect browsers directly, so each player may see the other’s IP. Play with people you know. If the direct connection fails, the match goes through Firebase servers. That legal text was on the home page in the 2026-10-29 check.
News dated 2026-10-21 says a server path when you are signed in. If the networks cannot connect directly, the match goes through the game’s server. A direct connection is unchanged when it works. The two sentences stay separate, with their dates.
The itch build is solo
The itch.io page says the offline unzipped index.html build is solo only, and it saves in the browser. Co-op, cloud saves, and leaderboards are online at pokesurvivor.com.