This multiplayer survival shooter looks like serious business at first. It’s 1970s Sweden, and outside the sprawling tenement building you call home, bombs are falling. With minutes before all-out war begins, your goal is to get to a bus that will take you to safety. The trouble is, everyone else is trying to escape, too, so with the clock ticking and limited space on the bus, you must gather what weapons and armour you can and fight or craft your way to safety.
There are signs everywhere that 5 Fortress’ opus isn’t taking itself all that seriously, though. First, there’s the pace: bouts currently last a brisk 20 minutes, which discourages players from endlessly camping out on rooftops with a sniper rifle or tinkering away at a crafting table. While…