Into The Hive solo guide: preparation and expedition options

Yes, you can play Into The Hive alone. The game supports one to four players and explicitly allows solo expeditions.

• Before heading out: choose your weapons and tools, and customize your equipment with Augments at base.
• During the expedition: expect randomly generated caves and insect swarms. Keep an eye on the ceiling, and remember that breaking through a wall can open a route.
• After completing the mission: make the run back to extraction; account for that return journey when heading out.

Preparing for a solo expedition

You do not need to assemble a squad to go into the hive. Solo play is an explicit option within the game's one-to-four-player format, so the co-op description does not require you to bring friends.

Equipment preparation includes choosing both weapons and tools. Augments are another part of that preparation: back at base, you can use them to customize your equipment before the next expedition. These are connected choices for your loadout—what you bring and how you customize it—rather than steps to perform while navigating the cave.

For more on that part of preparation, see the equipment guide and Augments guide.

Cave routes and expedition awareness

Expeditions combine exploration of randomly generated caves with fighting insect swarms. The cave's terrain is destructible, and breaking through a wall can open a route. That gives you a way to change a passage through the terrain as part of exploration. See the wall-breaking guide for that specific topic.

Keep an eye on the ceiling as you explore, too. Make looking upward part of your attention to the cave alongside the route ahead.

A deployable turret is another expedition option. Its stated role is to provide cover for a squad, making it relevant if you choose to bring friends on a later run. That squad-cover role is separate from the game's explicit support for entering alone.

Finish the mission, then return to extraction

The expedition sequence continues after mission completion: you must then make the run back to extraction. Treat the objective and the return as separate parts of the outing, so reaching the mission goal is not mistaken for the end of the journey. The extraction guide covers that stage.