Funnel Runners Beginner Guide - How to Survive the First Tornado

Funnel Runners is a first-person co-op survival game from Supernova Studios LLC, sold on Steam as an Early Access title since Jul 16, 2026 at $10.49 in the US. The job is simple to state and hard to do: scavenge a collapsing city for van parts before a tornado finishes the map.

What the store listing says the game is

The store text opens with the premise. You are on your first on-site deployment with APEX Storm Monitoring Services, a high-priority F5 tornado is approaching, and you are counting on yourself and up to 7 fellow friends to collect data, scavenge information and survive.

It is tagged Action, Indie and Simulation, with Early Access listed among the genres. The developer and publisher line names Supernova Studios LLC for both roles.

The job, step by step

The listing describes a sequence of work rather than a set of modes, and it reads like a checklist for a first deployment.

• Deploy into the city while the storm is still building.
• Collect the data your organisation was sent for.
• Scavenge scattered vehicle parts, fuel and tools.
• Share gadgets and split up to cover more ground.
• Repair the van before the situation turns bad.
• Keep clear of the wind, because the listing warns you may not be found again.

There is no boss, no score and no extraction timer named on the store page. The van is the objective.

How many players, and what the tags allow

Eight players is the headline number, and the tag list backs the online arrangement rather than a couch one.

Store tag	What it covers
Multi-player	More than one player in a session
Co-op	Players working the same job together
Online Co-op	A group formed over the internet
Single-player	A solo deployment is supported
Full controller support	Gamepad input across the game

There is no Shared/Split Screen tag, so the advertised party is a remote one. Steam Cloud and Family Sharing are tagged alongside, and the game also carries a Stats tag.

Storms, destruction and what randomises

The weather is the antagonist, and the listing explains it as a system rather than a set piece. Storms spawn randomly, grow stronger over time, and tear the whole map apart; buildings collapse piece by piece, and items stop existing in destroyed areas, so the plan has to change mid-run.

That combination, random spawns plus permanent destruction, is why the store text calls each playthrough different: environments, weather, items and the vehicle problems are all described as randomised. No map list and no storm frequency are published.

What the listing does not publish

Because this is an Early Access release, three questions a new player would ask are still open: how long a run is expected to take, how many maps exist, and when the finished version is planned.

The store page prints a Roadmap section, but it is published as an image with no readable text in the store data we captured, so no milestone or date is quoted here. The launch facts are on Launch & Demo, and the specs are on Availability.