Casualties: Unknown Characters Guide: Playable & NPCs

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Casualties: Unknown Characters are scarce, which is expected in a game set in such a gritty and tough world. You have three main playable characters: Experiment, Milky, and Dune. You start with Experiment, and after finishing a run with Experiment, you unlock Milky as a playable character. She’s an upgrade compared to Experiment cause she is smarter. Finish a run with Milky to unlock Dune, the Beefiest of the characters. If you want to learn more about the characters, stick around and find out more.

All Playable Characters in Casualties: Unknown

There are three playable characters in Casualties: Unknown. Experiments are mass-produced, black-furred, fox-like characters, which are available from the very beginning of the game. Milkyies, white-furred fox-like creatures, are the second playable character that you unlock. The third character you unlock is Dune, which is a very weird insectoid that looks like a mix between a fox and an ant! They can breathe underwater too and like water a lot.

How to Unlock Milky and Dune

Finishing and getting any of the endings will result in unlocking the next character. You start with Expie, and getting any of the endings with it will unlock Milky. Finishing a run with Milky will unlock Dune for you, and finishing a run with Dune… well, it gives you a sense of accomplishment.

Every Character’s Abilities and Story

All characters are working for this unknown company. They are clones and are sent as disposable forces to retrieve a one-of-a-kind power source. So, no matter the character you choose, the start and the three endings are the same. It’s their abilities that make them unique and may push you to choose one over the other.

Experiment (SAW-01)

The default character. It is a mixture of fox, human, and rat genes. They have orange bioluminescent eyes, which give them better vision than the other two characters. They are all-rounders, with no exceptional strengths and no weaknesses, the best for feeling your way around the world of the game.

Their stats are very mid, but unlike the other two characters, they gain normal exp for all of their abilities, allowing you to build your character however you want, or the run requires.

Fun facts about Expies: chocolate poisons them. They have a lot of normal human-like reactions to situations and are very scared of the situation they are in, unlike the other two types.

Milky (SAW-03)

Milky is smart, but physically weak. It has a special condition as well. It’s Narcoleptic, meaning that it will sleep for 30 seconds every 10 minutes or so. Milky loses energy a lot faster when it’s awake and gains energy a lot more when it’s sleeping.

The speciality that Milky has is its intelligence. This leads to Milky being able to use firearms naturally, with the hotkeys rather than being forced to use the UI. Milky has limitations in its physical abilities and cannot gain exp like the others do in Strength and Resilience.

Milky is semi-herbivore, and eating meat will only restore half what it usually fills in the hunger bar and can cause sickness for Milky, so avoid it as much as you can.

Dune (SAW-12)

Dune is the muscle head of the bunch. Starting with an intelligence of 0 (Lord have mercy) but absurd numbers in Strength and Resilience, this character is made for the runs where you don’t care about reading, talking, or using tools a lot. The lack of intelligence also results in you receiving half the EXP in intelligence, so don’t waste your time trying to teach Dune writing and reading.

But 0 intelligence isn’t all downsides. Without Intelligence, morals don’t exist, and murder is much easier for this character, as you don’t get a mood penalty for it. Dune craves meat, and any plants or fruit given to it are vomited back. How does the game balance food for this creature? Cannibalism. You can eat corpses and other meat products with almost no risk of food poisoning.

Dune can breathe underwater, and considers sleeping underwater a good night’s sleep. Water is kinda essential to Dune, as it doesn’t have fur like the previous two characters, meaning that he’s very susceptible to harm in colder climates, and having enough liquids within him stops him from dying to freezing temperatures.

Which Character Is Best in Casualties: Unknown?

It really depends on what playstyle you are looking for. Experiment is good for newbies looking to learn the game or veterans wanting freedom in building their characters.

Milky is good for those who want to get into crafting and tool use as fast as possible, using guns, etc., to reach their goal. Milky isn’t strong physically, so you need to be extra careful and plan meticulously before going ahead with your run.

Dune looks really good at first glance with the very high physical attributes. But keep in mind the temperature that you have to manually control for the creature. Your character has 0 intelligence, so crafting certain items is nearly impossible. Pick him for those runs that you don’t want to focus on lore and crafting too much.

All Friendly and Neutral Survivor NPCs

You will find other characters throughout the planet you land on. All of them are from our three categories. They are either expies, milkies, or dunes. You can interact with them, trade with them, rest with them if the area is safe enough, or hug them for a little boost in mood.

How to Trade and Befriend Survivors

Your character meets other SAW experiments in their decent and can do a variety of activities with them. The most notable is trading. Successfully trading with NPCs increases your reputation. If built high enough, it allows you to hug them for a mood boost. You can haggle with the NPCs for better prices as well, tho Dune can’t do that, so it just uses friendly bites on their limbs (this will damage the NPC, so keep in mind not to overuse)

There’s also threaten, which can lead to NPC hostility toward your character and loss of reputation, so be careful when you use that.

Named Side Characters and Lore References

I have a list of characters that you can find named in notes and meet some in the game. They are not playable. Some are interactable, and some are related to the ending of the game.

FAQ

Casualties: Unknown

Survival Horror Survival & Crafting Exploration

Release Date

November 9, 2026

ESRB

Not rated

Developer(s)

Orsoniks

Publisher(s)

Oro Interactive

Steam

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