Inferno Protocol Enemy Tier List

Inferno Protocol does not ship a public bestiary with HP bars. This ranking uses named patch creatures, official screenshots, and press-kit behavior. Threat is how likely this is to end a marked run, not cinematic scariness. How to fight is in combat. How to harvest the leftovers is in crafting.

S tier threats

Giant Rat. Added as a full creature with chase, attack, grab, and roam. The grab is a QTE. A failed prompt in a six-stack still eats a player while everyone else panic-fires. Solo, it is a run-ender if you are in a dead-end. Respect roam state. Do not harvest during chase. Traps on the chase line, not in your own ladder.

Trash eater (crocodile-like). Explodes when fed dynamite or grenades. That is both the kill condition and the wipe condition. S because a misthrow in a narrow Junkyard hall deletes the mark-maker. Kite into a planted teleport trap if you have one. Do not stand on the reward pile.

Hostile camps that shoot first. Official copy: some corridor people will not wait for you to draw. Humanoids with guns break the stagger-zombie script. Treat unknown camps as S until you see a trade interior UI. Peek, silence proximity, send two.

A tier

Corridor brutes / bloated hallway creatures. The muzzle-flash screenshot is a width check. They occupy the lane. Shotgun or trap, not a shoulder check. Harvest is rich if you live. Noise pulls walkers behind you.

Jungle stalkers (glowing-eyed small figures). Shown near a humming device in foliage. Audio and camouflage. Crossbow and katana. A shouting squad turns A into S.

Plant-like torch hallway horror. Official settlement-adjacent shot: a fanged, winged plant body in a dark room. Torch in one hand means you already failed stealth. Bring a second tool.

B tier

Junkyard walkers. Humanoid, locational hit reactions, stagger-cancel works. The melee update was built for them. Dangerous in packs and in day-occupied interiors, manageable with discipline. Head and body react differently; use that feedback.

Day-interior packs. Not a species — a schedule. Rooms that hold creatures by day and empty at night. B if you know the clock (wrist watch item helps), S if you kick a door at noon without a plan.

C tier

Roaming singles you already marked. A walker on a trapped, sprayed route is content. If it still kills you, the failure was navigation or ammo math, not the monster.

Settlement-adjacent wildlife you can see from walls. If you have a built sightline and a bear trap, you are farming, not fighting.

Layer notes

Junkyard teaches stagger and guns. Jungle punishes noise. Swamp punishes light and rain-dependent barrels. Winter is named on achievements and was not in the three-playable-layers Early Access statement, so it is not ranked. When it lands, expect a new audio palette and a roadmap line, not a copy-paste of Junkyard walkers.

Voice-aware AI is the hidden S-tier modifier on every row. If proximity chat is on, bump every creature one letter. The co-op guide is the counter-rank. Injectors shift matchups: extra health buys a mistake, dash buys a kite, NV buys a night interior, rage buys a wipe if you tunnel. See the injector ranking.

We will add names when Steam news adds names. Until then, if it grabs, it is a rat problem. If it explodes when fed bombs, it is a trash eater problem. If it talks, it might still shoot.

Threat by job, not by lore

The mark-maker dies to Jungle stalkers and hallway brutes because they walk first. The harvester dies to walkers they thought were staggered. The trap lead dies to their own unmarked bear trap. The injector dies to unlabeled mutations they ranked as S in their head. Read this list as a warning per role from the co-op guide, then pick a weapon that matches the row: katana for stalkers, shotgun for brutes, explosives for the trash eater, patience for camps.

Night interiors shuffle the letters. A room that is B at 3 a.m. can be S at noon. The wrist watch exists so you can schedule that. If you do not know the clock, assume occupied. If you do not know the name, assume it can grab, explode, or shoot, and fall back to a wall you built instead of inventing a fourth option in a Swamp bottleneck.