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Phantom Line: Prologue guides
Walkthrough, husk tactics, containment runs, survival budgets and squad play for the free Prologue chapter.
Start with the essentials
- Phantom Line: Prologue husk system guide and solo husk tacticsWhat H.U.S.K. is, how many bodies you get by squad size, and how to use the AI-held husk when you are playing alone.
- How to contain anomalies in Phantom Line: PrologueWhat an anomaly is, why a containment run is squad work rather than a single target, and the order of operations inside the zone.
- Phantom Line: Prologue anomaly pockets, and what is behind the portalsWhat lies behind the unstable portals on the island, why they are generated, and what entering one costs you.
- Chapter
- Free introductory Prologue
- Players
- 1–4, PvE only
- Modes
- Single-player, online and LAN co-op
- Store
- Steam and Epic Games Store
- Base of operations
- Icebreaker Hestia
Every guide on this site
Start with your first deployment
Run the job
- How to contain anomalieswhat an anomaly is, why a containment run is squad work rather than a single target, and the order of operations inside the zone.
- Anomaly pocketswhat lies behind the unstable portals on the island, why they are generated, and what entering one costs you.
- Quintessence upgradeswhere the progression resource comes from, the three things it pays for, and why the upgrades land on the husk you are wearing.
Stay alive in the field
- Hunger, hazards and inventory spacehow the four survival states feed each other, what to decide before you deploy, and how radiation and toxic zones spend the same budget.
- Fire modes and gunplay changesthe weapon work in the Prologue build, why fire discipline matters when ammunition is tracked harshly, and how a squad divides its gear.
Play together
About this site and recent updates
Phantom Line: Prologue is the free opening chapter of Phantom Line, a 1–4 player tactical co-op survival horror FPS. You play as an OPERATOR in a paranormal SWAT unit working for Mortfield Industries, deployed into the IRON CORRIDOR to investigate a research facility that has lost contact just as nuclear war breaks out.
More context
The Prologue covers the introductory island: operator training, a first story mission, then Hestia and the island's open-world systems. Every guide below is written for that chapter.
Recently reviewed guides
Phantom Line: Prologue anomaly pockets, and what is behind the portalsAnomaly Pockets are procedurally generated realities behind unstable portals on the introductory island, and they are where containment work actually happens.Phantom Line: Prologue co-op guide for solo, duos and squadsWhat changes when other people are in the session: husk counts scale down as the squad grows, equipment is divided rather than duplicated.How to contain anomalies in Phantom Line: PrologueThe order of operations inside a containment zone, from securing the perimeter to finding the anomaly with detection gear and pulling out alive.Phantom Line: Prologue dynamic events on the islandThe island's events are generated rather than placed, so a known location does not guarantee a familiar encounter.Phantom Line: Prologue fire modes and how the gunplay changedThe four weapon changes in the Prologue build, why ammunition is tracked harshly, and how a squad divides the gear that pays for it.