Will To Live Online is a full version first person MMORPG-shooter game that takes place in a post apocalyptic world. The game features a sophisticated world history, which players can unravel by investigating all the enigmas and coming up with new marvelous findings. The game offers a large and open world full of mutants and anomalous radiating zones, as well as dungeons, mines, bunkers, and underground metro stations. Players can choose to play for one of the fractions on the wreckages of the foregone civilization, explore the world and its history, and engage in fierce confrontation of fractions and clans.

The game offers four different character classes, each with unique abilities and equipment. Players can customize their own unique male/female character and upgrade their character with various weapon skills and character abilities. The game also features a realistic ballistic weapon model that takes ballistics and specs into account, as well as a wide selection of original and unique weapons. Players can modify their weapons and add attachments to them, such as sights, suppressors, muzzle brakes, and change the look of their weapons and armor with the use of special painting tools. The game also features a complex crafting and equipment upgrade system, with regular updates adding new features to the game.