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As Naut, fight through a shifting space station with a katana, guns, and abilities, carrying discoveries across roguelite runs.
Released 10 Sep 2025
Parry Through Hordes
Slash With A Katana
Mix Blades And Guns
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.
Developed by Voidmaw · Published by Acclaim, Inc.
You play as Naut, exploring a space station whose inhabitants have become monstrous as you try to uncover what happened there. The station’s corridors and deeper areas set the scene for a sci-fi horror adventure.
Fight through 2D platforming levels with a katana, firearms, and special abilities. Jump, dash, dodge, and parry as you face groups of enemies and tougher boss encounters; weapon and ability choices let you vary how you approach combat.
Each run offers changing routes and opportunities to scavenge memory fragments. Fragments carry forward to the hub, where you can unlock skills, weapons, perks, and implants and improve Naut, then take those options into another run.
Reviewers often enjoy the fast, responsive combat, especially combining katana strikes, dodges, parries, guns, and abilities. The pixel-art space horror setting and soundtrack are also recurring sources of praise, as are the unlocks and build options that make players want to start another run. Some reviewers say the opening feels too easy or shallow before later encounters become more demanding, and opinions differ on combat balance, boss difficulty, and visual clarity.
Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite set aboard a massive space station falling into cosmic chaos. With the station slowly spiraling out of control, and its once-human inhabitants twisted into terrors, you’re the unlucky one tasked with uncovering what is going on... assuming you’re able to survive the station's violent halls with souls-like combat.
As Naut, you explore the corridors of this once vibrant station... or what's left of it. The deeper you descend into the station, the environments become more haunting, and the enemies less human.
Through advanced time-manipulation, you’re brought back to life whenever your bio-metrics are no longer detected. In the future where humans are able to download new abilities on demand, the station is now scattered with memory fragments from the fallen. Each one having the potential of being a lost skill or talent waiting to be unlocked.
Every run offers a new pivoted challenge with ever-changing pathways to explore, and pits you against hordes of enemies. Each ride down the station's elevators carries forward progress from the memory fragments you scavenge along your exploration.
In Katanaut, each clash of your blade echoes through the station's empty and flickering corridors, where every corner feels like is a surprise watching you... Whether you thrive in precision combat or prefer dealing with enemies from a safe distance, this is one cleanup job you won't forget.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 110 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 75/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
