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Fight biomechanical enemies aboard an overrun spaceship, shaping each roguelite FPS run with elemental guns, augments, and upgrades.
Released 11 Aug 2025
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Trigger Elemental Chains
Shape Builds With Augments
Deadzone: Rogue is a roguelite FPS set in space. Blast through swarms of hostile machines, combine powerful augments and elements to forge your build, and grow stronger with each run — solo or in co-op.
Developed by Prophecy Games · Published by Prophecy Games
Deadzone: Rogue is a first-person roguelite shooter set aboard a spaceship overrun by biomechanical creatures. Fight through its sectors and missions while discovering more about the ship and your character's purpose.
Clear rooms of hostile machines using an arsenal of more than 30 weapons, grenades, and melee attacks. Weapons can gain elemental effects such as fire, ice, shock, and void; augments, perks, and items let you build around different combat approaches.
Runs combine mission challenges with choices of weapons and upgrades, while permanent upgrades carry progress between attempts. Set mission difficulty to suit your challenge, play solo or in co-op with up to three players, and use safe rooms to save and leave a run.
Players often enjoy the responsive shooting and weapon feel, and the way elemental effects, augments, and perks let them create distinct builds from run to run. Many also like the repeatable fight-and-upgrade loop, with some praising co-op as an especially fun way to play. Criticisms include steep difficulty in some later missions, multiplayer connection problems, and repetitive environments; many negative reviews focus instead on concerns about the developers moving on to a sequel.
Adventure on your own, or conquer the ship in a co-op squad of up to 3 players. Mark enemies for focused fire, synchronize grenade strikes, and storm enemies with overwhelming force. Adjust difficulty levels for each mission to match your mood, from a more laid-back adventure experience all the way to nightmare mode.
Fight against massive, biomechanical bosses that demand steady aim and quick reflexes. Annihilate waves of hunter-drones, robotic spiders, the mindless, and dozens of other enemies to survive each run. Battle through each ship sector — from the engine rooms to the brig.
Master over 30 powerful weapons, each modifiable with elemental affixes and upgrades. Turn a shotgun into a void-spreading crowd crusher, or a submachine gun into a room clearing hail of ice. From plasma cannons to sniper rifles, your arsenal adapts to any combat scenario.
Incinerate drones with fire, freeze swarms with ice, chain lightning enemies with shock, or send them to the void with a well-timed headshot.
Transform your combat approach through dozens of augments, perks, and items. Dominate from afar, strike from the shadows with stealth, or get close with enhanced melee. Your choices offer a unique experience against the mechanical onslaught.
Use permanent upgrades to reshape yourself into a killing machine. Boost your shields, amplify elemental chaos, and tear bots apart with satisfying fury. Forge a path that matches your playstyle.
Explore a spaceship overrun by biomechanical creatures, enjoy an original music soundtrack and art, and discover your true mission and origin.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 58 |
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| Players | 1–3 |
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| Multiplayer | Deadzone: Rogue supports solo play and online co-op. Official text states co-op squads of up to 3 players, and multiple reviews describe play with up to two friends. Steam lists Online Co-op and Cross-Platform Multiplayer. The provided information does not mention PvP, LAN, local multiplayer, splitscreen, or drop-in/drop-out support explicitly. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No information about mods affecting multiplayer is provided. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
