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Explore a post-apocalyptic world, loot and fight NPCs or players, take missions, modify weapons, and build a defensible base.
Released 05 Dec 2024
Raid Enemy Bases
Build Turreted Fortresses
Modify Your Firearms
An Open World Survival Shooter blending hardcore PVP and PVE action. Secure precious loot in safe zones or build your own fortress in the wild. With intense gunfights, stunning visuals, and performance smooth enough for any system, the challenge awaits!
Developed by Bad Pixel · Published by Bad Pixel, tinyBuild
Deadside is an online survival shooter set in a post-Soviet apocalypse. Explore forests, rivers, and settlements, scavenge for gear, and face NPC patrols as well as other players.
Take missions with marked objectives, fight NPCs, and search for weapons, supplies, and other loot. Firearms can be fitted with attachments such as scopes, magazines, flashlights, and silencers; combat also includes traps and smoke grenades.
Craft gear and build a base outside settlements, from a small shelter to a fortified compound with turrets and traps. Store loot and vehicles there, or use safe zones for storage. Servers offer PvP, PvE, or scheduled raiding, while cars, motorcycles, boats, and metro fast travel provide ways to cross the map.
Players who praise Deadside often enjoy its shooting and weapon customization, and describe missions, looting, and encounters with NPCs or other players as an engaging gameplay loop. Some also appreciate building a base, exploring with friends, and choosing between PvP and PvE. These positives appear alongside recurring complaints in the reviews about grind, NPC difficulty, travel, and PvP server experiences.
DEADSIDE blends your favorite Survival Shooter elements in a fast-paced open world where progression is swift and loot is plenty. Obtain valuable gear, and store it in a safe zone. Or build your own fortress in the wild, securing it with turrets, making it cozy while boosting your stats, and use it to store your vehicles and loot. Traverse the world by foot, car, motorcycle, boat, or a Quick Travel metro system. Make friends or enemies. Join PVP or PVE servers. Explore the vast open world filled with challenging events, and raid your enemies.
We have 3 main types of servers in DEADSIDE 1.0: PVP, PVE, and PVP scheduled raids
Note on all 3 types of servers your player disappears when offline with all loot on your body
PVP servers provide an intense hardcore experience where players can engage in fights, and can raid each other’s bases with no limits.
PVE servers are a more chill experience where you can interact with other players, and can’t fight each other or raid/steal each other’s bases. We recommend this mode to learn the game’s mechanics.
PVP scheduled raids have specific times on the server when raiding is allowed
Nobody likes running forever in open world survival games. DEADSIDE has boats, motorcycles, cars, and a Fast Travel System to easily get around the map. Secure your vehicles with codelocks and use them for storage.
Build a secluded shack or a secured fortress. We made it easy to build with an intuitive tool, and added plenty of comfort items which are useful for gameplay boosts. Secure your base with passive defenses such as turrets and traps. Store your vehicles, and keep your hard earned loot safe from raiders.
Explore the forests, rivers, and settlements of this post-soviet apocalypse. You can build anywhere outside of settlements. Challenging NPCs patrol the map, and your progression is solely decided by your own skill. There are no levels or bars. Your level is your skill and the equipment you acquire.
It's all about the ballistics and variety of weapons. Choose from 32 firearms, and modify them with scopes, expanded mags, flashlights, silencers and other modules. Feeling tactical? Setup tripwire traps, respawn bags, use smoke grenades for cover. The combat system is designed to be hardcore. Combine this with an intuitive missions system with clearly marked objectives on the map and you have the perfect hardcore survival shooter.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 29 |
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| Players | 1–70 |
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| Multiplayer | Deadside is a multiplayer open-world survival shooter with online PvP and online co-op. Official descriptions and reviews indicate PvP, PvE, and scheduled-raids server types, plus teaming/squad/group systems for playing together. Server population is explicitly mentioned in reviews, with current server caps reported as up to 70 players. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Reviews mention private servers with custom settings such as loot rates, mission rates, starter cash, first-person-only rules, and PvP/PvE configurations. No evidence in the provided text confirms gameplay mods beyond server configuration. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 16 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
