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Fight Chaos-spawned enemies in a fast retro-styled FPS, exploring handcrafted levels for secrets, weapons, and upgrades.
Released 23 Sep 2022
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Find Hidden Ore
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Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Developed by Bounding Box Software Inc. · Published by Balor Games









Prodeus is a first-person shooter in which you battle the Prodeans and forces of Chaos across a campaign of handcrafted levels. Its story is delivered in brief text fragments, while its presentation pairs pixelated visuals with modern lighting and effects.
Move quickly through enemy-filled rooms, using a varied arsenal with alternate fire modes. Search levels for keys, secrets, and ore; collected ore can be spent to unlock weapons and abilities, while later movement upgrades can open up more areas to explore.
Beyond the campaign, the game includes a level editor and an in-game browser for community-made maps. Players can also team up in campaign co-op or compete in multiplayer modes such as Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Capture the Flag.
Players who enjoy Prodeus often praise its fast, direct combat, responsive movement, and weapons that feel satisfying to use. Retro-style visuals paired with modern effects, heavy metal music, gore, and secrets to discover also recur as highlights. Some reviewers find the campaign repetitive or its story too slight, and several criticize ore-gated unlocks and respawns that leave defeated enemies dead, reducing the stakes of dying.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 30 |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Metacritic | 84/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |