The world of cooperative horde shooter Deep Rock Galactic is getting tailored to a brand new setting: A survivors-style auto-horde-shooter the place a single dwarf takes on the buggy hordes all on their very own. The trailer (opens in new tab) for Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor dropped at this time alongside a Steam web page and a free Early Entry launch date of “2023.”
The spinoff will launch into Early Entry, the place it guarantees to have 4 characters, 30-some weapons, 10 or so enemies, 1-3 bosses, and 3-5 biomes to discover in the identical mission-based extraction gameplay that has you escape together with your loot to purchase everlasting upgrades for future missions. Maybe probably the most intriguing bit is that you will nonetheless be mining stuff and that it will nonetheless have the identical type of procedural cave technology that Deep Rock Galactic is thought for.
“Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is a single participant survivor-like auto-shooter,” says the very excited sport description. “Wield the complete arsenal of Deep Rock Galactic, tackle hordes of deadly aliens, mine riches, and unlock highly effective upgrades. It is one dwarf in opposition to all of Planet Hoxxes!”
(As a short apart, can we… not name them “survivor-likes?” We have already acquired survival as a style and that is uncomfortably shut.)
The trailer and screenshots accessible to date showcase quite a lot of weapons, from pistols and miniguns to flamethrowers, shotguns, and autocannons. There are additionally some classic-looking spinning orb defend issues. You understand the sort: Enemy hits the orb, enemy goes increase, orb comes again some time later. Curiously, the participant appears to have some type of weapon slot system, that means possibly you turn between weapons slightly than hearth all the things like in different survivor video games.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor shall be revealed by DRG’s authentic builders Ghost Ship, but it surely’ll be developed by exterior studio Funday Video games. Not too shocking, because the success of Deep Rock Galactic prompted little Danish studio Ghost Ship to get into publishing within the first place, and it’s extremely cute to see DRG getting franchised out.
You will discover Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor on Steam (opens in new tab). It is set to launch this yr, in 2023.
