Deep Rock Galactic is going rogue with an all-new spinoff game coming next year

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To be blunt, the success of Deep Rock Galactic was a surprise to me. A game about «space dwarves» mining for resources while fighting off hostile aliens in the deepest reaches of space sounds a little niche, doesn't it? Especially without a Warhammer 40,000 license attached to it. And yet, it's a hit: An «overwhelmingly positive» rating across nearly 200,000 user reviews on Steam, and more than three years after its 2020 launch—which came after two years of early access—it still regularly draws thousands of concurrent players. 

Now developer Ghost Ship Games has announced that a new game set in the same universe, called Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core, is coming in 2024.

In some ways, Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core sounds a lot like its predecessor. It's a co-op FPS for one to four players set in procedurally generated, destructible caves about a team of dwarven «Reclaimers» sent to retake control of lost deep mining operations on Hoxxes IV, «the deadliest planet in the galaxy» that also happens to be the richest resource deposit ever discovered—and thus, your workplace. The Steam page says the core gameplay of Rogue Core «builds on» Deep Rock Galactic and will feature the same basic mechanics, including traversal tools, weapon synergies, and «laser pointer shouts.»

The big difference is that Rogue Core is built around a roguelite structure. «This means that you start each mission with only the very basics, but as you progress through each run you will get upgrades, equipment and abilities and possibly end up with very powerful builds,» Ghost Ship explained. «The difficulty will also increase drastically as you progress in a mission, contrary to Deep Rock Galactic where the difficulty is more consistent from mission start