Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor: Everything You Should Know

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor rebuilds Deep Rock Galactic as a one-dwarf survivor-like where the guns fire automatically and your movement decides whether a swarm gets mined or you do.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor at a Glance

• Status: Released
• Release date: Sep 17, 2025
• Developer: Funday Games
• Publisher: Ghost Ship Publishing
• Genres: Action
• Steam platforms: Windows
• Modes: Single-player.
• Controls: Full controller support.

Storyline and Setting

The Deep Rock Galactic universe is recast as a one-dwarf assignment on Hoxxes rather than a narrative campaign. Management drops the miner into procedurally generated caves, issues objectives and expects extraction with as much loot as possible.

Gameplay and Core Systems

Each dive combines auto-shooting, kiting, mining tunnels, collecting minerals, completing objectives, and choosing upgrades under pressure. Four classes, weapon overclocks, artifacts, biome hazards, and permanent unlocks create a steady stream of build experiments across repeated runs.

Weapons fire automatically, so movement, kiting and mining routes determine survival. Players tunnel through terrain, gather minerals, complete objectives, choose upgrades and reach the Drop Pod before time expires. Classes, weapons, overclocks, artifacts, biome hazards and permanent unlocks create build variety over repeated dives. It is strictly single-player despite the parent game's co-op identity. Full controller support, adjustable difficulty and a huge achievement list support long-term replay.

Art, Audio, and Atmosphere

The familiar chunky silhouettes, bright mineral colors, and insect swarms of Deep Rock Galactic remain readable from a new top-down camera. Tunnels visibly reshape as the dwarf mines, so presentation communicates strategy as well as spectacle. Dense weapon effects escalate with a build, yet resource outlines, extraction markers, and strong audio cues help preserve the information needed to survive.

Campaign, Progression, and Replayability

A dive is a chain of timed stages ending in an extraction scramble and, if the build survives, a boss. Mining changes the geometry of every procedural cave, letting the dwarf carve an escape route or accidentally trap himself while weapons fire automatically. Experience upgrades apply during the run; resources, class ranks, weapon masteries, artifacts, and overclocks drive the longer progression. The finished game is single-player, so this is not four-player Deep Rock Galactic viewed from above.

Steam currently lists 300 achievements. Steam currently lists 3 add-on entries for this app.

Multiplayer, VR, and Controller Support

Modes: Single-player. Controls: Full controller support.

Release and Current Availability

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor was released on Sep 17, 2025 by Funday Games, with Ghost Ship Publishing publishing. Its current PC edition is listed on Steam for Windows.

Languages and Accessibility

Steam-listed language support: English , French, German, Spanish – Spain, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese – Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Indonesian, Spanish – Latin America
languages with full audio support

Steam-listed accessibility and presentation features: Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Adjustable Difficulty, Playable without Timed Input, Stereo Sound

PC System Requirements

Minimum

• OS: Win 10
• Processor: Intel i5-4590 or similar
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: Geforce GTX 1050 or similar
• Storage: 2 GB available space

Recommended

Who Should Play Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor?

It is ideal for players who enjoy Vampire Survivors-style runs but want more terrain interaction, class identity, and mining decisions.