Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

Hold the line together

Rotten Rounds is a third-person co-op roguelite shooter for 1 to 4 players. Pick a class, drop into a city that fell overnight, and fight wave after wave of zombies. Every wave is bigger than the last. After each one you choose a new upgrade, and every tenth wave a boss comes for you. When the team falls the run is over, and the next one starts with everything you unlocked.

Four classes, each with a job

• Assault deals the damage. Kills feed its abilities, and War Cry lifts the whole team’s guns.

• Tank takes the hits. It shrugs off damage, rallies the team and can slam a crowd back with Shield Bash.

• Medic keeps everyone standing with a healing aura, a Healing Zone and the fastest revives.

• Engineer brings the gear: a turret, supply drops, mines and a field of frost.

Every class has a passive and two abilities, and each of them has an alternative to unlock, so two Medics need not play alike.

Build a different run every time

• Choose one of three upgrade cards after every wave: burn, frost, shock and toxic rounds, fire and frost auras, lightning storms, thicker armor, faster hands, and dozens more.

• Spend what you earn at the vendors on a shotgun, an SMG or a sniper rifle, on ammo and on gun upgrades.

• Open new parts of the city as the waves grow.

• Two bosses, the Boneclaw and the Bloater, each with its own attacks, fought in a sealed arena. You never know which one is coming.

Level up between runs

• Each class levels from 1 to 20. Its class tree shows the whole path: alternative abilities, new starting guns, and a choice between two perks at levels 4, 7 and 9.

• Earn titles, chase your records, and finish each class’s mastery challenge.

• Four difficulty tiers: Normal, Hard, Brutal and Nightmare. Each adds a rule and pays more XP.

Made for co-op

• Online co-op for up to four with Steam invites, or play solo.

• Pings, quick messages, text chat and voice chat, so strangers can work as a team.

• Revive a downed teammate before they bleed out. If you are too late, they are back next wave.

• Full controller support, and 12 languages.

Try the free demo

The demo is the opening of the game: ten waves and the boss at the end of them, solo or with friends.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Rotten Rounds contains frequent depictions of violence against zombie enemies, including shooting, explosions, and combat. Players will encounter blood effects and gore when eliminating zombie hordes. There is no sexual content,nudity, drug use, or self-harm depicted in the game.