Just a quick bulletin from the board game front: MOOD Publishing is releasing a new set of expansions to Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game!


New depths, new horrors, and new rivals are coming to the tabletop edition, which is getting three new expansion packs this summer. You can expect new gameplay depth and replayability, plus a whole new range of miniatures – including more original creatures unique to the tabletop universe.

Here are the three new expansions in a nutshell:

• Rival Incursion: The Rivals have made their way to the tabletop. Face off against Patrol Bots and Burst Turrets as you fight the Rival scourge, and take on the dreaded Caretaker in a board game boss fight.
  
• Horrors of Hoxxes: Four familiar DRG biomes make their way to the board game, bringing their own environmental hazards and unfriendly wildlife – including the Dreadnought Arbalest and Lacerator twins.
  
• The Shockwyrm: This mini expansion introduces an original creature, a formidable burrowing worm that attacks at close range with stunning electrical jabs. Stay on your guard, and don’t leave the insulated gloves at home.

MOOD's Kickstarter for this project has just gone live today. If you’re interested, you can check out (and back) the project here.

That’s all for now -- we’ll be back in a few weeks to kick off the 2025 Space Beach Party. Stay tuned. Rock and Stone!

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

We have fixed some issues with the modding update, biggest of which was an issue, where the mod list would not populate with your mods if a mod status was pending

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed that your sorting settings for viewing mods where not saved

- Renamed mod browser buttons for clarity

- Fixed an error when populating the mod list, which would result in an empty list if a mod was pending

- Removed keyboard navigation from mod browser as it broke searching

We have made some changes to how modding behaves in DRG, as well as updating the Mod.io API. We have moved Modding from the menu in the Spacerig to the start of the game on the info screen. The idea behind this was to reduce potential errors that could happen because of hot loading mods. We have kept the modding menu in the Spacerig, but as view-only so players can see what mods they have active, but no changes can be made on this menu except loading back to the info screen.

Since the Mod.io API has been updated, we now also have an ingame mod browser, as well as the option to use your preferred browser. The API update should also have several years of fixes for the plugin.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Updated modding behaviour

- Added missing hit reactions on enemies

- Fixed Glyphid forelegs not being blown off when killed by explosions

- Increased visibility of Unknown Horror when in Medium and Low Effect Quality.

- Added content for upcoming events

- Updated game credits with latest translators

It’s been quiet on the Deep Rock front lately. As you might know, our development team has been fully focused on Rogue Core (read the latest dev diary blog post here).

But we haven’t forgotten you. Our marketing team has joined forces with Heroic Replica to fulfill one of our most frequent fan requests: loot bug plushies.

Heroic Replicas, the official purveyor of Deep Rock Galactic merch, is gearing up to bring you a second batch of brand-new DRG goodies. A lovable lootbug and Steeve plushies are the headliners, but there’s plenty of other gold nuggets coming too!

This new merch wave also includes:

• A plushie “Molly” M.U.L.E. (doubles as a four-can cooler)
  
• Fuzzy dangling danger dice
  
• Baseball caps and knit beanies
  
• Foam stress balls (shaped as an Alien Egg, Gunk Seed, Barrel, and Loot Bug)

But wait, there’s more! Mark and Aaron are here to give you the goods:



All these new merch items will be available for pre-order in the Deep Rock Shop in August. But if you’re interested, you can already snag what you want at a delectable extra discount via the Heroic Replicas Kickstarter, which just launched today.

Down below is a full run-through of the new merch in handy image format -- we hope something strikes your fancy. Wishing all of you a lovely summer, and until next time!

With Love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

The eggiest time of year is upon us! The Great Egg Hunt seasonal event is now live in Deep Rock Galactic. It’ll run for the usual two weeks, from today until Thursday, April 24th at 13:00 CEST.

You can check out the full event details in the preview post.
But real quick, here’s what’s up:

• Snag the brand-new seasonal hat (the Winged Buckaroo)
  
• Collect all previous Egg Hunt headgear, in case you missed ‘em
  
• Shoot the robot rabbits and get Double XP
  
• Enjoy the delightful ambiance aboard the Space Rig

Again, it’s open season until April 24th! Go get your eggs.

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Quick reminder: Tonight we're revealing a new Rogue Core trailer, and we're making a special announcement along with it. If you want to tune in and catch it live, the whole thing's kicking off on Twitch and Youtube at 09:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT / 18:00 CEST.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2605790/view/534345486851637807?l=english

Hope to see you there! Otherwise, enjoy the egg hunt, and have a lovely day.

With eggs,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

The eggs are back. There are dozens of them. Hundreds, even.

At a time when the world is more focused on eggs than ever before, we thought it would be apt to bring back the ultimate in egg-centric celebrations: The Great Egg Hunt.
That’s right, eggheads. The Great Egg Hunt is coming back to Deep Rock Galactic on Thursday, April 10th, and it’s bringing a veritable eggload of goodies and professional development opportunities along with it.

It’s time to count our eggs before they hatch. Here’s a preview of what’s coming – and if you’re interested, there’s some Rogue Core news down at the bottom.

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You can’t spell The Great Egg Hunt without “hats!”

Well you can, but it wouldn’t make a very good segue to talk about hats. Speaking of hats, we’ve got a new one for you. The college kids down in R&D have spent the past year pushing the envelope of noggin-covering technology, and their proud result is the Winged Buckaroo.

Want it? You’ll have to work for it. We’re a mining company, not a hat charity. You can earn it via the Great Egg Hunt assignment in the Mission Terminal.





Celebrating The Great Egg Hunt with just a single hat would be like making an omelet with a single egg. Ridiculous! Only a child would be satisfied.

Fret not, miners. Management, in their boundless generosity, has approved the release of a cache of headwear from previous Egg Hunt celebrations. If you forgot to collect these earlier editions, now’s your chance! Complete the Last Year’s Spring Fashion assignment and you’ll get all of them forever.





Despite their track record, Management decided to once again entrust a load of Mechanical Spring Bunnies to the infamous Longbeard Freight Company. But to our great dismay and surprise, those buffoons have biffed the job once again! Another Longbeard vessel has been lost with all hands over Hoxxes, and its payload is now scattered throughout the caves.

These confounded rabbit toys are making a horrible racket, and it’s disrupting our Deep Scan activities. If you see one while down in the caves, shoot its lights out and deposit it in the M.U.L.E. to earn a Double Performance Pass Bonus for your whole team.




If you thought last year’s egg budget was excessive, you wouldn’t believe what this year’s seasonal decorations cost the company. Management has forked over a small fortune to deck out Space Rig 17 with lovely pastel lights, adorable bunny garlands, inflatable carrots and a bounty of decorative eggs. As always, the eggs are to be appreciated from a safe distance.

While the eggs have been unusually expensive this year, please don’t be concerned that these eggshorbitant eggspenditures are cutting into Company profits. Management has wisely found room in the annual budget by eliminating wasteful spending on laundry, cleaning and sterilization services in the Medical Bay.

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There’s been a couple things happening over at Rogue Core Ranch.

First, we’ve got a new Rogue Core trailer coming next week! We’re premiering it on April 10th at 18:00 CEST as part of the Triple-I initiative. You can tune in to watch the live reveal on Youtube and Twitch. More on all that here.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2605790/view/534345486851637807?l=english

And earlier this week, on April 1st of all days, we put out a goofy Rogue Core video. If you love to smile and laugh and have fun, you can watch it here:


But wait, there’s more! There’s also a new Below Decks behind-the-scenes article, which explores the design process behind the Reclaimer gauntlets you see in the video. Give it a read if you’ve got the time and interest.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2605790/view/534345939582715197?l=english

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That's it for now! See you all next week to offer you an egg in this trying time.
Once again, The Great Egg Hunt starts on April 10th at 13:00 CEST, and it'll run for two weeks.

Hope everybody's doing well -- Rock and Stone.

With eggs,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

Just coming with a quick bulletin from Ghost Ship Publishing: SpellRogue, one of our publishing titles (developed by Guidelight Games), will be leaving Early Access and launching into 1.0 on April 24th.

If you haven’t heard of SpellRogue, it’s a dice-based roguelike deckbuilder game where you roll dice (and manipulate and enchant them) to power up spells in turn-based combat. Think Dicey Dungeons meets Slay the Spire.


You can wishlist it (or buy it while it’s still in Early Access) right here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1990110/SpellRogue/

Cool! That’s all from the Publishing desk. Hope everybody’s doing well out there.

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

Small one today (well, technically yesterday) miners, we received the message that the Skullcrusher armor needed fixin’

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed some cloth material that would not use the correct paintjob when using the Skullcrusher framework

The Seven Years in Orbit seasonal event is now live in DRG! Put on your black-tie mining gear and join us on the Space Rig to celebrate another terrific year of operations.

You can get the full event details in the preview post, but here’s the quick run-down:

• Unlock an exclusive Year Seven Party Hat via the connected assignment
  
• Earn Double XP by collecting the hidden Year Seven Trophy down in the mines
  
• Responsibly enjoy the free beer on tap at the Abyss Bar
  
• Soak in the glamorous decorations aboard the Space Rig

AND, you can now unlock the new 'Arkham' paintjob via the Weapon Mastery system! We forgot to write about this in the preview post, but wham bam hey presto there you go. Enjoy!


The event runs until Thursday, March 13th at 13:00 CET. Don’t miss out!

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The wait is over! In connection with the anniversary, we're putting a new cosmetic DLC set on the market. Don the family armor of the Skullcrusher clan, and let chaos reign supreme in the caves.

You can wishlist or buy the DLC right here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3481460/Deep_Rock_Galactic__Skullcrusher_Pack/

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We’re doing our annual celebratory dev stream today, to mark DRG’s seventh birthday! It’s going to be a bit smaller than we initially planned, as we had some guest bail and the rest of us came down with the flu. But it’ll still be cozy. :)

Come join us at 14:00 CET today on Twitch and Youtube for a Space Rig house party, as the GSG crew shares some stories from the game’s seven years of development!

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That’s all for now. Hope everybody’s doing well, and happy seven years in orbit. <3

With Love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

While the hardworking devs at Ghost Ship Games have been hard at work on DRG: Rogue Core, some of us over in Publishing and Marketing have been helping other devs bring their amazing games to life and to Steam.

This time around, the awesome devs at Game Swing have a demo for Guntouchables out for all to try during the February 2025 version of Steam Next Fest.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2543510/GUNTOUCHABLES/

Check it out, we’ve been having a blast playing it. And, our very own Aaron has voiced all the characters in the game. Some of you might know him from our regular live streams.

To go along with the release of the demo, we are also making a series of videos providing new players with tips and tricks on how to survive the apocalypse - Brick Tips!

Check out the first video in the series here:



Thanks Miners, we hope you’ll give Guntouchables a try and a wishlist! We’ll be hanging out in the game’s server list and on their discord.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew