Deep Rock Galactic devs unveil season six, new Rogue Core release date
Season six of Deep Rock Galactic will take players to a tomb biome to loot valuable amber and explore massive bones, while the roguelike spin-off is delayed to Q2 2026.
In the wake of the Left 4 Dead games, we’ve seen a whole genre of co-op horde shooters spring up. Of all the franchises to take inspiration from the classic zombie titles, few have been as innovative or interesting as Deep Rock Galactic. Deep Rock Galactic stars a crew of hardy dwarves mining their way through alien products, claiming riches, and escaping an endless swarm of bugs.
On Thursday, Ghost Ship Publishing shared news about the franchise, including unveiling Deep Rock Galactic’s sixth season and the release window for spin-off Rogue Core. Combined with the success of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor, it’s a very good time to be a dwarf.
Season six of Deep Rock Galactic will be developed in cooperation with Danish studio Invisible Walls. The update is dubbed Relics of Hoxxes, and it introduces a new biome called the Ossuary Depths. As you may have guessed, the dwarves are digging into the ancient past, finding the enormous bones of long-extinct creatures and uncovering relics from the past. These tombs are full of enemies called the Ossirians, which includes creatures like the swarming scavenger Scrab and the larger, meaner Pit Jaw. A new mission type, Heavy Extraction, will task players with unearthing and extracting delicate pieces of amber while Bone Collectors attack.
The contribution of Invisible Walls gives the core team at Ghost Ship Games time to focus on the franchise’s second spin off, Rogue Core. Rogue Core is a co-op roguelike that puts the players in the role of Reclaimers, elite security agents that scavenge supplies as they take on deadly missions beneath the surface. The roguelike will enter early access in Q2 2026, a delay from the original window of 2025. I'm very interested to see how it turns out, especially after the success of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is the first spin-off of the core game, and it is a top-down Survivors-like where the player controls one of the four classes from the base game, moving around the map while a powerful quartet of sci-fi weapons auto-fire away. The player collects experience, levels up, and ends up facing off against endless waves of bugs and beasts. The game originally released on early access in Feb. 2024, but after seeing the title’s success on the Steam Deck, the game was released on mobile in September.