Deep Rock Galactic is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by Danish studio Ghost Ship Games and published by Coffee Stain Publishing. Deep Rock Galactic was fully released on May 13, 2020 for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One after spending two years in early access. The game was released on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 in January 2022, and is currently available to PlayStation Plus subscribers at no additional cost until the end of the month.
Gameplay
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player cooperative first-person shooter video game in which players work together while exploring destructible procedurally generated cave systems. The game focuses on PvE combat, meaning there is no benefit to killing other players.
Players take on the roles of four space dwarves assigned to various missions, which include many objectives such as mining specific minerals, stealing alien eggs, eliminating targets, or retrieving lost equipment. These are usually the main objective, required to complete the mission. It is also possible to complete a secondary objective (usually collecting other materials or items) to receive extra credits (which are used to improve the player's weapons and abilities of the classes) and experience points (which increase a player's level).
The game takes place underground on Hoxxes IV, a dangerous planet full of minerals, biomes, and bugs. Missions take place in large caverns and tunnels, with varying terrain generation, objectives and enemies depending on the biome and mission type. Players fight insect-like aliens as they attempt to complete the mission objectives and collect materials for crafting.
