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Dread Protocol

84% positive of 25 Steam reviews

Released: 2025
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam

Made by Meat Lab.

About the game

Dread Protocol is a 3rd-person roguelite blending FTL-style events and navigation with brutal, punishing combat. Explore procedurally generated space stations, carve your path through destructible walls, and dismantle the Federation one station at a time.

Tagged by players

Looter Shooter
Third-Person Shooter
Perma Death
Narrative
Destruction
Action Roguelike
Dungeon Crawler
Procedural Generation
Roguelite
Sci-fi
Stylized
Space

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Positive

What players say

Recommended
A lot of content for early access, gunplay is fun and the added first person mode is a nice feature Can't wait to see what v1.0 looks like
9.2 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Oct 3rd update : Flipping review to a Positive 60/40 The reason is simple, the dev rushed a hotfix after taking the time to reach out and quickly adress the issues I posted in my negative review. This put Dread Protocol in a much better place than it was just a few days ago and if the dev continues it should shape up nicely. Its a simple RnG game loop where we board enemy stations and murder-hobbo all the enemies…
13 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Ok so here is my one critique so far of this game. It's fun. It's a little bit jank. but its fun for sure. My only problem is the dark outlines of the enemies and the environment. When the enemies are farther away from you, those thick outlines begin to fade into the background and it makes it hard to tell what is an enemy and what is a wall panel. I might be getting a little bit older sure, but this is more on the…
10 min played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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