It’s nearly time to celebrate another year in orbit!

Deep Rock Galactic turns seven years old this month. It’s been a heck of a ride so far – we couldn’t be more proud of the millions of tons of minerals extracted from Hoxxes and the hard-working dwarves that make it happen.

To recognize your invaluable efforts, we’re throwing a party! The ‘Seven Years in Orbit’ Celebration is going live in-game next week, on Thursday, February 27th at 13:00 CET. It’ll run for two weeks, after which all mining operations are expected to resume their usual tempo.

Here’s a preview of this year’s festivities.

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First up: There’s a new DLC armor set coming to town.

The Skullcrusher set brings you the ancestral armor of the Skullcrusher clan. They may be best known for brewing ale, but they bear the name for good reason. It’s said this ancestral armor still echoes with the call of the war horn – and yearns to be worn into battle once more.

You can find more details and wishlist this DLC below:

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/app/3481460/Deep_Rock_Galactic__Skullcrusher_Pack/


There’s no better way to celebrate all your hard work than more hard work! That’s what the latest DRG Employee Engagement Manual says, anyway. So to make this a proper party, we’re introducing the Party Hat - Year Seven headgear. This is a rare case of a time-limited hat – so if you don’t earn it by completing the associated Assignment, the opportunity disappears forever once this event ends. Get to it, miners!

Like all proper events, this one comes with a Double Performance Pass Bonus! While you’re down in the mines, keep an eye on your Terrain Scanner to find a hidden Year 7 Anniversary Trophy buried in the dirt. Dig it out, deposit it, and the rewarding nature of this experience will result in you coming home with double XP earned from the mission.


A few weeks ago when we published last year’s workforce statistics, Management was very pleased to note that there was an overall decline in employees passing out on the job due to alcohol consumption.

Confident that the DRG workforce has learned its lesson about the detrimental effects of alcohol, Management has agreed to provide free beer at the Abyss Bar during these celebrations. You’ll be able to drink Oily Oaf Brew, Glyphid Slammer and Leaf Lover’s Special to your heart’s content! Cheers, miners.


As with all anniversary celebrations, we’ll be dressing up the Space Rig like a five-star hotel! The gilded marble dance floor returns, along with tinsel and confetti, balloons, and precious chandeliers.

Management expresses their sincere hope that these elegant decorations inspire you to work even harder in the coming year.

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Every year, we also mark DRG’s birthday with a special livestream from the GSG crew. And you guessed it – we’re doing it again! We hope you’ll join us right after the event launches on February 27th at 14:00 CET for a cozy livestream from us to you.

Some years are bigger than others – and to manage expectations, we’re not gonna be revealing anything groundbreaking here. But we will have some special guests, and we’ll going live to reminisce on the years that have gone by, the path ahead, and of course to answer questions from you lovely folk.

So again, that’s Thursday, February 27th at 14:00 CET for the dev stream. Hope you can join us!

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

If you’re reading this, we’re in a brave new era of beverages. The official DRG Abyss Bar mug Kickstarter is now live and open for all!

After repeated requests from Deep Rock Galactic employees, Management has finally approved some surplus Abyss Bar mugs for private sale. Now’s your chance to bring this iconic DRG drinkware into your own home -- or into the mines.

These mugs are produced by Scorched Steel Industry as an official collaboration with Ghost Ship Games. Created by their small team of industrial designers, these mugs are meant to be as strong as a dwarf’s work ethic, able to withstand a Deep Dive as well as a trip through the dishwasher.

Here’s what these mugs bring to the table:

• 500 mL (16.9 fl oz) capacity
  
• Suitable for hot or cold beverages
  
• Dishwasher and microwave safe
  
• Food-grade PA6 plastic
  
• Impact-resistant construction (ideal for self-defense)

Scorched Steel has a few stretch goals planned for this project, too – so the more folks that support it, the more goodies we all get! You can expect additional color variants of the mug and some sweet accessories, like a solid metal Drop Pod bottle opener.


That’s all for now, miners.
Remember to hydrate regularly during your shifts! The mines are no place for a dehydrated dwarf.

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew (and Scorched Steel)

Great news for hobby statisticians: We’ve got our annual “Year in Review” statistics ready! Sorry it’s a bit late this year, someone spilled juice on the office calculator so we had to do it all by hand.

Management is very pleased with some critical figures: Overall employee deaths have decreased this year, for example. Fall damage is still the leading killer among DRG employees, but this year recorded cases dropped to an acceptable 32 million. Nice work!

As usual, any figures relating to workplace safety violations and employee complaints have been omitted, as Management deemed these numbers to be statistically insignificant.

Please enjoy the full statistics below, and know that the Deep Rock Galactic Corporation appreciates your contributions to this record year.

Rock and Stone!

With Love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

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The Lunar Festival 2025 is here! You can boot up Deep Rock Galactic right this absolute minute and dig into it. We’ve got the full event details in the preview post, but in a nutshell, here’s what’s coming:

• Brand new snake hats
  
• Brand new old hats
  
• Double XP for those who dare
  
• Firecrackers and festivities aboard the Space Rig

Slither on in and snake it up! This year’s Lunar Festival runs until Thursday, February 13th at 13:00 CET.

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Oh, and in other news: the Closed Alpha playtest for GUNTOUCHABLES is live now! It’s a co-op doomsday shooter coming out via Ghost Ship Publishing.

If you’d like to give that a go, you can learn more right here:
https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/news/app/2543510/view/501689772772687893?l=english

Sending an enormous hug to all of you!

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

According to the lunar calendar, a new year is nearly upon us! If you ask Management, though, you should quit worrying about what the moon is doing, and focus on your own work in the mines.

However, as tradition dictates, it’s nearly time for another Lunar Festival in Deep Rock Galactic! We’re just about ready to get the Year of the Snake off to a slithering start.

This year’s Lunar Festival goes live on Thursday, January 30th at 13:00 CET, and it’ll run until February 13th.

Let’s take a look at what’s in store:

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To motivate our workforce during these celebrations, Management has seen fit to commission yet another piece of festive headgear. Starting next week, all employees will have the opportunity to earn The Serpentine Special – simply complete the Lunar Festival 2025 assignment, and you’ll unlock this slithery specimen for all classes.


During an asbestos recycling operation on one of our orbital storage facilities, we stumbled across an old cache of hats from previous Lunar Festival events. While interplanetary hazmat protocols dictate we incinerate these hats, Management has generously decided to offer them up to our employees instead!

To collect all these old hats in one fell swoop, just complete the Last Year's Blessings assignment and we’ll add them all to your inventory. And if you notice any chest pains while wearing these hats, keep it to yourself.


It started as a route transport job for Longbeard Freight. But a shipment of rare venomous snakes got loose from the cargo hold and attacked the pilot, tragically causing the vessel to crash on Hoxxes with a loss of all crew and passengers.

Even more tragic, though, is that the doomed freighter was also carrying a load of antique Golden Serpent statues that Management had ordered. Now these statues are scattered through the caves of Hoxxes – and to make matters worse, our insurance policy doesn’t cover snake-based accidents.

We need your help. Dig up and deposit a Golden Serpent statue during your mission, and Management will reward your whole team with a Double Performance Point Bonus. Everyone wins.


We’ve got the Space Rig looking dazzling with festive banners, lovely paper lanterns, and a fresh shipment of Space Persimmons. And much to the chagrin of Management, complementary firecrackers will make a return during the Festival.

Management initially decided to stop with the firecrackers due to employees’ reckless conduct last year. However, a large shipment of mining explosives turned out to be too unstable to use in subsurface operations, so we decided to turn lemons into lemonade. Try not to use them near the windows.

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Oh, on another note – GUNTOUCHABLES, which is coming out via Ghost Ship Publishing, is holding a Closed Alpha Playtest next week. If you’re interested, we’d like to invite you to sign up! You can do so on their Steam store page.

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/news/app/2543510/view/501689139151765525?l=english

That’s all for now! Let us know in the comments if you think Steeve would wear one pair of jeans with 8 legs, or four pairs of regular jeans.

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

The headline says it all: the Yuletide seasonal event is now live in Deep Rock Galactic! Grab them pickaxes and hop down in the mines to show those Glyphids the true meaning of Yuletide.

You can read all the event details in the preview post – but in a nutshell, Yuletide is all about:

• Cool hats
  
• Shooting elves
  
• Working hard

We’re running this event until January 7th at 13:00 CET, so you’ve got a nice bit of time to collect all your Yuletide goodies.

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The Ghost Ship gang is going AFK for the holidays, so we'd just like to wish everyone a very happy Yuletide season. Hope you get lots of time to share with friends and family, give or get some cool gifts, maybe eat a tasty treat or two. Don't forget to make time to play DRG, too.

Thanks for yet another fun year together in the mines -- we'll see you in 2025. All the best until then.

Rock and Stone to the bone!

With much cozy holiday love,
- The Ghost Ship Crew

Althought the patch was last week, naughty elf's made this post disappear, it is now here! This patch adds a few seasonal events, fixes a number of bugs and we updated the DRG universe tab to also include the Merch Store and Mug Kickstarter.

With Love,
The Ghost Ship Crew

- Fixed Scout Grappling Hook Occasionally Fails to Pull the Scout ( https://app.betahub.io/projects/pr-5632787018/issues/13 )
- Fixed Crawlers using too many particles when walking
- Fixed that terrain could block the players from connecting nodes to the power station in Industrial Sabotage
- Fixed selecting the incorrect previously equipped item when pipeline building
- Fixed Gunner shield frequently fails to provide buffs to players ( https://app.betahub.io/projects/pr-5632787018/issues/57 )
- Fixed a bunch of typo’s
- Fixed Crash when approaching Core Stone retrieval pod, with some objects ( https://app.betahub.io/projects/pr-5632787018/issues/134 )

The holidays are nearly here!

We mean that in a figurative sense, of course. Management would like to clarify that the term "holiday" should not be in any way associated with paid time off. Here at Deep Rock Galactic, we like to think of holidays as a sort of special flavor that motivates our employees to work even harder. And it's almost time for the year's coziest, most motivating holiday: Yuletide!

The Yuletide 2024 seasonal event starts on Thursday, December 19th at 13:00 CET. It'll run until January 7th 2025, which is a little longer than standard seasonal events, so you’ve got some extra time to gather up all your Yuletide goodies.

Let’s give the present a little shake and guess what’s inside.

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It’s been a terrific year for the company, so we’ve decided to give each and every employee your own special Yuletide gift. At long last, we’ve invested in better equipment! We’ve requisitioned some advanced, highly functional safety gear for all of you: the Gift Wrapped hat!

This sturdy cardboard helmet should protect you from the consequences of at least one workplace accident. That’s a huge improvement in the company safety record, statistically speaking.

Of course, a gift is best when you can appreciate its worth. That’s why you’ve got to work for it! You can unlock the Gift Wrapped helmet via the Yearly Performance Bonus assignment, which will also grant you extra Performance Points, crafting resources, credits and a couple infused Matrix Cores.
Don’t say we never did anything for you!


It seems that we’re dealing with another seasonal infestation of Yuletide Elves. If left to run wild through the caves of Hoxxes, they’re liable to get caught and ground up in our mining equipment, and that’d have an unacceptable consequence for our productivity. To prevent that, we’re tasking you with a simple solution: Bag ‘em and tag ‘em.

Shoot the Elves on sight, deposit the body in the M.U.L.E., and Management will grant you (and your team) a Double Mission Performance Point Bonus.


Just like always, you’ll be able to snag the whole run of old Yuletide hats, all in one fell swoop. They’re a bit dusty, but if you’re willing to sweat for ‘em, they’re yours.

Complete the Fashion of Yuletide Past assignment to unlock all the Yuletide cosmetics from past years’ celebrations.

But wait, there’s more! Complete the Yuletide Elf Hunt assignment, and you’ll unlock the following:

• Pickaxe set: ‘Chillaxe’
  
• Bosco framework: ‘Yuletide Special’
  
• Elf suit armor + headwear*

This assignment will only appear for you if you haven’t already completed it and collected the rewards a previous year.

*Last year, Management documented a significant number of friendly fire incidents connected to wearing this elf costume. We reiterate once again that all injuries sustained while wearing this outfit are the employee’s individual responsibility.

To complete the Yuletide experience, Management has once again decorated the Space Rig for the holidays. Your break time is still unpaid, but now it’s much more festive! You can look forward to holiday garlands, delicate ornaments, cheery Yuletide music, colorful lights, and all the rest! We plugged the holiday lights into the same outlet we use for the life support systems in the Med Bay, so don’t go fiddling with it.

Management would like to underline that these decorations are provided on the assumption that all employees will respect the No Snowball Throwing policy while aboard the Space Rig. You’re here to work, not to feel Yuletide joy.

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Yuletide 2024 begins on Thursday, December 19th at 13:00 CET and it’ll run until Tuesday, January 7th at 13:00 CET.

Bundle up, Miners!
With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew

Broadcast starts at the 6:03 timestamp
In case you missed our big ‘On the Horizon’ dev livestream last Thursday, we’ve got a whole lot of news to share! You can watch the whole thing right up above, but we’ve also got the highlights down below.


If you’ve just got two minutes, here’s what you should know:

• Deep Rock Galactic merch is finally here! We teamed up with Heroic Replicas to open the official DRG merch webshop[www.deeprockshop.com] – and, in collaboration with Scorched Steel Industry, we’ll soon be releasing official Abyss Bar beer mugs via Kickstarter.
  
• The first Rogue Core teaser trailer is out. We also went into Unreal Engine to showcase some of the enemies and weapons, and discussed a lot of details about the state of gameplay. Click here to watch the teaser, or scroll down for the full segment and more details.
  
• Rogue Core's Closed Alpha is slated for Q2 2025, and an Early Access release at the end of 2025. For more updates on the game’s development (and potential Closed Alpha access), follow Rogue Core on Steam.
  
• Deep Rock Galactic Season 06 will have to wait until Rogue Core is out in Early Access. We’re tackling one big project at a time, so we’re holding off on planning or developing anything to do with Season 06 while we’re going full steam ahead on Rogue Core.
  
• Ghost Ship Publishing has announced a new title: Guntouchables. Developed by the Danish studio GameSwing, we’re psyched to help bring another fun co-op shooter into the world. See the reveal trailer here.

Below, we've got an updated roadmap (covering all of Ghost Ship Games and Publishing) for you. Then we'll go through the broadcast segment by segment, to sum up the most important bits.

EDIT [Nov. 29] - Apparently some of the embedded video links were busted. We don't know why (suspected Rival interference?) but it should be fixed now

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After our big move in August, we’ve now gotten (mostly) settled in the new digs! Here’s Aaron to give you an engaging and educational six-minute tour of our new workspace.

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Finally, the days of “DRG has no merch” are over. Thanks to our friend Dave at Heroic Replicas, the official Deep Rock Galactic merch webshop is live!

You can check out the webshop[www.deeprockshop.com] right this red-hot minute. It’s got loads of cool stuff, such as:

• T-shirts for all four classes (duh, gotta have t-shirts)
  
• Ceramic Loot Bug piggy banks (buggy banks?)
  
• A dedicated light-up RGB mechanical keyboard that’s literally just the ‘V’ button so you can Rock and Stone more easily

And much more!

Pro tip: Use coupon code 'COUPONCODE' for a free sticker pack on any orders over $40Everything listed here is up for pre-order now, shipping in early 2025. And it’s worth highlighting that this selection is only Phase One of the merch project – we’ll have more cool releases landing in the shop in the coming months. Stay tuned!

http://www.deeprockshop.com

But that’s not all! Through a collaboration with Scorched Steel Industry, we’re happy to announce that your most asked-after merch item is finally a reality. Soon, your beverage of choice will find a spectacular new home in the official Abyss Bar beer mugs.

Scorched Steel is funding this project via Kickstarter, and the launch date for their campaign is just around the corner. If you’d like to back it and grab one (or a few) of these mugs for yourself, click here to be notified when the Kickstarter campaign goes live.

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The first glimpses of Rogue Core are here! If you haven’t already seen it, check out the new Pre-Alpha Teaser Trailer above, or by clicking right here.

We spent the majority of On the Horizon discussing all sorts of Rogue Core details, from gameplay to enemy design to release timeline. We did a writeup of all of that, but it was so big that it became its own article – so if you’re keen for more Rogue Core, you can read all about it right here.

Right now, we’re aiming for a Rogue Core Closed Alpha in Q2 2025, and an Early Access release at the end of the year (Q4 2025).

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/app/2605790/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Rogue_Core/

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As always, we touched base with all the developers releasing games via Ghost Ship Publishing to hear where they’re at. If you’d like more details on each title, the Ghost Ship Publishing segment starts at the 18:12 timestamp. Otherwise, here are three bullet points from each:

• Say hello to the newest title to get picked up by Ghost Ship Publishing! In this co-op roguelike arcade shooter, four doomsday preppers blast their way through the disaster they’ve all been waiting for.
  
• You can watch the Guntouchables release trailer here. GameSwing, the developers, describe the game as “Nuclear Throne meets Left 4 Dead.” Teamwork, fast feet and firepower reign supreme.
  
• Guntouchables will be releasing to Early Access on Steam in Q1 2025.

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/app/2543510/GUNTOUCHABLES/

• The SpellRogue team has been busy putting out five big updates in the 10 months since they released to Early Access. Loads more spells, QoL tweaks, enemies and difficulty modifiers have been added since launch.
  
• Next major milestone for SpellRogue is adding a fourth playable character: the Wind Wizard. They’re still refining and balancing how that new dice caster will play.
  
• For now, the team’s plan is to release SpellRogue 1.0 around March 2025.

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/app/1990110/SpellRogue/

• This historically-accurate game about medieval dinosaur wars is currently experimenting with how they’ll balance gameplay between action and strategy. The team calls the genre “hack ‘n strat.”
  
• Ability to ride dinosaurs confirmed. Other recent focuses include advanced base building and resource management, and an expanded selection of dinosaurs.
  
• Dinolords is aiming to make their Early Access launch on Steam in Q3 2025.

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/app/2587620/Dinolords/

• When we called them up during the stream, the Funday Team was in London to represent DRG: Survivor at the Golden Joystick Awards. They didn’t end up taking home the W, but we’re proud of them all the same. <3
  
• We did a little recap of the recent Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor - Ultimate Challenge Invitationals broadcast, the most important sporting event in history.
  
• Funday Games is planning Update 5 for DRG: Survivor somewhere in Q1 2025. They’ve said their 1.0 release is still TBA.

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/app/2321470/Deep_Rock_Galactic_Survivor/

• It had been a while since we’d heard from Bitfire – and they came with a brand new trailer to show off! You can watch the new teaser trailer here.
  
• The team’s been focused recently on building out a unique arsenal for each of the game’s four character classes, and dialing in procedural generation for the levels. Take a look at the gnarly fire effects for the flamethrower in the trailer.
  
• DarkSwarm’s Early Access release date is still TBA.

https://ad.gamersky.info/@store.steampowered.com/app/2303200/DarkSwarm/

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And that's the show! Hope you saw something you liked in there.
As always, sending our best to all of you, and a big ol' Rock and Stone.

With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew