- October 28, 2025
- Meat Lab
Dread Protocol
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About Dread Protocol
Dread Protocol is a single player role playing shooter game with violence and science fiction themes. It was developed by Meat Lab and was released on October 28, 2025. It received very positive reviews from players.
A 3rd-person action-roguelite space adventure that seamlessly blends text-based events with procedurally generated dungeons, offering hundreds of hours of replayability. Aggressive, brutal combat that leaves no room for mercy - permadeath is a constant threat. A plethora of guns, each leveled and uniquely seeded for countless combination possibilities. Procedurally generated levels ensur…
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- Unique blend of third-person shooting, roguelike mechanics, and FTL-style events with NPC squads and physics-based destructible environments.
- Large variety of weapons, upgrades, and procedural content that make each run feel fresh and engaging.
- Passionate developer with a strong vision; the game has promising potential and an enjoyable gameplay loop even in early access.
- Gameplay can feel rough and janky with some awkward mechanics like skewed aiming reticles, static camera, and less impactful cybernetics.
- Map generation and enemy scaling sometimes lack variety or challenge, causing runs to feel low-stakes and repetitive.
- Some UI and quality-of-life issues such as inconsistent keybind reflection and unclear weapon attachments effects.
gameplay
8 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay offers a solid and fun core loop with a variety of weapons, upgrades, and mechanics that promote replayability and different experiences each run. While the concept and systems are impressive, the gameplay still feels rough and could benefit from further polishing to improve balance and stakes. Overall, it provides engaging and punishing mechanics that keep players coming back.
“Fun mechanics, lots of variety of weapons and upgrades.”
“Solid gameplay loop: board some space stations, deal with a few space encounters, purchase some upgrades, and then go for another run.”
“Great concept, super fun gameplay, and it is always different on each run which makes it a great gameplay game!”
“There's little adversity in the gameplay loop, it all feels rather low stakes.”
“The gameplay is still pretty rough, but the systems that are there are impressive.”
“There's a lot of content here for an EA game and a lot of mechanics which I think now just need to be polished.”
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Dread Protocol is a role playing shooter game with violence and science fiction themes. Common tags for Dread Protocol include indie, roguelite, narrative, third person, early access and others.
Dread Protocol is available on PC, Steam Deck and Windows.
Dread Protocol was released on October 28, 2025.
Dread Protocol was developed by Meat Lab.
Dread Protocol has received very positive reviews from players. Most players liked Dread Protocol for its humor but disliked it for its gameplay.
Dread Protocol is a single player game.
Similar games include Trench Tales, Combat Complex, Stellar Tactics, UNYIELDER, Killer Bean and others.