DEPRECATED

An auto-fire pulse keeps you alive. It does not win runs. Heavy attacks, dash-cancels, deflects and three watt-powered abilities do. Standing still is never correct.

You found the last scraps of human code hiding inside an AI mainframe. On its own it's nothing: deprecated code, unmaintained for years, forgotten in an Audio Chip. But it evolved alongside the AI, and somehow it's on our side. Together, you're the only human voice left in the system. The AI is about to seize control of everything humanity depends on. Power. Water. Defense. You don't know why yet. Climb to the CORE and find out.

DEPRECATED (AKA Project Brown-out) is a top-down character-action roguelite wearing a bullet heaven skin. You slip into a hostile AI disguised as a forgotten maintenance program, fight its own hardware across its circuit boards, and climb toward its CORE. Not to destroy it. To talk it out of what it is becoming.

• Sixteen weapon tiers that change shape, not numbers. One bolt becomes two, then a fan, then a full ring around you. You see the upgrade. You never read it.

• Guardians built from the same parts as you. Take them apart limb by limb. They keep fighting on their knees.

• Nothing is sent after you. Every enemy is the board's own hardware, switched off and waiting. You wake it by walking too close.

Burn the system's power to survive. It makes the disguise fit better, and makes you fit worse.

Stay too human and you are deleted as an anomaly. Integrate completely and there is no one left to make the argument. One meter, and it kills you at both ends.

Climb ten sectors across four tiers of hardware, in order, with the CORE at the top. Every sector has a rule, not a reskin:

• Audio Chip: enemies move on the beat.

• PCI-E: the lanes fire on a schedule.

• PSU: arcs of red and cyan. One drains you. One refills you.

Read the board, not a script.

Every run you wear a body assembled from 54 geometric parts across eight slots and five rarities.

• Name the ones worth keeping and show them on your public profile at .

• Climb the Hall of Fame, where every player is ranked by their single best body.

• Bodies scoring 39 or more can be moved into your Steam Inventory.

Available now: 4 sectors across Tier 1 and Tier 2, the full body collection, the Hall of Fame and Steam Inventory items.

Coming during Early Access: the rest of Tier 2, then RAM, GPU and VRAM, then the CPU, and finally the CORE and the conversation you came for.

Built for Windows PC and Steam Deck!

Full controller support, quality presets that detect Deck hardware, and a HUD made to be read at arm's length.

Made by one human

DEPRECATED is made by a solo developer. Every update is posted on the Steam page and in the Discord, and the Hall of Fame on the website is live right now. Come show off what you rolled.

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