DeadCore news & patch notes

Hey everyone! 

A quick news to let you know that we pushed localization further for DeadCore Redux: thanks to our friends at Lockit QA, the game will now be available in Simplified Chinese, Russian and Ukrainian! 

Back in 2014, DeadCore was supporting English, French (obviously ^^) and German but we took a look at where the majority of our players came from and decided it was time to let them enjoy the game in the most accessible way possible. 

You can already give it a try as we updated the demo accordingly and are eager to get feedback about it! 

As you may already know, DeadCore Redux will be released on January 15, 2026: there's still a lot of work to get there but we are really excited to see players race each other again in Speedrun mode and obliterate developers times on every single level : ) 

Cheers, 

Team 5 Bits Games.

Now it’s official!

It took us more time than expected but after a bit more than 1 year of hard work, DeadCore Redux will be released on 01/15/2026.

Thanks to our playtesters who gave us a lot of feedback, we’re really happy with this new and improved version that completely revamps the game look and feel in addition to adding more content.

If you want to give it a try, we’ve just uploaded a new demo that features the usual bug fixes and overall improvements but most importantly that brings back :

• Speedrun mode with online leaderboards! 

• Logs menu in an updated version

Feel free to join our Discord server to share your thoughts about it:

https://discord.gg/fpbBeqgu9u

Stay tuned for more news until the release!

Hey there,

To celebrate the start of this year 7DFPS, we put together a little surprise for you : )

While digging into some old and dusty hard drives, we found ancient builds of Deadlock, the original prototype of DeadCore made during the 2012 7DFPS!

Playing these builds, taking a look at old screenshots of different stages of development and old pictures of (way) younger versions of ourselves really brought back many fond memories of the numerous steps we took during this journey! And what a journey! It all started after we graduated from a master in video games where we all met: some of us were starting to work in the industry and were longing for an opportunity to make games together again.

The opportunity came up when the first 7DFPS was announced back in summer 2012: the goal was to make a first person game within 7 days and due to the limited time and other constraints the idea of a FPS-Platformer without any damage/combat system quickly came to our minds and we rushed during a week to make something we found really cool back in the days (well, it does feel a bit rough today…).

We kept pushing the prototype further, polishing it for months, adding more features and content until we reached a point where we thought we would actually have a (small) game in our hands that we could sell and would at the very least serve as a portfolio to land a job in the industry.

We did a small crowdfunding campaign to pay for a few Unity licenses and started showcasing our prototype during events and festivals, getting feedback from players and iterating on the level design to make it more accessible (and sometimes doubling the size of some platforms as initially it was insanely difficult!).

This has been a bumpy ride and yet full of many precious moments we will always remember like when we were invited by Unity to their booth at the 2014 GDC (watching the game’s trailer being displayed on a disco ball later on in a night club in San Francisco was really something ^^’).

Back to the initial topic, we’ve created a page on Itch.io:

https://5bitsgames.itch.io/deadlock-7dfps

There you’ll find:

• The original Deadlock 7DFPS prototype (~1 week of work)

• DeadCore alpha build (~1 year of work)

Be aware that these old builds come in the state they were more than 10 years ago and might be a bit buggy…

Anyway, we hope you will have fun digging these old builds that truly are testimonies of how DeadCore evolved through all these years and don’t hesitate to share your times/thoughts on them, it’s always cool for us to hear from you : )

And wishlist the remaster on Steam !!

Cheers!

Hey everyone,

Steam Next Fest is starting today and we wanted to let you know that DeadCore Redux will be there with an updated demo! Thanks to your feedback - big up to Plasmawario, Reherc Fox and neon-nn7lr for their detailed input! - we worked on a few quality of life improvements to make the demo even better.

It’s still work in progress and most of the following changes will probably evolve until the final version but here is a quick changelog of this new demo:

Features

• Tweaked Turrets colors when switching states

• Added shortcut (remappable - on hold) to restart a level

Menus / UI

• New title screen and overall menus structure / wording (ex.: “Story” -> “Cycle”)

• New (WiP) tutorial pop-ups videos at the end of Level01 to introduce Dash and Sparks

• Added audio + VFX to Rank screen

• New ranks wording based on game’s lore: Novice < Apprentice < Runner < Transmitter < Forerunner

• BugFix: fixed typos in Settings, Boosts, and Whispers

• BugFix: fixed controls mapping not saved + several small bugs

Audio

• Better audio mix

• Added an option to boost master volume

Like always, we are looking forward to hearing your feedback on these changes so don’t hesitate to stop by the Steam forums to let us know what you think about it.

Cheers,

Studio 5 Bits Game

• Early Steam Deck support (select “Steamdeck” in quality settings for 60fps)
• Settings menu 1st draft (more options to come like HDR screens support)

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• Your Desura user name (aka: your public nickname)
• Your Desura key of DeadCore