First-person horde-survivors shooter

Scourge Survivors

Drop into the breach. Get swarmed. Burn your way deeper until it's over.

You are a lone Pyre operator dropped into a breach with one job: survive the Scourge. The horde never stops growing, so neither can you. Auto-scaling weapons, XP, and level-up drafts meet DOOM-fast gunfeel and gore.

PlayableThe Pyre

Play on deadrot.com Source

Flagship proof for scoped slicing, runtime assets, HUD polish, and E2E playability.

Core loop

What the build delivers.

Survive, then go deeper

Drop in, get swarmed, grind the Scourge, level up, draft upgrades, and push room to room until you're overrun.

The loop IS the game

No side-mode filler. The Vampire-Survivors core — orbit, bolt, nova — wears DOOM's skin and never lets up.

Breach-arena maps

Every chamber of the breach is its own arena of rooms and levels, with the deepest reaches of Perdition waiting below.

Playable operators

Pick your way into the breach.

Balanced Purger

Ranger

The professional zealot you learn the breach with.

Medium armor
Rifle-first silhouette
Average mobility, health, and damage

Heavy Purger

Bulwark

A walking furnace that stands in the breach longer than anyone should.

Wide, unmistakable silhouette
Heavy cannon or rotary shotgun
Slowest but most durable Pyre avatar

Scout Purger

Vector

Stays alive by never standing still.

Slim silhouette
Compact SMG or carbine
Sensor fins, grapnel, or breach-marker gear

Support Purger

Patch

Cauterizes damage faster than the breach can finish you.

Medium-light armor
Injector tubes, heat-seal tools, and support rig
Supportive without losing combat posture

Known threats

What the breach sends at you.

swarm

Swarm Ripper

It dies in one hit. There are forty more behind it.

Rushes the closest target on sight, attacking with blade-like forearms.
Dies fast but builds relentless pressure through sheer mass.
Hunched-forward silhouette with clear claws reads instantly in a crowd.

swarm

Swarm Spitter

It won't come to you. It'll just make standing still fatal.

Keeps its distance, firing toxic projectiles to flush you out of cover.
Supports melee swarms by forcing constant repositioning.
Thinner than a Ripper; the firing organ is the obvious tell.

breach-boss

Breach-Boss

Not a bigger soldier. A monster grown around a wound in the world.

Holds a major breach or region as the encounter centerpiece.
Combines melee pressure with ranged barrages.
Shields around its core and enrages when wounded.

Production assets

Shipped pixels, not concept art.

19 assets in the catalog

Scourge Survivors cover pixel art asset — Scourge Survivors covercover

Breach-Boss pixel art asset — Breach-Bossentity-variant

Graft-Breacher pixel art asset — Graft-Breacherentity-variant

Bulwark pixel art asset — Bulwarkentity-variant

Patch pixel art asset — Patchentity-variant

Ranger pixel art asset — Rangerentity-variant

Vector pixel art asset — Vectorentity-variant

Rot-Engine pixel art asset — Rot-Engineentity-variant

Render pixel art asset — Renderentity-variant

Swarm Spitter pixel art asset — Swarm Spitterentity-variant

Swarm Ripper pixel art asset — Swarm Ripperentity-variant

Boss pixel art asset — Bossruntime-sprite

Enemy Flying pixel art asset — Enemy Flyingruntime-sprite

Enemy Melee pixel art asset — Enemy Meleeruntime-sprite

Enemy Ranged pixel art asset — Enemy Rangedruntime-sprite

Player Heavy pixel art asset — Player Heavyruntime-sprite

Player Medic pixel art asset — Player Medicruntime-sprite

Player Ranger pixel art asset — Player Rangerruntime-sprite

Player Scout pixel art asset — Player Scoutruntime-sprite

Roadmap

The board is public.

Every slice of this build is tracked on the open project board. The counts below come straight from it — no marketing math.

Open board Readiness issue

57Todo

0In Progress

1Done

TodoAdd bonus and blade sprites
TodoRe-extract enemy sprites
TodoMake boss visually distinct
TodoShow weapon upgrade visuals
TodoFinish two-weapon bonus

Build log

Watch the build.

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Fight for The Pyre.

The only cure is fire. Get close enough to use it.

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