Sanity was never guaranteed here, and reality bends further with every step deeper into the Abyss. Cosmic horrors wait around every corner, and surviving them means moving fast, thinking faster, and staying just sane enough to make it out the other side.
Deathstate: Abyssal Edition is a fast-paced, bullet hell roguelike from developer The Bit Well, steeped in Lovecraftian dread. Diving into ever-shifting dimensions filled with nightmarish creatures, choosing from a cast of doomed investigators, and stacking items into increasingly wild builds, you’ll fight through cosmic horror at breakneck speed on the way to whatever’s waiting at the bottom.
What Makes It Different?
- Battle through fast, precise bullet hell combat against cosmic horrors
- Explore procedurally generated dimensions that shift with every attempt
- Choose from multiple playable characters, each with their own story and abilities
- Collect and combine items into unpredictable, run-defining builds
- Face nightmarish enemies pulled straight from Lovecraftian mythology
- Push through permadeath runs where a single mistake can end everything
- Unlock new characters and content by surviving repeated attempts
Speed Over Everything
Deathstate leans hard into its bullet hell roots, demanding sharp reflexes and constant movement over slow, methodical play. Dimensions shift and warp as a run progresses, throwing new layouts and threats into the mix without warning, and staying alive means reading incoming attacks quickly and reacting even faster. That relentless pace gives even a short attempt a real sense of tension from the very first room.
A Cast of the Doomed
Every character playable in Deathstate carries their own personal reason for descending into cosmic horror, and their own set of starting abilities to match. Items collected along the way stack together in often unpredictable ways, meaning a build can spiral into something genuinely powerful, or genuinely chaotic, depending on what gets picked up. Unlocking new characters through repeated attempts adds a real sense of progress even when a given run doesn’t go well.
How Long Does a Run Take?
The average successful run time for a single complete playthrough is about 30 minutes to 1 hour. A single successful run typically takes around 30 to 45 minutes if you survive and progress through the dimensions to reach the end. A focused main story completion, factoring in early failures and learning the bullet hell mechanics, averages around 1 hour and 41 minutes according to community data, while unlocking all playable characters, items, and seeing extra content takes approximately 14.5 hours.
Controller Support
Deathstate: Abyssal Edition features Full Controller Support for Xbox Controllers. Support for other devices is not known.
Good If You Like…
If you enjoyed Enter the Gungeon, Katanaut, or Dracomaton, Deathstate: Abyssal Edition’s mix of bullet hell combat and cosmic horror roguelike design should be well worth a look.
