Roboquest

Movement is the combat system in Roboquest. RyseUp Studios built this first-person shooter around constant kinetic pressure: players sprint, jump, and dodge through bullet-hell salvos from robotic enemies, and the ability to outmaneuver fire matters as much as raw damage output. Standing still is a reliable way to die.

Each run drops the player into randomly generated environments built from a mix of fixed and procedural chunks, so layouts shift without becoming incoherent. Along the way, weapons range from shotguns, rifles, and snipers to a mortar and a flare gun, and each class — drone commander, rocket-focused blaster, stealth striker, among others — carries its own upgrade tree. Finding synergies between class abilities and whatever weapons the run provides is where most of the decision-making lives. Bosses gate progress between zones and demand the movement mastery the earlier rooms have been training.

• Several distinct Guardian classes, each with unique upgrade sets and playstyle identity
• Singleplayer and two-player co-op with cross-platform support and public matchmaking
• Persistent basecamp upgrades purchased with wrenches collected across runs
• Weapons spanning conventional firearms to unconventional ordnance like the mortar and flare gun
• Procedural levels built from themed chunks, varying atmosphere between runs
• A VR version launched in November 2025

Roboquest spent time in early access before RyseUp Studios released the full version on November 7, 2023. Post-launch support continued actively: the Endless Update (v1.5) arrived in November 2024, adding what its title implies as a new mode, and a PlayStation release followed in May 2025. That same month an update titled “The End of the Journey” marked a concluding content milestone for the base game. A VR edition went live in November 2025, extending the game into a new platform rather than retiring it.

The game is set in the year 2700, with a skeletal but present narrative: a scavenger named Max reactivates an abandoned Guardian robot, and the two push into bot-controlled canyons searching for answers. The story frames the run structure without demanding attention. Roboquest rewards players who want a fast, skill-driven FPS and are willing to lose repeatedly while learning enemy patterns and movement timing — the difficulty is real, and fluency with both shooting and traversal is the only path through.