Steam News15 May 20261mo ago

v2.0 - FREEDOM. ARENA MODE. PRICE DROP. WiRE-CUTTER UPDATE

Hey everyone, I have some big news to share regarding the future of Deadwire. As of today, I have officially regained the full publishing rights from my previous publisher. This means Deadwire is now 100% independent.

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addedTo celebrate this new chapter and to say a massive "thank you" for sticking with me, I’m making two big changes:

changedPermanent Price DropI want as many people as possible to experience Deadwire. To make the game more accessible to everyone, I am permanently lowering the price to $9.99 USD from $14.99. This is an example of the choices we can do now with less layers to run decisions through.

addedThe FREEDOM Update - Free Arena ModeAs a big thank you for the support, I have in the latest patch added a brand new game mode for free called ARENA. It's an endless horde mode letting you to play around with all of the skills and weapons in DeadWire. Survive as long as you can, score more points as enemies get tougher and tougher. If this mode gains traction I would love to develop it further. Let me know what you think!

DeadWire changes

addedTo celebrate this new chapter and to say a massive "thank you" for sticking with me, I’m making two big changes:

changedI want as many people as possible to experience Deadwire. To make the game more accessible to everyone, I am permanently lowering the price to $9.99 USD from $14.99. This is an example of the choices we can do now with less layers to run decisions through.

addedAs a big thank you for the support, I have in the latest patch added a brand new game mode for free called ARENA. It's an endless horde mode letting you to play around with all of the skills and weapons in DeadWire. Survive as long as you can, score more points as enemies get tougher and tougher. If this mode gains traction I would love to develop it further. Let me know what you think!

I have some big news to share regarding the future of Deadwire.

As of today, I have officially regained the full publishing rights from my previous publisher. This means Deadwire is now 100% independent. From this point forward, every bit of support you show goes directly to Shotgun Anaconda Games the developer and being reinvested into the game(s). I want to thank CoLab for their support but this sets us up to deliver a better experience to you the player.

To celebrate this new chapter and to say a massive "thank you" for sticking with me, I’m making two big changes:

Permanent Price Drop

I want as many people as possible to experience Deadwire. To make the game more accessible to everyone, I am permanently lowering the price to $9.99 USD from $14.99. This is an example of the choices we can do now with less layers to run decisions through.

The FREEDOM Update - Free Arena Mode

As a big thank you for the support, I have in the latest patch added a brand new game mode for free called ARENA. It's an endless horde mode letting you to play around with all of the skills and weapons in DeadWire. Survive as long as you can, score more points as enemies get tougher and tougher. If this mode gains traction I would love to develop it further. Let me know what you think!

As always, thank you for the reviews, feedback, comments, tweets, streams, clips etc. If you want to reach out, the easiest is on X, email or Discord (I still read the steam forums but I forget sometimes!)

https://x.com/ShotgunAnaconda

shotgunanacondadev@gmail.com

https://discord.gg/UZfPPAtSHZ

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