Drone Break

Drone Break is a side-scrolling run-and-gun roguelike shooter in which you play as an alien drone freed from the Hive Mind. You fight through randomized stages, grow stronger across runs and aim to escape the Hive Mind and free your fellow drones.

Runs and progression

Each run includes procedural elements such as randomized stages and enemy spawns. After completing areas or dying, you can upgrade stats and abilities, including running speed, jumping, grenade capacity and laser guns. Other upgrades include friendly satellite turrets. The game also has collectible Tech-Alterations that change how your laser beam, grenades and friendly satellite turrets work.

How much progress you keep on death depends on the mode:

• Cheat Mode: become overpowered instantly and unlock all stages, but disable achievements.
• Easy Mode: keep all progress and become overpowered quickly over time.
• Casual Mode: keep world progress but gain no ability progress.
• Hard Mode: keep abilities but lose world progress on death.
• Expert Mode: lose all game progress on death.

Stages and bosses

There are 28 area themes, each with randomized aspects and versions on each run, including randomized enemy and hazard spawns. Each themed stage has a corresponding boss, for 28 bosses in total. You can replay completed themed areas in optional Brutal Mode for additional power-ups and multiplied bonuses.

Audio

The game features over 120 original audio loop tracks and a range of sound effects.