Yes — Dreadrun is free to play, so you can install and play it without buying anything.

Is Dreadrun Steam Deck compatible?

Mostly. Valve rates Dreadrun Playable on Steam Deck: it runs, but may need some manual tweaking — a community controller layout, or zooming in on small text.

Can I play Dreadrun on Mac?

Not natively — Steam lists no macOS version of Dreadrun. Mac players would need a cloud gaming service or a Windows compatibility layer.

Is Dreadrun multiplayer?

No — Steam lists Dreadrun as single-player only.

Is Dreadrun on PC Game Pass?

No — Dreadrun is not on PC Game Pass right now.

Dreadrun

Name: Dreadrun
Brand: Havoc Minds
Availability: InStock

Havoc MInds · April 18, 2024 · Bullet Hell, Roguelike, Difficult, Action, Action Roguelike

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Dreadrun price

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About Dreadrun

In DreadRun, the game kicks off with the Exploration Phase, where you explore the island , gathering valuable items to gear up for what’s ahead. This phase sets the stage for the Payload Phase, the bullet hell action of the game, where you face a fast-paced, action-packed challenge, navigating through a horde of bullets, while trying to escort a payload till the end, to emerge victorious.

In the Exploration Phase of DreadRun, your goal is to quickly gather a variety of potions, superior weapon, and upgrades before time runs out. Your adventure leads you through numerous randomly located rooms on a vast island, with each session presenting new rooms and loot. The upgrades you come across are random each time, making every game a distinct and exciting challenge. Utilize every second as efficiently as possible so that you will be prepared for what's ahead

After gearing up in the Exploration Phase, the Payload Phase of DreadRun is where the intense bullet hell action unfolds. In this phase, you’re challenged with fighting off a swarm of enemies and simultaneously escorting the payload to its end goal. As you advance, you’ll encounter various enemy types that will try to block your path and make your mission tougher. It’s a thrilling test of your combat skills and strategy as you push through to the end.
The Team

This game is a college project made in less than 3 months by a team of passionate 6 developers, Avinash Prabhu, Somno, Hassan Abusalih, Dev Trivedi, Armaan Takyar and Armaan Sheikh

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2895050/Dreadrun/

Dreadrun — game info

Platforms: Windows
Steam Deck: Playable
Player modes: Single-player
PC Game Pass: Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Dreadrun is a short, fun top-down shooter with an interesting retro concept and solid music that players appreciate, though it suffers from significant technical issues including buggy gameplay and weapon mechanics that sometimes malfunction near walls. The low-poly voxel art style is a major turnoff for many, with the heavy reliance on procedural generation creating repetitive, soulless content rather than hand-crafted variety. While some see potential in the core concept and find the gunplay entertaining despite balance issues, the visual presentation and technical problems make it difficult

Recommended Aug 15, 2024

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9 found this helpful

Not recommended Dec 21, 2024

"Dreadrun" is a very meidocre 2D top down shooter with ugly low poly "voxel" "art" and procgen being used heavily, because if you're a developer and you're too lazy to create content, just use samey, soulless repetitive procgen algorithms instead. Gamers will never know! Procgen IS content!!!! This features fairly low quality low poly 3D visuals which will deter a lot of gamers, understandably. Gaming is a visual medium, and while some developers struggle with creating high quality visuals, failing to do so is a disservice to gamers. It's very difficult to recommend bad looking games. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 milli…

2 found this helpful

Not recommended Oct 17, 2024

this is one ♥♥♥♥♥♥ buggy ass game.

1 found this helpful

Recommended May 25, 2024

Cool concept, would love to see this fully fleshed out and realized

Recommended May 22, 2024

This is a short fun game. Machine gun OP. But the random skills and guns are fun to use. Shooting is a bit janky (when you get close to a wall, your gun sometimes gets stuck and shoots away from your cursor) but I'll count that as an intentional feature. I didn't understand the exploration phase in my first run, but I still managed to succeed. I music is nice too. It is a bit easy (at least for me) so I will request some difficulty options. But that isn't necessary and I do recommend.

Recommended May 18, 2024

fun modern take on retro and well thought out

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