Deep Rock GalacticRogue Core

Rogue Core has been in Early Access since May 20, 2026, and it is a different animal from Deep Rock Galactic. You start every run with a gauntlet and nothing else, find your guns in the facility, and lose all of it when the team goes down.

The official wiki already lists every weapon and enemy, and it does that better than a fan site will. This site covers the layer above it: which boss to fight first, when to spend a Merit, and why 3.6% of players have killed the last boss while 80.2% have killed the first.

State of the game, checked 2026-11-15

The free weekend runs to Monday November 16 and the price is $14.99, down from $29.99. Reviews sit at 70% positive across 7,858 of them, and those numbers move hourly. The verdict is in the achievement table below.

Before your first drop

1. Pick Guardian. Its abilities do not need a weak-point hit, and it is the class that survives a floor it should not have.
2. Set Threat Level 2 and Cautious pace. Threat Level decides enemies and damage, pace decides how long each floor gives you.
3. Take the Flare Gun from the glass box at the entrance. It sits outside your traversal slot since Update 3.
4. Kill on the way to the elevator. Since Update 3 every enemy drops Expenite, so a vein is not the only route to your first upgrade.

Difficulty in one table

The first boss is nearly free and the last one is rare. That shape is this site in one table: the game gets harder in steps, and the biggest step is Depth 4.

Official Ghost Ship Games announcement art.

Where to go next

The cards above are the order that works. Start with the boss order if a fight is stopping you.