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OVERHEAT PROTOCOL playtest
by Rene Studios
OVERHEAT PROTOCOL is a fast-paced arena FPS with roguelite upgrades. Fight escalating waves of hostile machines, shape your rifle with every level, combine Lightning, Explosion, and Shatter effects, and survive until the arena finally overwhelms you.
Anyone with a Steam account can join, and it's free.
- Access
- Instant
- On playtest since
- Jul 21, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Rene Studios
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, Simplified Chinese, Turkish
How to join the OVERHEAT PROTOCOL playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Join playtest button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Use the OVERHEAT PROTOCOL playtest signup there. You're in straight away, with nothing to pay.
- The playtest shows up in your Steam library, ready to install and play.
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The developer's own words, from Steam.
About OVERHEAT PROTOCOL
ONE RIFLE. RISING PRESSURE.
OVERHEAT PROTOCOL is a fast-paced arena FPS built around intense survival runs. Enter the arena with one rifle, stay mobile, and cut through escalating waves of hostile machines before their numbers close every escape route.
Keep moving. Keep firing. Build faster than the arena escalates.
SHAPE THE WEAPON DURING THE RUN
Every level presents a new upgrade choice. Push raw damage, fire rate, precision, piercing, critical hits, or survivability to reshape the rifle's damage, handling, and projectile behavior over the course of the run.
Choose an elemental protocol and specialize into Lightning, Explosion, or Shatter. Arc damage through groups, detonate packed enemies, or break formations with cascading fragments.
OUTLAST THE MACHINE SWARM
As enemy numbers rise, positioning becomes increasingly important. Read the arena, control the crowd, protect your escape routes, and decide whether your next upgrade should increase power, control, or survival.
When the run ends, review your survival time, kills, level, and collected XP—then return with a different build and push your personal best further.
- Fast first-person arena combat
- Run-based level-up card drafting
- Lightning, Explosion, and Shatter specializations
- Escalating wave pressure with less room to breathe
- Survival-time and personal-best tracking
From the game's Steam page.
