Open now · By request
K-17 Solid Ground playtest
by Skewsignal
Escape a failing bunker and survive a giant, terminal-rendered wasteland. Scavenge for supplies, manage your bioreactor, explore cave systems and abandoned facilities, use salvaged bionics on yourself and outthink security drones alone or on a multiplayer server.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Nov 3, 2026
- Planned release
- Coming soon
- Developer
- Skewsignal
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux
- Players
- Co-op, Cross-platform, LAN, Multiplayer, Online co-op, Online PvP, PvP, Single-player
- Languages
- English, German
How to join the K-17 Solid Ground playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the K-17 Solid Ground playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Generative AI was used to assist with translation and localization of in-game text.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About K-17 Solid Ground
The bunker is only the beginning...
You wake up beneath a ruined world as Subject K-17. The bunker that is keeping you alive is failing, its old security systems still follow their orders, and reaching the surface is only the beginning of your story/struggle.
K-17 Solid Ground is a terminal-rendered survival game built around deliberate exploration. Every tile crossed consumes stored energy. Food sustains your bioreactor. Standing still costs nothing, allowing you to observe your surroundings and make careful decisions without being punished for taking your time.
Beyond the bunker lies a giant, procedurally generated wasteland of peat forests, swamps, rivers, roads, mountain caves, research facilities, roadside shelters, and enormous underground complexes. Long, quiet journeys make every distant structure—and every supply cache inside it—matter.
Observe the security robots and their intentions before deciding whether to avoid them, sneak past them, or enter a tactical turn-based battle with them.
Features
- Deterministic, seed-based procedural worlds
- Energy and bioreactor-based survival
- Exploration through caves, bunkers, roads, wilderness, and research facilities
- Scavenging, inventory management, equipment condition, and repairs
- Replaceable body parts and salvaged cybernetic modules
- Enemy vision and tactical intentions
- Permadeath (optional respawn-based) worlds
- Single-player and multiplayer
- Multiplayer chat
- English and German localization
Escaping your starting bunker is not victory. There is no world-saving goal waiting outside, only the next journey, the next structure, and the question of whether you starve before reaching it or not.
From the game's Steam page.
