Hello Miners,
We just announced on The Big Break Showcase that Season 07, Season 08, AND a new Expansion DLC are officially confirmed for Deep Rock Galactic. It’s been a long time in the making, and it means loads of new content coming to Deep Rock Galactic within the next year.
You can see the brand-new 'Seasons Ahead' teaser here:
We’ll get right into the details of all this right down below.
SEASON 07: “CONTINGENCY PROTOCOL”
SITUATION BRIEFING: APPROVED FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION
The Company can confirm a recent surge of gravitational anomalies in and around Hoxxes IV, where geomagnetic poles seem to reverse within a concentrated area. Available data suggests this phenomenon may be linked to a recent spate of fatal Drop Pod crashes.
Management has enacted a CONTINGENCY PROTOCOL to investigate the cause of these regrettable incidents, and to prepare our operations in case the situation worsens. All active mining crews will be sent to Drop Pod crash sites to conduct forensic analysis. Furthermore, R&D is recieving a significant budget increase to issue new defensive technologies for our workforce. If this situation continues to threaten our operations, we must be ready.
Season 07 is on its way. We're aiming for a release date somewhere in December 2026.
It's turning out to be quite substantial, with a special focus on some of the most popular fan-requested features and additions. Down below, you’ll find some major-headline features of the season. You can expect more details as we get closer to release.
Obligatory WIP disclaimer: Everything shown down and described below is a work in progress, and may be subject to change.
NEW OVERCLOCKS
Season 07 will be introducing about 20 new Overclocks in total. This time around, everybody’s secondary weapons are getting some love. You can look forward to new OCs like Neurotoxin Minelets, Dragonfire Shells, Dismantler Rounds, and plenty more.
REVISED PERK SYSTEM
The time has come. We’re revisiting the Perk System with two main goals in mind: Adding new perks to expand the pool, and solving the issue with longtime players amassing a huge pile of unspent perk points.
Here are the main changes:
- 11 new perks have been added.
- Some old perks have been reworked.
- Addition of a new “Perk Maintenance” system, which will function similar to the existing Weapon Maintenance system.
- Once all perks are unlocked, you'll be able to unlock "Perk Proficiency" slots, which lets players dump excess points into them to grant very small baseline stat buffs.
TATTOO COSMETICS
The idea for a tattoo system in DRG goes back years, but now it’s time for the crew to get properly inked up. To enable that, Season 07 sees the introduction of the Kadoc Inker to the caves of Hoxxes.
These reclusive creatures may have crawled out of the deep end of the Ossuary Depths, but we’re not sure. In any case, the Inker is passive and conflict-shy, and can camouflage itself to blend in with its surroundings. Management wants you to find them and harvest their ink sacs for use in industrial pigments. But rumor has it that you can also use the ink for some unsanctioned tattoos.
There are four Inkers in this photo. Can you spot them?
TRAVERSAL TOOL PAINTJOBS
Fulfilling another longtime fan request, Season 07 will introduce the option to trick out your traversal tools — either to match your outfit, or for another look altogether. This new cosmetic system will likely tie into the Performance Pass, as well as a new "perk maintenance system" that rewards players for exploring different perk builds.
NEW SEASON EVENT
The recent gravitational anomalies have been messing with Drop Pod navigational systems, leading to a series of unfortunate crashes. We’re sending you to the crash sites to retrieve the onboard Memory Cores for further analysis. Heads up — gravity may still be a bit wonky there.
NEW PERFORMANCE PASS
As always, Season 07 brings an entirely new, completely free set of unlockable goodies to collect as you progress through the season’s challenges. Below is a first look at Season 07’s signature weapon framework: Ironclad Tactical.
These are the major headlines for Season 07! As always, you can expect a lot of smaller stuff like QoL tweaks and bugfixes on top of all this. We’ll have more to share in the weeks and months leading up to launch.
SEASON 08 + EXPANSION DLC
In summer 2027, we’ll be releasing Season 08 at the same time as an extensive gameplay expansion DLC.
Season 08, like every other season before it, will be completely free. The expansion DLC will cost real-life money. We know this is a first for us — and don’t worry, we’ll still keep doing free content updates too. But doing a big paid expansion allows us to be way more ambitious with the content we’re adding, and it’s the most direct way to support our work.
Season 08 will likely be one of the smaller ones, but it'll still have the essentials. We want to build on the story we set up in Season 07, and make sure everybody still gets some cool free stuff to go along with the Expansion.
It’s too early for us to share more details right now, as lots is still up in the air. Besides, we’ve gotta do Season 07 first. We put our pants on one leg at a time like everyone else. So we’ll focus on S07 for now, and then we’ll have more to say about Season 08 and The Expansion™ after that.
DRG UNIVERSE: THE YEAR AHEAD
There’s a lot planned for Deep Rock Galactic in this coming year — not only this game, but the extended DRG universe as well.
Here’s a timeline of everything coming in the next year for all things Deep Rock Galactic.
Last chance on preordering Abyss Bar beer mugs
Finally, a quick announcement from the mug-making merchandisers over at Scorched Steel: Finally, after four billion years in pre-production, the official Abyss Bar beer mugs are nearly ready to start coming off the assembly lines. Scorched Steel is closing preorders on October 31st — so if you'd like to be among the first to get your hands on one, you can order yours here.
We'd like to say a big thanks to everyone for playing Deep Rock Galactic and supporting us in the work we do here. We're eager to hear what you think of all this, and very excited for the year ahead.
With love,
-The Ghost Ship Crew + Invisible Walls