DEPRECATED

An auto-fire pulse keeps you alive. It does not win runs. Heavy attacks, dash-cancels, deflects and three watt-powered abilities do. Standing still is never correct. You found the last scraps of human code hiding inside an AI mainframe. On its own it's nothing: deprecated code, unmaintained for years, forgotten in an Audio Chip. But it evolved alongside the AI, and somehow it's on our side. Together, you're the only human voice left in the system. The AI is about to seize control of everything humanity depends on.

Power. Water. Defense. You don't know why yet. Climb to the CORE and find out.DEPRECATED (AKA Project Brown-out) is a top-down character-action roguelite wearing a bullet heaven skin. You slip into a hostile AI disguised as a forgotten maintenance program, fight its own hardware across its circuit boards, and climb toward its CORE. Not to destroy it. To talk it out of what it is becoming. Sixteen weapon tiers that change shape, not numbers. One bolt becomes two, then a fan, then a full ring around you.

You see the upgrade. You never read it. Guardians built from the same parts as you. Take them apart limb by limb. They keep fighting on their knees. Nothing is sent after you. Every enemy is the board's own hardware, switched off and waiting. You wake it by walking too close. Burn the system's power to survive.…