Section 13 on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter. Select your load-out, stack up temporary and persistent upgrades, and delve into the depths of a subterranean base, either alone or in a group of up to 3 players.

Section 13 is a early access, dark and top-down shooter game developed by Ocean Drive Studio and Inc. and published by Ocean Drive Studio, Inc. and Kakao Games.
Released on July 19th 2023 is available only on Windows in 10 languages: English, Korean, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.

It has received 659 reviews of which 455 were positive and 204 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.6 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Section 13 into these genres:

Early Access Dark Top-Down Shooter Action Roguelike Zombies Twin Stick Shooter Rogue-lite Shooter PvE Adventure Survival Singleplayer Combat Action Atmospheric Rogue-like Co-op Top-Down 3D Supernatural

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 x64
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 or AMD equivalent
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 960 or Radeon equivalent with 2 GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

Awesome rogue-lite, snappy controls and action, enough upgrades and discoveries/variety for some mad "just one more run" feels - I played solo and had a blast, I can imagine co-op is epic fun :)

March 2025

Fun game, but devs at the start making me wait 2 mins to enter the area and listen to all the dialog almost made me quit and refund. Do not waste players times, give them the option to skip everything and get right into the action!

Feb. 2025

I love this game, its a game I have been wishing and waiting for, after playing the ascent I needed something more similar yet zombie like survivor and this really hit the spot, I have just finished the boss and was hoping for a second run but sadly that was it.

Oct. 2024

I haven't played it before it changed to Section 13 but what they have is pretty fun. Needs more media advertising to get the word out maybe? Literally found this on accident. It has the foundations of something good.

Aug. 2024

TL;DR - a vocal minority of the players are misconstruing how the game is evolving in order to review bomb it. The game is good, *does/will still have co-op*, and I'm excited to see where the new direction takes it. At $13 it's absolutely worth it, even more so at the present $10 sale price. That's the cost of a drive-thru meal and you'll get way more enjoyment from this. In fact I've bought several copies for friends just to play with them. Don't listen to the massive influx of negative reviews; it's just your standard review bomb tantrum. The long version: The game is getting review bombed by people who can't read. Don't buy into it. The developers had a small but competent "tactical twin-stick co-op shooter". It received a middling reception and they added a single player component which, while technically there, was nothing to write home about. But they got positive community feedback so they have recently announced a pretty large pivot to more of that gameplay so that, if you wish, you can have a compelling single-player narrative or play co-op. However, the gaming community is going to gaming community and everyone misinterpreted this as "co-op is going away". It's not. They've stated like 3 times over two posts it's not. The co-op is being temporarily disabled while they implement new systems and that is making the community go apeshiii resulting in said review bomb. With that out of the way - TO REITERATE THERE IS STILL CO-OP - they are also changing some of the game systems. The prior version (when it was called "Blackout Protocol") was attempting to be a "tactical" shooter. You had limited ammo, there were different damage types, and a sort of locked-in upgrade path for the weapons you picked up. While all that sounds nice, it didn't play out quite as well as it needed to, so those systems are getting an overhaul into what can be considered more of an "action" format. However, since this is still EA so bear in mind none of this is final. They put out a demo - go peep it - and are asking for feedback. Bear in mind these changes were made *because of community feedback*. Key changes are ammo is now unlimited but requires a reload. Which is fine because ammo management was never really a major problem before. They removed psychic damage and, again, it was kind of irrelevant except for one or two enemies which could only (or primarily) be damaged by psychic weapons. They also changed how you dodge rolled and overhauled the in-mission and meta upgrade systems to be more streamlined - you're now going to get more of the classic "pick one of three" throughout the missions and you're no longer locked in to certain upgrades based on the RNG of the weapons you picked up. Finally, they're adding pickups that provide narrative elements. In short, they are changing to a less "tactics" oriented experience because it didn't really work. Whether that's your bag is a matter of opinion but IMO the changes they've announced are almost all universally good things. I enjoyed the old Blackout Protocol but it definitely had its problems, was short, and grew stale very quickly. It sounds like the changes are going to address those complaints. But, again, you wouldn't get that from the very reasonable community which is now review bombing a small, independent, like 30 person studio based on a misunderstanding of changes most of them haven't even experienced yet. It's your standard tempest in a teapot that, ironically, damages the product these folks purport to love.

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19.50€

6.6

455

204

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Developer

Ocean Drive Studio, Inc.

Publisher

Ocean Drive Studio, Inc., Kakao Games

Release 19 Jul 2023

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