- Devil Daggers 2 is in development, as its creator confirms fewer than 1,500 people survived longer than 8 minutes in the original - 19 February 2026
This time 10 years ago most of my PC Gamer colleagues were addicted to Devil Daggers, a lo-fi survival FPS whose grimy low-poly art style beat the current early 3D nostalgia wave by at least four years. It's pretty simple: you stand in a flat and featureless arena and fend off increasingly nasty waves of eldritch foes with magical daggers. The object is to stay alive for as long as possible... Read more.
- Celebrating 10 years! - 19 February 2026
A huge thank you to the 350,000+ people who played Devil Daggers over the last 10 years!And a special shout out to the 1,472 who reached 500 seconds!Today seems like a good day to announce that we are working hard on Devil Daggers II. Stay tuned.
- The best FPS game you've never played is $3 right now - 18 May 2024
There is no other game quite like Devil Daggers . Created by Sorath and originally launched in 2016, Devil Daggers is a contest of skill and perseverance, its steadily increasing difficulty calling to mind Gears of War's horde mode, its bullet hell design offering an FPS game spin on shmups like Ikaruga or Battle Garegga, and its infernal visuals taking notes from Doom or Quake. It's a tremendous work, endlessly compelling and, best of all, available for just under $3 USD right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Devil Daggers is a horrifying blend of Quake and every nightmare you've ever had
- HYPER DEMON - Available now - 23 September 2022
HYPER DEMON is an FPS like no other.. a pearl of lightning. a dream from the future. a drop of poison. a swan song. The faster you slay demons, the harder the game and the higher your score. There is an end will it see you? https://store.steampowered.com/app/1743850/HYPER_DEMON/
- Small patch April 2022 - 14 April 2022
Improved performance and fixed occasional stutter on some systems. Fixed friend leaderboard not working if Steam profile was set to private. A "HIDE" button has been added above the friend leaderboard in the "OVERVIEW" tab. Hidden state will be saved when exiting the game. Hidden friend leaderboard will also prevent the "BEAT FRIEND'S TIME" notification. Steam friends can be removed using the "UNFOLLOW" button on their in-game profile.
- Small update March 2022 - 8 March 2022
shows active player count on leaderboards and when launching the game fixed scroll wheel on local replay list improved support for game modes in custom levels added keyboard/mouse controls for seeking replays press left/right arrow keys or mouse4/5 to skip +- 3 seconds, or 10 seconds if holding ctrl Update: fixed bug with frame limiter more performance improvements
- v3.2 - 26 October 2021
v3.2 adds local replays along with some gameplay consistency improvements. local replays replays for 10 most recent runs are kept automatically and can be manually saved to keep longer. access by navigating to LEADERBOARDS -> STATS -> LOCAL REPLAYS local replays for custom spawnsets will work automatically and will show the name of the spawnset if it was downloaded from DevilDaggers.info gameplay changes lvl4 homing can now ricochet off empty centipede/gigapede segments. destroyed gigapede segments have a darker texture on the legs, making remaining gems easier to spot. spider2 corpse erode animation starts sooner. centipede emerge particle effect more accurately shows where it will emerge. ghostpede will always emerge with weak points facing the centre of the arena. spider hitbox scales to match spawn animation. delay on lvl4 homing detonate is reduced from 2 frames to 1. skulls, spide…
- Gloomy and tough arena shooter Devil Daggers gets a 5 year anniversary update - 25 February 2021
Devil Daggers is really something else and I fear for my free time again, as the recent 5 year anniversary update is a great reminder that it begs to be played. Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/02/gloomy-and-tough-arena-shooter-devil-daggers-gets-a-5-year-anniversary-update
- 5 year anniversary QOL update. - 19 February 2021
To thank our community and celebrate Devil Daggers' 5 year anniversary we've released a quality of life update. Unique dagger for players with 1000 seconds or more. Replay scrubbing, allows you to instantly skip to any part of a replay. Stats and graphs in replays. Optimizations have been made throughout the game, improving performance by up to 5x or more in some cases. Improved fps limiter and added slider to options menu. Added volume slider for menu music. Changed default fov from 75 to 90. Added gem/homing counter (toggle by pressing 2). Improved mod support (allows smaller mod files, and stacking multiple mods). Added controls for toggling different hud elements (default keys 1,2,3,4) Added a short delay before activating mouse after death to avoid clicking off-screen. Fixed kill count and accuracy in stats. Added more data for ddstats to use. Fixed bug that caused player sounds an…
- Daily Deal - Devil Daggers, 50% Off - 1 November 2019
Today's Deal: Save 50% on Devil Daggers !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Sunday at 10AM Pacific Time
- Devil Daggers records still being broken, still wild as all heck - 8 October 2018
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven,” Satan once wrote on a toilet door, back before he was ejected from his skull throne by Devil Daggers players. Those Hellbound hearts have been scrapping for top spot on the leaderboards since the wave-survival FPS launched in February 2016, and today I’m delighted to see records are still being set. New hellchamp “Bintr” yesterday survived over eighteen minutes, beating a months-old records by a precious three seconds. I am still in awe of not only how well they play, but how amazing the game looks and sounds once things really kick off (officially the best-looking and best-sounding FPS, says me). Come watch Bintr’s performance. (more…)
- 2016 GotY Devil Daggers summoned on GOG - 10 April 2018
Our favourite game of 2016 , Devil Daggers , has escaped the shackles of Steam and is now sold on GOG too. It’s not of this world, a brutal score attack arena FPS which swarms with skulls and communicates by roars, hisses, and wibbles. If you’re particular about storefronts and have been holding out, get stuck in. Even if you’re not into the idea of an intense score attack arena shooter, 3 to fill your ears and eyes with a game which looks and sounds like no other isn’t half-bad. And if you have to play Devil Daggers intensely to improve enough to reach its best sights and sounds, well, so be it. (more…)
- These Devil Daggers mods are a great reason to head back to hell - 6 March 2018
Devil Daggers turned two last month, so I went looking for ways to celebrate. What’s the world record by now, I wondered? In this hellscape of an arena shooter in which most people struggle to get past the 60 second mark, someone’s managed to last an utterly flabbergasting 18 and a half minutes. That video awaits below, but more exciting still is my round up of the best Devil Daggers mods. Yep, those are a thing! If you’re hoping for new enemies or weapons, I should probably nip those expectations in the bud: nobody’s made Devil Badgers just yet. For the most part, all these do is mix up the enemy spawns. If this were any other shooter that might not be all that interesting, but which enemies appear and when defines Devil Daggers to such an extent that these mods almost feel like different games. (more…)
- Get Devil Daggers, Who's Your Daddy, and Pony Island in the Humble Microjumbo Bundle - 9 August 2017
The Humble Microjumbo Bundle is a little different than most previous Humble Bundles, because two of the games in the package are straight-up free: Just give them your email address and enjoy. But a few bucks more will get you a number of other games, including some we've played in the past that we actually really enjoyed.  DRM-free (that is, non-Steam) versions of Space Pilgrim Episode 1 and Pony Island are yours for the taking, or for a minimum of one penny (although that's kind of a dick move) you can also lay claim to Space Pilgrim Episodes 1-4. For $1, you get Steam keys for all of the above, plus Geometry Dash, Pony Island, and Oh... Sir! The Insult Simulator.  And as usual, there's still more to be had for breaking the average price, which right now is just a hair over three bucks: Who's Your Daddy, Town of Salem, hack_me and hack_me 2, Devil Daggers…
- The most obscure Steam achievements - 19 May 2017
Achievement hunting on Steam is serious business. While Valve's storefront might not have Xbox's Gamerscore or PlayStation's Trophies, there are still plenty of PC gamers who appreciate the way Steam achievements challenge them to play games in new and interesting ways. Then there's the satisfaction of knowing you're one of just a small percentage of players who've explored every nook and cranny, maxed out every stat, or earned every gold medal a game has to offer.  The thing is, a lot of Steam achievements are kind of boring. Kill 10,000 enemies, hit level 99 in every class, finish the game on Ultra Nightmare Hardcore difficulty—most of the objectives feel like they've fallen straight out of a free-to-play MMO's quest log. Even the rarest achievements are often little more than tedious grind fests, requiring you to play 500 online mat…
- RPS Advent Calendar, Dec 24th: Devil Daggers - 24 December 2016
Here we are at last. What was the best game of 2016? What was the best hell of 2016? It’s the same game. It’s behind the final door of the RPS Advent Calendar , which lists our favourite games from across the year… It’s Devil Daggers ! …
- Devil Daggers is the year's best game about shooting infinite skulls forever - 22 December 2016
Look, I feel bad about this. I thought Devil Daggers came out late last year—November, maybe—and not in February. Had I remembered that it came out in 2016, I'd have argued strongly for it in almost all of our Game of the Year categories, including Best Racing Game, Best Overwatch, and Darkest Dungeon. In my defence the period from December to February is dark, oppressive, life-sapping and haunted by tentacle-skull-spider-monsters and so is Devil Daggers. One run, one hour, one day tends to blur into every other run, hour, and day. Time both passes and doesn't pass, when you're down there in Skull Hell, but time is paramount: all that matters is surviving just that little bit longer. You internalise the patterns and learn to cope. You start firing before the spider-creature appears, because it got you last time but it won't get you again. Devil Daggers…
- Free Loaders: Launching Devil Daggers Into Space - 11 October 2016
There was a GameBoy jam this week and everything has gone slightly green. Sprites have taken over the free games mines and are playing non-stop chiptune down there. I can barely show my face in all my regular cyberspots because I m just not pixellated enough. It was difficult to get you a haul of free games this week, is what I m saying. So you d better appreciate this bag of goodies. Here s the first one a hot mess of planet-jumping, bomb-throwing arcade action. It s a passionate mash-up of Devil Daggers and Mario Galaxy. Don t say I m not at the top of my curation game, because I am the undisputed king. Look upon my warez, ye mighty, and despair. …
- The world record Devil Daggers run is still under 15 minutes - 27 September 2016
Devil Daggers remains an enigma. We were taken with its opaqueness when it was released back in February: you stand in an arena and fight waves of hell beats by shooting energy out of your hands, there's no plot, and most only survive a few seconds. Death means restarting. The idea that there might be more to Devil Daggers that we haven't seen because no one's survived long enough to see it is pretty compelling. The leaderboards smartly include replays of the best runs so you can watch them for yourself if, like me, you'll never survive longer than a minute and we've been keeping track of the players' progress since Devil Daggers released. Back in March we posted an impressive 10 minute world record run . Six months later, the world record isn't much longer not that it isn't an impressive and hypnotic display of FPS skill. The current best run is 872.4143 seconds, a little over 14 and a…
- Linux build and v3 update released! - 21 September 2016
Devil Daggers v3 update is now available! The update includes: Linux support. New enemies and updated progression. Top down replay mode. (Press M to toggle) Per-user and global stats. Windowed mode support. Option to disable flashing hand for players sensitive to flashing lights. Hide menu text if mouse isn't active. Fix replays larger than 2MB failing to upload.
