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🪱GRAIN ROT
Descend into a scorched wasteland, loot what's left, and pray your wooden body holds together.
8.2 / 10
1–4 players
👻Horror💼Extraction
Players
1–4
Released
Aug 7, 2026
Developer
Beck & Branch Games · Neem Interactive
Price
$9.99
Multi-playerCo-opOnline Co-opFull controller support
Beck & Branch's co-op extraction-builder set in a world where everything burns. You and up to three friends pilot fragile wooden vessels — when yours breaks, you keep playing as a disembodied Living Spark hunting for a new body while the Corrupted circle. Loot the shifting Deep Layers, haul it back to rebuild your Outpost, repeat. Launched Steam-wide August 7, 2026 after a viral pre-launch surge; the genre's grimmest death mechanic yet.
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You are a Living Spark surviving inside fragile wooden vessels that splinter, collapse, and catch fire. When your vessel breaks, the Spark escapes. Death is just a change of scenery.
Ride a cursed elevator into shifting underground ruins with your crew. Smash furniture for resources or feed them into the Grinder for gold. If everyone breaks, your loot is lost.
Trolling can become your friend’s demise. Dropkick enemies or “accidentally” launch your ally’s Spark out of their vessel. Block them in a monster-infested corridor or get stuck in the crossfire. Will your group handle the chaos you created yourselves?
The deeper you go, the worse the Rot becomes. Bodies warp. Voices distort. Emotes become…worse. Or possibly better?
The Deep Layers are filled with Corrupted vessels, reacting to sound, movement, and each other in ways that are impossible to predict. Fight. Build. Run. Panic.
When your vessel breaks, you stay in the run as a Spark. Guide your team through the dark and search for another host with a new set of abilities. Force your way back in before you fade out completely.
Everything you haul back rebuilds your Outpost. Unlock interactive furniture, stat upgrades, rescued survivors, and stranger ways to survive the next descent. The stronger the outpost becomes, the deeper you can afford to go.
Go deeper. Extract more. Leave someone behind. Make it back and build together.
Or don’t come back at all.
FEATURESPossess and swap between fragile wooden vessels
Co-op extraction horror with physics-driven chaos
Tactical carpentry with interactive furniture
Procedurally shifting underground dungeons
Persistent Outpost rebuilding and progression
Rage-bait your friends with cursed emotes
Rescue survivors trapped in the Deep Layers
Body corruption and mutation systems
Questionable cosmetics
Screenshots
Mods
Player-cap and essential quality-of-life mods, curator-verified where possible.No player-cap mods tracked for this game. Know one? Submit it.
Gear picks
Gear up your squad
🎧
A headset that won't crackleVoice-first slop lives or dies on your mic. Cheapest real upgrade to a game night.Shop on Amazon →
🎙️A standalone USB micWant the group to actually hear you scheming? A desk mic beats any headset boom.Shop on Amazon →
🎮A wireless PC controllerSome slop just plays better on a pad — party games, platformers, couch co-op.Shop on Amazon →
📷A 1080p webcamFor the nights that turn into hangouts — let the squad see the chaos on your face.Shop on Amazon →
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