In this fast-paced, top-down action roguelike, every tile is important, and escaping with your sanity isn’t guaranteed
Warsaw, Poland – October 8th, 2026 – Newly established dev studio Team Instant Defeat and 11 bit studios are thrilled to unveil Volatiles – a fast-paced, top-down action roguelike where you build your own battlefield to survive an invasion within your mind.
Every run in Volatiles starts with a single tile, and quickly evolves as you expand your battlefield by fighting through alien hordes, gathering experience, and levelling up. New tiles bring new possibilities, including weapons, upgrades, healing, tools, defenses, and risky synergies. You control the way the map takes shape, making tile placement a vital part of any build. Trying new strategies and tile placements are crucial to success, as is learning from your mistakes. Failing a run puts you back in a water-filled tank with new knowledge that just might save your life next time.
In Volatiles, the fight for survival takes place in your mind, as each run sends you deeper into an analog sci-fi nightmare. Locked in a covert lab with no memory of how you got there, you’re told that this is treatment. But something buried in your mind is feeding you visions of battlefields and battles that shouldn’t exist. And you’re not alone in this nightmare: somewhere outside it, strangers in a covert lab are watching closely, while whatever is growing in your mind is learning how to take control.
Your mind must become your weapon, and if you build smart, you might just get out of this alive. Wishlist Volatiles now on Steam.
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About Team Instant Defeat
Team Instant Defeat is a small, ambitious indie studio making action games with unexpected mechanics, haunting aesthetics, and just the right amount of chaos. Fully remote from day one, the team came together through chance internet encounters and a shared love of fun, weird, teeth-grindingly intense games. Their first release was a post-apocalyptic bullet-hell brick-breaker roguelike air-hockey game – yes, all of those things. Now they’re working on Volatiles, a survival roguelike that flips the genre upside down, covers it in mold, and puts a bullet between its eyes.
About 11 bit studios
11 bit studios is a Warsaw-based developer and publisher known for turning difficult, human stories into games – from the survival drama of This War of Mine to the society-building weight of Frostpunk and the identity puzzle of The Alters. As a publisher, the studio backs creators making equally distinctive, emotionally resonant work, including Indika, Moonlighter 2, and The Thaumaturge. With Trainwatch, 11 bit studios continues to build a catalogue defined by ideas of relatable entertainment and appealing uniqueness.
