Cannibal Crossing

Shooter· Action Roguelike· Base Building· Action

Released May 2022

Cannibal Crossing is an action-survival game where you explore the randomly generated town of Earlsboro while scavenging, fighting hordes of enemies, building a base, and searching for a way to escape! Meet survivors with new abilities and lots of cannibals. Includes a co-op mode for 1-4 players!

61% positive · 259 reviews

Done

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Done

All announced content has been released

High confidence

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Evaluation

Cannibal Crossing launched into Early Access on October 23, 2020 and graduated to its full 1.0 release on May 26, 2022. The developer (Rocketcat Games / Kepa Auwae) was highly active throughout Early Access, shipping numerous major feature patches — adding characters, bosses, game modes, online co-op, difficulty tiers, and much more — before declaring the game ready for its full launch. The 1.0 launch post noted that further updates were possible ("keep the feedback coming! We can always do more updates"), and a pre-1.0 development status post from February 2022 mentioned that if the launch went well, the team would look into further content updates and potential ports. However, these were explicitly contingent on commercial performance and were stated as possibilities, not commitments. After the 1.0 release on May 26, 2022, developer communication dropped off significantly. The only post-launch update on record is a minor bug fix (Version 1.0.0.5, January 25, 2023), which itself mentioned "another new update coming soon." That follow-up update never appeared publicly, and there have been no developer communications of any kind since January 25, 2023 — now over three years ago as of June 2026. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced roadmap, no outstanding content commitments, and no post-launch update pattern sufficient to suggest ongoing development. The game has one post-launch major content milestone (the 1.0 launch itself) and one subsequent minor bug fix, after which all communication ceased. With silence stretching well beyond any reasonable expectation of a follow-up, the game is best understood as a complete, finished product as of its last update in January 2023.

Evidence

Cannibal Crossing 1.0 launched, exiting Early Access. Developer encouraged continued feedback and said 'we can always do more updates,' but made no specific content commitments.

news post · May 26, 2022 source ambiguous

high

Minor bug fix update (v1.0.0.5) released. Post mentioned another update coming soon, but no such update was ever published. This is the last official communication from the developer.

news post · Jan 25, 2023 source ambiguous

medium

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Details

Developer

Everplay Interactive

Publisher

Rocketcat Games

Achievements

Platform

Windows

Controller

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Steam Deck

Verified

Players

Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen

Action Roguelike Base Building Action Top-Down Shooter Open World Survival Craft Open World Adventure Survival Procedural Generation Crafting 2D Roguelike Post-apocalyptic Indie Top-Down

About this game

Cannibal Crossing is an over the top action-survival game where you must explore a randomly generated town while scavenging, building a base, fighting hordes of deadly foes, and searching for a way to escape! Along the way, you'll encounter bandits, cannibals and beasts (mostly cannibals) – as well as other survivors. Face increasingly large swarms of enemies as you add to and improve your arsenal of weapons.

GAME FEATURES

Play Alone – or With Up to 3 Friends in our co-op Horde Mode: Face the days alone or get by with a little help from your friends in a fast base-building co-op mode. Run slightly faster than them so they get eaten instead of you.
Randomly Generated Open World: Earlsboro has a different layout every time you play, and you will have to adapt to find the supplies you need. Explore the town to find special encounters, unique buildings with their own specialized loot, and places to fortify for temporary safety.
Rescue Other Survivors: Help out other survivors, who will then be available to follow you around, help you upgrade buildings, and become permanently unlocked as playable characters.
Choose Your Character: There are 10 unique characters to play, with their own traits, special abilities, equipment, and playstyles. Each character has their own unique unlockable classes, for even more ways to play the game.
Build Your Base: You can pick any spot in the world to try to carve out a little bit of safety with a fortified base. Place down turrets, walls, and other defenses. Then place down structures to help out your team, such as Ammo Presses, Quantum Mailboxes, Smelters, Luck Shrines, and more.
Enemy Hordes: Nearly the entire town has turned into mutant cannibals with questionable manners, and worse things are coming. Fight or flee from your enemies, and get respite by hiding in buildings that you can barricade. Use firearms, explosive traps, melee weapons, fire, sniping, overly volatile parked cars, and other methods to face large groups.
Invasion Events: With a short warning, massive groups of enemies can descend on you. Run like hell, bring out your big guns, or get assistance from your base defenses. Sometimes, with stealth and fast reflexes, you can turn the tables and take the fight to the enemy's base instead of yours.
Big Bosses: Defeat special boss monsters to get closer to escaping the town. Watch out, as every boss kill makes future bosses stronger.