.Forty-Five
Released Mar 2024
A perfect mix of card game, rogue-lite, and pure wild west mayhem. Explore an ever-changing map, collect cards, and battle enemies. Cards are Bullets and are loaded into the revolver to gun down enemies. Experience .Forty-Five's innovative gameplay for free!
94% positive · 1,013 reviews
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Released, but content still planned
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Content Planned
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Released, but content still planned
High confidence
Content Planned
Where to get it
Free on Steam
Evaluation
.Forty-Five launched on March 24, 2024 as a free, open-source card/rogue-lite game developed by five students as a diploma thesis. From launch through June 2024, the team posted weekly feature updates adding new cards, balance changes, and quality-of-life improvements. In September 2024, they announced a large content update in development — a new biome, new enemy type, reworked map generation, new cards, and more — though no release date was given at the time.
Then, on May 4, 2026, the studio published a major development update revealing that what began as a planned content update had grown into something much larger. Working alongside a new partner studio called Crested Fox, they have been rebuilding the game from the ground up as **.Forty-Five: Reloaded** — a remake featuring a brand-new art style, two new gameplay modes (Constructed and Limited), a reworked map traversal system, a new difficulty system, and a range of new content and mechanics. The team describes it as the "best version" of the game and says a demo is planned for the second half of 2026, though no firm date is set given that both studios are unfunded student teams.
The current version of .Forty-Five remains live on Steam and is celebrated by the developers as a foundation they're proud of. However, the clear next chapter for this game is .Forty-Five: Reloaded, which is actively in development and approaching a playable demo.
Evidence
Developers announced .Forty-Five: Reloaded — a full remake with new art style, two gameplay modes, new mechanics, and expanded content, developed jointly with Crested Fox. A demo is targeted for the second half of 2026.
Team confirmed they were working on a major update including a new biome, new enemy type, reworked map generation, and many new cards, though no release date was announced.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Microwave Studios
Achievements
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Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
A perfect mix of card game, rogue-lite, and pure wild west mayhem. Explore an ever-changing map, collect interesting cards, and battle enemies.
Explore and Collect
Explore the Frontier and add powerful cards - bullets - to your collection. Each one equipped with its own unique effect.
Build
Each bullet has an individual effect, used to create powerful synergies. Use them to build your deck and to become an Outlaw Legend!
Load and shoot to kill!
Load your cards into the revolver and use the effects to your advantage, while also utilizing the limited amount of chambers and the rotations of the revolver. Then, shoot the enemies and send them 6 feet deep! But watch out, he won't just stand there letting you shoot him down so easily…
Features
Completely free & Open Source: And thats a great price if you ask me. No ads or any kind of microtransactions, I promise. Read down below to find out more about the open-source licence that .forty-five is under.
Over 50 unique cards: some serious and some … a little bit … less serious.
Innovative gameplay: allowing the player to achieve creative combos with the revolvers rotation.
100% handdrawn assets: I might not be the next picasso, but hey, I'm trying okay …
A procedurally generated map: ever-changing, guaranteeing a new experience every run.
Deckbuilding: to truly personalize your way of … shooting people.
Different enemy types: so you'll never run out of things to shoot at.
Unique biomes: each … you know what just download and find out it's free.
We are open source!
The source code of .forty-five is public under the GPLv3 license. But what does that actually mean? It means that anyone is free to view and share the code of the game. Also, everyone can make their own modified versions of our game and redistribute it, as long as they maintain the GPLv3.0 license.
Want to know more? Read about the license here:
Want to take a look at our code? Visit our Github:
Project Infos:
.Forty-Five is developed as a Diploma Thesis by five students of the higher technical vocational school "HTL Rennweg" in Vienna. We hope you will have as much fun playing, as we had developing.
Explore and Collect
Explore the Frontier and add powerful cards - bullets - to your collection. Each one equipped with its own unique effect.
Build
Each bullet has an individual effect, used to create powerful synergies. Use them to build your deck and to become an Outlaw Legend!
Load and shoot to kill!
Load your cards into the revolver and use the effects to your advantage, while also utilizing the limited amount of chambers and the rotations of the revolver. Then, shoot the enemies and send them 6 feet deep! But watch out, he won't just stand there letting you shoot him down so easily…
Features
Completely free & Open Source: And thats a great price if you ask me. No ads or any kind of microtransactions, I promise. Read down below to find out more about the open-source licence that .forty-five is under.
Over 50 unique cards: some serious and some … a little bit … less serious.
Innovative gameplay: allowing the player to achieve creative combos with the revolvers rotation.
100% handdrawn assets: I might not be the next picasso, but hey, I'm trying okay …
A procedurally generated map: ever-changing, guaranteeing a new experience every run.
Deckbuilding: to truly personalize your way of … shooting people.
Different enemy types: so you'll never run out of things to shoot at.
Unique biomes: each … you know what just download and find out it's free.
We are open source!
The source code of .forty-five is public under the GPLv3 license. But what does that actually mean? It means that anyone is free to view and share the code of the game. Also, everyone can make their own modified versions of our game and redistribute it, as long as they maintain the GPLv3.0 license.
Want to know more? Read about the license here:
Want to take a look at our code? Visit our Github:
Project Infos:
.Forty-Five is developed as a Diploma Thesis by five students of the higher technical vocational school "HTL Rennweg" in Vienna. We hope you will have as much fun playing, as we had developing.
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Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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