Letter Lancers: Prologue

Letter Lancers: Prologue

Early access since Jun 2024

A 4-player local co-op rogue-lite bullet-hell that will have you and your friends laughing your way through epic battles! Grab your friends, pick your characters, and get ready to ruin someone's day! Level up, select from hundreds of modifiers, get loot, and earn your place on the leaderboards!

99% positive · 144 reviews
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In early access, still in active development
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In early access, still in active development
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Evaluation

Letter Lancers: Prologue is a free-to-play Early Access prologue for the upcoming full game Letter Lancers, developed and published by Wetcoat Games. The store description is explicit that this is a limited preview — players can only access approximately 30% of the first level, are locked out of newer game modes, achievements, and character unlocks, with the full game intended to offer the complete experience. Since launching on June 5, 2024, the developer has been actively updating the prologue at a consistent pace. Six major content updates shipped between June 2024 and November 28, 2024, each adding new characters, weapons, game modes (Survivor, Time Attack), and systems like the permanent meta-progression system and loot enemy mechanics. Four feature patches added additional weapons, abilities, and quality-of-life improvements across the same period. The most recent developer communication was a hotfix on May 25, 2025, confirming the developer remains engaged with the product. The prologue itself is not purchasable — it is free — and the Steam Early Access flag is active. As a limited prologue for an unfinished full game, this product is in active development by design. No completion date applies, as the game has not reached a 1.0 release and the developer has not announced any conclusion of development.
Evidence
Major content update v0.16.0 added a new character (Clerk), new weapon (Letter), narrative content, and balance changes — the most recent major content update.
news post · Nov 28, 2024 source content shipped
high
Major content update v0.14.0 added a new character (Demon), a new weapon (Bill), and two new game modes (Survivor and Time Attack).
news post · Oct 30, 2024 source content shipped
high

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Wetcoat Games
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player · Multiplayer · Co-op · Local/Split Screen

About this game

This is the prologue version to the official full version of the game. This version is limited to the following:

  • The prologue version only allows you access to 1 level.

  • The prologue version allows you get through ~30% of the first level.

  • The prologue version prevents you from playing newer game modes.

  • The prologue version prevents you from unlocking achievements.

  • The prologue version prevents you from unlocking new characters.

A 4-player local co-op rogue-lite bullet-hell dungeon crawling horde game that'll have you and your friends dive into the heart of the action, facing relentless waves of adversaries in a battle for survival.

Experience our dynamic daily challenge game mode feature, where each day presents a fresh challenge to conquer by mixing up different gameplay modifiers, pool of selectable characters, and enemies spawned. With each reset to the daily leaderboards, every day offers a new opportunity to rise to the top.

With multiple game modes to explore, including the ever-changing daily challenge, Letter Lancers promises thrills and excitement for you and your friends. Are you ready to carve your name into the halls of fame and become a legendary Letter Lancer?

  • Local co-op up to 4 players. Get some buddies together in person or invite your Steam friends to play with via Steam's Steam Remote. Controllers are required to play local multiplayer.

  • Stay in the action! Reviving team members made easy, keeping all players in the game without too much down time between deaths.
    1 of multiple game modes -- The standard way the game was meant to be played. Dungeon crawl through procedurally generated rooms, kill all enemies, level up, and get that sweet, SWEET, loot! Struggling with your run and need a boost? We got you. Get rewarded at the end of each run, even if you fail. Rewards can unlock meta progression upgrades to make your runs easier. You got this buddy. A different game mode featuring it's own 24 hour leaderboards. Top daily scores are posted in the Letter Lancers discord server. A procedurally generated ruleset our servers generate that changes the gameplay experience everyday, adding different gameplay modifiers, allowing for only certain characters to be used, mixes up enemies spawned, and ether increases the player's power scaling fantasy, or gives you a real hard time. How far will you make it? Equal playing field: Meta progression upgrades are disabled in this mode. Disclaimer: An active internet connection is required to play the Daily Challenge mode. (You can still play other modes without an internet connection) Compete in leaderboards specific to level, amount of players, and game mode. Standard mode leaderboards are reset with every major update. Daily leaderboards reset every 24 hours, and top scores are posted and immortalized in the Letter Lancers discord. Disclaimer: An active internet connection is required to post your leaderboard scores. (You can still play without an internet connection)

Last evaluated Jul 23, 2026
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