Player reviews: 74% positive618 reviews
Steam Deck: Playable
Runs on: Windows

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2023 · Action · First-person shooter

Fortune's Run

Explore a decaying industrial world left behind in humanity's never-ending race to conquer the stars. Beneath its iron skies, desperate souls kill and steal for passage to the still-plentiful frontier worlds. Sink or swim in this high-octane first-person shooter with stealth and RPG elements.

Released: 27 September 2023
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action First-person shooter Indie Role-playing Shooter
Developers: —
Publishers: —
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action Science fiction Stealth
Languages: English

About

Fortune's Run is a cancelled first-person action shooter video game. It was being developed by Team Fortune, an indie developer team comprised by Dizzie and Arachne. The game is designed after 1990s sci-fi aesthetics and cites Deus Ex as a reference.

An early access release was published on Steam in September 2023, which was described by PC Gamer as "one of the best shooters you can play right now". According to Team Fortune, the game was "rejected" by Steam that September due to a "disgusting" scene they had included, and also because the company disagreed with a sexual assault content warning by the developers. They stated that they intended to apply to have the game included on the platform again.

›Story

Discover the quiet dystopia of Fortune's Run, where food is free yet people starve and every living soul on New Zabra is bought and paid for by off-world interests. A classic FPS with undertones of role-playing in the spirit of Deus Ex and EYE: Divine Cybermancy, featuring the campy tone of space operas and titles like Metal Gear Solid.

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Reception

In a 2022 preview, PC Gamer compared the game to Star Wars: Jedi Knight series and said: "I crave more of this world, the game's fantastic imm-sim-lite exploration, and its arresting sword fighting combat." In 2023, PC Gamer wrote: "The mission-based structure it's started with strikes me as a rare great fit for an early access drip feed of new stuff⁠—episodic, like what IO Interactive initially attempted with its Hitman reboot series, and I can't wait to see everything else this ambitious game has to offer." Multiplayer.it played the demo version and said that while the gameplay mechanics are not entirely original, they are varied enough to make the gameplay feel fresher than other games in the genre.