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Kenley 孤城画角 · Published by Kenley 孤城画角, Paras Games
Content notice: Game contains mild violence
Positive — 92% positive (48 reviews) · 22 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
”Before the Dawn“ is a top-down view roguelite shooter game! In an infected city with endless deads, faced with the constantly coming Deads, choose different tactics and find the way out through overwhelming firepower!
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Adventure, Indie, Casual · 2024 · More under £5 games
Navigate through hordes of infected enemies in Before The Dawn, an adventure game from Kenley that combines roguelite mechanics with top-down shooter action.
About this game

Before the Dawn is a Rougelite shooter game. In an infected city riddled with Deads and Variants, you need to fight their way out of this hell and get rescued.

Faced with constantly coming Deads, take up your arms, unlock and use various Upgrades to get strengthened and rescued. Random maps, random rewards, random vehicles, each round of this game will bring diverse experiences in apocalyptic survival and fight.

You can unlock various characters- each owns their own personality and special skills. According to each character’s specialty and your preference, find your specialized and exclusive fight tactics.

Use various vehicles to explore the map and find out fortuitous rewards and surprise! You can choose to be a city ranger, or just drive over and kill all enemies to find the way out!

·More than 50 various Upgrades
·Boundless maps and rich rewards of exploration
·Destructible scene and various types of vehicles
·Choose your own fight pace and tactics. Fight with lightness and joy
·Use gift system and the shop to get strengthened

Four game modes, enjoy your adventure!
· Raccoon City: Find the signal tower and get rescued in traditional exploration mode!
· Raccoon City (Survive): Try to survive in a city full of zombies!
· Nest War: Attack the nest in the city and stop the enemy's offensive!
· Turret defense battle: Protect your safe house and try to hold on until rescue arrives!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: Dual Core+
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
A simple update patch
1. The brightness prompts of swarm flying insects have been improved, and they can now be more clearly detected. 2. Slightly enlarged the arrow UI of the main target prompt in the game 3. Fixed the bug that some options in the cursor setting and ranking panel could not be selected when controlled by the handle. 4. Improved the refresh probability of stores in the map. Now the fewer the total number of stores in the map, the higher the refresh probability. 5. Lowered the blood volume of the boss in the later period. 6. The difficulty of classic mode has been reduced. Now the threat level of classic mode increases more slowly and the enemy's HP increases less. 7. Increased the number of gold coins taken out at the settlement of each mode.Read full article on Community Announcements (庾楼月)AnnouncementsOfficial
Coming Soon! Watch developers play!
"Before the Dawn" is a top-down shooting + roguelike game. It will be officially launched at 14:00 (GMT+8) on April 18th. In a city with a zombie outbreak, upgrade weapons, drive vehicles, search for supplies, and activate communication towers to get rescued! Facing the zombie tide, build a strategic combination and use overwhelming firepower to open a bloody path! Players who like meat pigeon mowing games are welcome to come and try it out and buy it! We will broadcast live on Steam on April 18th, everyone is welcome to watch and discuss together! Live broadcast time: 14:00 on April 18 (GMT+8)Read full article on Community Announcements (庾楼月)AnnouncementsOfficial
Coming Soon! Watch developers play!
"Before the Dawn" is a top-down shooting + roguelike game. It will be officially launched at 14:00 (GMT+8) on April 18th. In a city with a zombie outbreak, upgrade weapons, drive vehicles, search for supplies, and activate communication towers to get rescued! Facing the zombie tide, build a strategic combination and use overwhelming firepower to open a bloody path! Players who like meat pigeon mowing games are welcome to come and try it out and buy it! We will broadcast live on Steam on April 18th, everyone is welcome to watch and discuss together! Live broadcast time: 14:00 on April 18 (GMT+8)Read full article on Community Announcements (ParasGames)AnnouncementsOfficial
Before the Dawn will be available on April 18th!
Before the Dawn will be available on April 18th! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43285726/0b065ff8fd9d5ef57346f2f1e932f8a7de9ea065.png In the game, players can unlock characters and skills with different characteristics. According to their characteristics and your style, match a variety of combat weapons and skills to find your own combat build! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43285726/b90ef1744ab8bdd2ac069ffaa68c218879911735.png Compared with the traditional roguelike games, Before the Dawn adds a vehicle system, allowing players to give full play to their imagination and build their own abilities with vehicles. Quickly find ways to strengthen yourself and escape in the apocalypse. There are various types of vehicles in the game, and different types have different advantages. Explore your favorite vehicles and go on an adventure! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43285726/ceac6a865db97d06c699b85042ff77cce1846487.png As a roguelike game, character growth within a single game is essential. Characters can choose their favorite genre through the free combination of skills, treasures, and weapons. Do you want to use a rocket launcher to blast zombies wildly, or use a shotgun to experience the thrill of critical strikes, or choose a laser gun to feel the power of technology. Or you can choose to engage in a head-on battle, so that can planted mines and used satellite rays to trick the zombies. The choice is yours! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43285726/71f08a3cf3650a7db17ae38f0c5b84c26c07431d.png In the city, you will also meet survivors like you, help them and let them join the team to fight together! At the same time, this game has four modes. In one round, you can experience traditional roguelike mode, tower defense mode, exploration mode and survivor mode. Different game modes can bring you completely different gaming experiences! There are various skill combinations in the game. If you learn the combination skills at the same time, you will also have unexpected ultimate skills, which can improve the character's abili...Read full article on Community Announcements (ParasGames)AnnouncementsOfficial
Before The Dawn Live
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