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Arcane Alpacas LLC · Published by MicroProse Software · Official site ↗
Content notice: Frequent violence and blood, and mention of drugs.
Very Positive — 83% positive (895 reviews) · 50 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Dagger Directive is a tactical FPS that allows you to approach each mission in your own way. Select equipment, decide the time of day, then move methodically to complete your mission. Enjoy the modern mechanics and old school graphics as you fight across a variety of missions and environments.
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Dagger Directive challenges you to craft your own approach in this 2026 action game from Arcane Alpacas LLC. Choose your gear, set the time, and navigate through diverse missions with precision and strategy.
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About the Game
You are a member of Task Force Dagger, an elite international special forces unit. Your missions take you across the globe—through frozen coasts, dense jungles, and war-torn cities. In Dagger Directive, tactical freedom is everything: pick your loadout, choose the time of day, and decide whether to strike hard and fast or move like a ghost.
Every mission is yours to shape.
Fight across three full campaigns, each set in a distinct region with its own atmosphere, enemies, and tactical challenges. Disrupt an eco-terrorist operation in the frigid Bering Sea. Battle organized crime across the volatile South Pacific. Crush an extremist uprising in Eastern Europe.
Each mission offers a different tactical sandbox, with objectives you can approach from multiple angles.
Gear up from a robust arsenal of 25+ weapons, each customizable with a wide range of attachments. Whether you're breaching doors with an underbarrel shotgun, clearing angles with suppressed SMGs, or picking off targets at extreme range, the armory has you covered. Supplement your firepower with drones, tripwires, grenades, and mines, and experiment with combinations that suit your style.
Dagger Directive blends modern game feel with grounded mechanics. Every bullet and piece of shrapnel has weight, velocity, and trajectory—simulated in real time. Adjust your scope for distance, lead moving targets, and respect the chaos of ricochets. Even grenades scatter deadly fragments that obey real physics.
This isn’t just spray and pray—it’s precision under pressure.
Each mission takes place in a large open area with multiple entry points, dense foliage, and tactical verticality. Control the environment by shooting out lights, hiding in tall grass, or stalking through shadows. Select the time of day before each op—just don’t forget your NVGs if you’re going in after dark.
The battlefield is a tool, if you know how to use it.
EARLY ACCESS CONTENT
The Early Access version of Dagger Directive is already packed with depth and variety:
A 15-mission campaign that spans all three global theaters, offering replayability through multiple tactical approaches.
Full co-op multiplayer, so you and your squad can coordinate, flank, and execute missions together.
Over 25 weapons, dozens of attachments, and a wide variety of tactical gear—already giving you the tools to play your way.
A broad range of tactical equipment including deployable drones, anti-personnel mines, and multiple grenade types, adding layers of strategic options.
COMING IN FUTURE UPDATES
Post-launch development will expand both depth and customization:
A mission editor with full Steam Workshop support, allowing players to build and share their own operations.
An expanded tutorial system that dives deeper into advanced weapons, tools, and stealth mechanics.
A powerful Free Play Mode, where players can spawn enemies, allies, vehicles, and gear to experiment or create their own combat scenarios.
Modding support for weapons and gear, empowering the community to add entirely new content to the sandbox.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11
- Processor: Amd Ryzen 5600g
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Amd RX Vega 7
- Storage: 20 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or Windows 11
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
🛠️ Hotfix 1.0.2 is LIVE!
Hello Again!We have continued to work on bugs that you have brought to us. We did have some lingering issues when we released Hotfix 1.0.1, however, we didn’t want you to wait any longer for the fixes that we did make. We knew we were going to keep working and work on remaining issues. With the communities help to identify debugging some of those pesky problems and new bug reports after Hotfix 1.0.1, we think we have really got the game in a more stable place. Some bug fixes we want to highlight are:The Humvee’s showing up with no weaponsThe “Try Try Again” achievement not triggeringAn AI alert range bug not working properly for some silenced weapons. (We made sure to do an additional pass to verify all suppressors are working as intended) That being said, we also wanted to take a moment to provide more information about the design choices for how silencers work in the game. We have seen many conversations and points of feedback for how people think they should work. So we wanted to clear some of that up.Many games reduce gunshot audio to a soft "click" or a whisper, letting players fire nearby enemies without alerting anyone next to them. Silencers in Dagger Directive work closer to how they do in the real world. It doesn’t completely remove the sound from happening, it just muffles it. Realistically, you would still hear the mechanical clicking and movement of the gun's internal parts, like the firing pin hitting the primer. The AI’s reactions were designed so they have a significantly reduced chance to hear your weapon when you shoot a silenced weapon in their vicinity. This felt like the best option for the games play style. We are continuing to look at your feedback and reports while we works towards the next update.Below is the full list of adjustments and bug fixes included in this hotfix. Change LogNotes:AudioFurther improvements to suppressor audio for various weapons.GeneralAdded additional places where loadouts get saved.Added moderation for lobby naming ...Read full article on Community Announcements (Community Agent)AnnouncementsOfficial
August Dev Blog - What's next after 1.0
August has been an absolutely wild and incredibly rewarding month for the team. After months of building, polishing, and testing, Update 1.0 finally went live. A huge milestone for the entire project. Launch week was fast, chaotic, and honestly pretty magical. Within hours, you all were diving into the new content, stress‑testing systems, and sending us a flood of reports, clips, and reactions. Right on the heels of launch, we pushed out Hotfix 1.0.1 to address the most urgent community reported issues. Your feedback helped us zero in on several bugs and edge cases we couldn’t have caught. We still have a few lingering issues on our radar, and the team is already deep into working on Hotfix 1.0.2, which should clean up some remaining problems and smooth out the overall experience. But the biggest highlight of the month? All the new players. Seeing so many new people jump in and watching returning players share tips, celebrate wins, and welcome newcomers, has been energizing in a way that’s hard to put into words. Watching streams, reading your comments, and seeing people genuinely have fun in the world we’ve built is the kind of thing that keeps us going. We feel genuinely grateful to be able to bring these moments to you. Thank you for playing, thank you for sharing your feedback, and thank you for helping shape what this game is becoming. We’re not slowing down and we can’t wait to talk about what’s next.What’s NextOur next priority is getting Hotfix 1.0.2 out. We are hoping to have it ready to release in the next week or two. This should help put the game in a stable place for players while we jump to working on Free play mode. Free Play ModeThis Mode gives the host player, whether solo or co‑op server host, a suite of tools to modify the game instance. You’ll be able to customize encounters, tweak mission parameters, and create unique scenarios every time you load in.If you’ve ever wanted more control over the battlefield or wondered how you’d fare against situa...Read full article on Community Announcements (Community Agent)Patch NotesOfficial
🛠️ Hotfix 1.0.1 is LIVE!
First, we want to say a sincere thank you to everyone who jumped in and joined us for the 1.0 launch. Seeing the surge of players log on, share their excitement, and dive into the game was an incredible moment for the team. Watching your reactions, comments, first impressions, and all the chaos that comes with launch day was truly rewarding. As soon as Update 1.0 went live, we rolled straight into bug‑fixing and stability work. Your reports, screenshots, and detailed breakdowns helped us track down issues quickly and get improvements out faster. We appreciate everyone who took the time to send in bug reports or worked with us directly to troubleshoot the problems you were experiencing. We’re continuing to monitor incoming reports, so please keep sending them our way. You can read the full list of changes below for Hotfix 1.0.1, covering every fix, tweak, and improvement that went into this update. Change LogGeneral Improved the performance of the AH64 strike.Added “Disable Disruptive Effects”, a setting to disable the fog/snow particles on “All Down Hill From Here”. This may get other effects added in the future.Disabled information logs.GraphicsAdded new setting, GPU Occlusion Culling. The default is “On” except for Intel integrated GPUs. If you have an Intel integrated GPU and are experiencing rendering issues you need to make sure this setting is Off. Intel Dedicated GPUs work fine with this setting On.Save/LoadImproved error handling while saving and loading to reduce the possibility for one entity breaking it completely. NetworkingIncreased initial connection timeout from 10 to 30 seconds to provide additional time for clients to connect and the server to respond. This may help with the reports of failures to start a server or connect to a server.UIThe Mission, Loadout, and Workshop UI around the ship will turn on and off as you move in and out of the rooms. This prevents the UI from drawing unnecessarily. Bug Fixes:AI Fixed an issue with pathfinding that could...Read full article on Community Announcements (Community Agent)Patch NotesOfficial
🚀 Early Access Complete - Update 1.0 is Live!
Dagger Directive Update 1.0 marks a major milestone for the game. With the depth, stability, and feature set now in place, “Early Access” no longer reflects what the experience offers, so we’re officially calling this our 1.0 release. Players now have 54+ weapons, 20 missions, and a wide range of systems to explore. Over the past months, we’ve dedicated significant effort to improving performance, accessibility, game design polish, and multiplayer networking. We’ve also expanded our UGC toolset, giving creators even more ways to build unique experiences. This update introduces the next campaign chapter, new weapons, new cosmetics, and additional content across the game. While Update 1.0 concludes our Early Access period, it does not mark the end of development. We still have content in the pipeline and will continue monitoring your feedback, bug reports, and suggestions. For the complete list of changes, adjustments, and fixes included in Update 1.0, please refer to the detailed change log below.New WeaponsMK-18 Rifle in Black, Green, TanM17 PistolM32 Grenade LauncherM32 ScopeP90 SMGM7 Rifle with Scope & SuppressorXM8 Rifle with Grenade Launcher & ScopeM2 Machine GunMK19 Automatic Grenade launcherNew Campaign - Shadow StrikeThe 4th campaign in Dagger Directive series has been released. You will have new objective types and environments to experience. This campaign focuses on objectives to take down an insurgent Shadow named Shadow Front. Across five missions, you uncover a conspiracy stretching from Tajikistan to Afghanistan to the UAE and finally to a private island in the Persian Gulf. What begins as a simple rescue operation spirals into a multinational effort to stop a manufactured war, dismantle a mercenary network, and eliminate its architect.New AchievementsA new set of 25 achievements has been added to Steam, bringing the total from the original 25 up to 50. The new batch covers a wider range of gameplay behaviors, progression milestones, and challenge‑orien...Read full article on Community Announcements (Community Agent)AnnouncementsOfficial
July Dev Blog is Now LIVE 📽️
Hello Everyone, We have a lot of exciting news for you this month! We are going to unveil additional the remainder of the features going into Update 1.0. New weapons, air strikes, cosmetics, and more. We also have some status updates related to other future and current features for the game. We are going to kick this off with a major announcement. Update 1.0 will be released in less than 3 weeks! Let’s go over the remaining features that will be coming with this release. New WeaponsIn addition to the weapons we showcased in the June dev blog. We have four more.M7 Rifle with Scope & SuppressorXM8 Rifle with Scope & Grenade LauncherM2 Machine GunMK19 Automatic Grenade launcherThis will bring you to having a total of 51 weapons plus 3 mounted weapons (2 grenade launcher attachments and 1 shotgun weapon attachment that can be considered weapons as well). That is a huge arsenal to choose from when making customized loadouts for each mission. New Air StrikesIn addition to the new weapons and attachments, you will also have other new tools while you are out on the battlefield. There will be two new types of airstrikes that you can call in to help assist you.A-10 Warthog Air StrikeA single pass with the 30mm auto cannon. The area is small but the rounds have high penetration and damage.AH64 Apache Air StrikeThis will hover over a location for 2 minutes firing the 30mm cannon at any targets it sees. With the new types of environments that are going out, these are going to be extremely useful to being successful on your missions.New Campaign MissionsIf you have been following our social accounts you have seen some of the photos of he new campaign map locations. If you haven’t seen them yet, you view them here X, Instagram, BSKYYour next 4 Missions will be the following:Risky RendezvousAll Down Hill From HereFortress FiascoDiplomatic DefenseIsland IncursionWe don’t want to spoil too much about what the details will be for these missions. What we can say is that there are new o...Read full article on Community Announcements (Community Agent)
