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Watch trailer on Steam ↗ROOTKIT://死 (ROOTKIT PROTOCOL DEATH)
Phiality, BREAKDEATH Games · Published by Phiality · Official site ↗
Last updated 10 Oct 2026
Cyberpunk extraction runner with bhop movement. Speed determines whether enemies can hit you. Race your own ghost through gauntlet levels, slide under barriers, chain crouch-bhops on ramps, and extract before the system catches up.
Action, Adventure, Early Access · 2026 · More free games
Navigate through deadly cyber corridors as your ghost in ROOTKIT://死, a 2026 action-adventure game from Phiality and BREAKDEATH Games. Race against the system with bhop movements, dodging enemies based on speed alone.
About this game
The system caught you mid-intrusion. PMC contractors are sweeping your memory address. The corridors are collapsing behind you.
You're faster than all of it.
ROOTKIT://死 is a cyberpunk extraction runner on Quake's air acceleration model. Speed is your armor
Every level is a gauntlet. Get from the start to the extraction point. Kill what's in the way or outrun it. Your best run records a ghost that races you on your next attempt.
You are...
You are a rootkit named << 死 >> (Death). You broke into the system and the system noticed. Now every process it owns is trying to kill yours. Armed contractors are patrolling the memory blocks. The corridors rearrange to box you in. Firewalls slam shut behind you. You run. You shoot what gets in the way. You extract before the system wipes the address you're standing on. And you most importantly consume every byte of data
Bhop, air strafe, crouch-slide, crouch-bhop at 100-tick physics. Hit a ramp right and you can multiply your speed tenfold.
Enemy accuracy degrades on a curve from your velocity. They call it out on comms as it happens.
Every run records a ghost. Race it on your next attempt. Watch any run back in first person with full bullet tracers.
Reactive skybox tracks kills, shots fired, and ghost position live. Music intensity driven by a heat system.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-7500 / AMD Ryzen 3 3100
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Duh.
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended for faster loading times
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K / AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD RX 5700 XT
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: Duh.
- Additional Notes: SSD recommended for faster loading times
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
ROOTKIT://死 - SECTOR 0 - DEMO OUT NOW
The demo is live NOW. ROOTKIT://死 - Sector 0 is free to play NOW! **Scoring hud was disabled in this trailer WHAT IT IS It's a first-person extraction runner. You spawn in a hostile sector with kill teams already closing in, and you reach extraction before the system locks you out. No sprint button, no dash, your speed comes from how well you handle the movement. It runs on the same air-acceleration model that made bunny hopping a thing in Quake. The catch: your speed is your difficulty. Move slow and every shot connects. Move fast and they're shooting where you were two frames ago, but you're also blowing past every weapon and medkit on the floor. The whole game is routing around that. Below 200 u/s - aim is perfect. Every round connects. This is what happens when you stop, land flat, or eat a wall. 200–450 - enemies track you but lead shots and miss around corners. This is where you can fight. Above 500 - shots start going wide. At 600, nothing connects, but you're also blowing past every weapon, medkit and ammo drop on the floor. Sector 0 is one block. About 20 minutes if you fight everything, under two if you learn the route. It's the first of six sectors. First block of many more... In the demo: Full bhop movement - no speed cap Ghost replays - every run records, race yourself OR others, you can also rewatch replays from the first person Reactive skybox and radio chatter that shift as the fight turns Steam Deck support Sector 0 - Block 0 - Address 0x00-0x03 Combinator Combo system WHAT'S NEXT I'm building this solo, and Sector 0 is the start of it. If you want to see where it's headed, the roadmap's here: phiality.com/roadmap If you play it, I'd really like to know what you think. Wishlist to follow along, and the Discord's open: discord.gg/YVFfueQnQH NERD STUFF - A FEW THINGS UNDER THE HOOD The shotgun spread is a real forensic ballistics model. Pellet dispersion isn't a random cone, it's the logistic response model from Rios, Thornton & Guarino's 1986 paper "...Read full article on Community Announcements (Phial The IVXX-ndth)
