Judge a mod by its shape, not its power
A small, mediocre upgrade that plugs a two-cell hole is usually worth more than a great one that forces four empty cells elsewhere. Wasted grid space is the only real loss in Mycopunk.
Field guide / New Atlas
Every fungus
has a weak spot.
Mycopunk is a four-player fungus-clearing looter shooter from Pigeons at Play, out of Early Access on 20 October 2026. This codex tracks the parts the game does not explain: the unlock chain, the hex grid, and what 1.0 quietly changed.
- Employees
- 05 incl. Mycologist
- Weapons ranked
- 13 S → C
- Threat levels
- 07 1–7
- Steam achievements
- 48 8 hidden
Specimen 001
Pick a lane
Four ways in, depending on whether you just installed the game or you are stuck on a pattern that will not rotate.
Survive the first two hours
Three rules that decide whether the game clicks at hour two or gets refunded at minute forty.
Beginner · 8 minUnderstand the upgrade gridPatterns, rotation by rarity, and the reason your best mod will not fit anywhere.
Systems · 9 minKnow what every drop is forGats, Romphus, Gussula, Beezia, Yeuco, Saxonite — and which ones you are hoarding for nothing.
Systems · 7 minThe 1.0 unlock chain
Three of the strongest search terms for this game point at one loop: a mission, a rescue, an employee. They are not three pages — they are one cluster.
Step 01 · Mission
Expedition Alpha
New in 1.0. A rescue mission on the 1.0 content path — the patch notes name it, the achievement list confirms it, and the exact room order is still being verified.
Step 02 · EmployeeThe Mycologist
“A member of the first expedition to New Atlas after the fungal outbreak.” Rescued in Alpha, then playable with Sporelift, Fungal Skewer and Infection.
Three rules before you touch a grid
The most common complaint about Mycopunk is the first hour. Almost everyone who quits does it before hour two — and almost everyone who stays says the same thing about what changed.
Pick one axis by mission three
You can be a healer, a shield, or a bomb — and the game will let you try all three at once. Spreading upgrades across five directions gives you five invisible bonuses instead of one effect you can feel.
Do not play alone at the start
Solo enemies stay accurate at range and big creatures take forever without someone pulling aggro. Lower the threat level without guilt: the setting labelled “recommended” is not the easy one.
What is Mycopunk?
You are a robot reject hired by the SAXON corporation and dropped onto New Atlas to clear a planet-wide fungal outbreak. Missions are short, loud and built for four: you extract, you spend, you bolt more shapes onto your guns, and you go back down.
The hook is not the shooting — it is the grid. Every employee and every weapon has its own hexagonal upgrade board, upgrades arrive as patterns of cells, and the only rule is available space. The studio's own line is “whatever upgrades you can fit in are fair game,” which is either freedom or a trap depending on how you build.
It is also, by the numbers, a well-liked game with a divided one: Steam sits at Very Positive across 4,215 reviews, while the Simplified Chinese review pool (218 reviews in October 2026) sits near 48%. That gap is worth knowing before you buy.
- Developer
- Pigeons at Play
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Released
- 20 Oct 2026 (Early Access 10 Jul 2025)
- Platforms
- PC (Steam), PlayStation 5
- Players
- 1–4 online co-op · no crossplay · no split screen
- Price
- $14.99 · Steam −50% to 3 Nov 2026
- Reviews
- Very Positive (4,215)
- Completion
- 48 Steam achievements · 49 PS trophies
Patch watch
What changed most recently, and what 1.0 rewrote under everyone's builds.
Four fixes, two of them achievements
Cranius and Bunker Buster now unlock correctly. The relay-tower Fulfillment and the Saxito bag counter were also fixed. If you finished either objective during launch week and got nothing, this is why.
Patch notes ↗The fifth employee and a moon
Mycologist, the X11-B moon region, infusion that scales with pattern size, seven new weapon upgrades, eleven turbocharges, two renamed grenades, and a reworked HUB with hats. Your Early Access infusions did not survive intact.
What changed →How this codex is built
Every page lists what it checked and when. Where a claim comes from a single source, it says so; where it rests on none, the claim is not published — because a guide that guesses is worse than a guide that stays quiet.
- Primary sources
- Steam patch notes, PlayStation Blog, store listings
- Secondary
- Player testing, community wikis, guide sites — dated in-line
- Never
- Invented values, fake codes, or numbers no source shows
- Last sweep
- 23 Oct 2026 · patch 2.0.1
Frequently asked
The four questions that come up before anything else does.
Is Mycopunk crossplay between PC and PS5?
No. The 1.0 patch notes, the PS Store listing and the Steam page all leave crossplay out, and Steam does not carry the Cross-Platform Multiplayer tag. Steam players group with Steam players and PS5 players with PS5 players.
How much does Mycopunk cost?
$14.99 on both Steam and the PlayStation Store. Steam ran a 50% launch discount ($7.49) until November 3, 2026; the PS Store showed no launch discount. PS Plus Extra and Premium members get the PS5 version at no extra cost through the Game Catalog.
Can you play Mycopunk solo?
Yes — single-player is listed on both storefronts, and solo runs can be paused since update 1.6.4. It is markedly harder, though: enemies stay accurate at range and larger creatures are slow to bring down without someone pulling their attention.
Does Mycopunk have promo codes?
No. There is no code field in-game and no code channel from the developer or publisher. Searches for “mycopunk codes” are really about in-game keypads, server access codes and bunker switches.