Annihilated Is Game of the Week #79: You Can Only Save One

One Broken Hero, Four Routes, and a Dungeon Built Around Consequences

Annihilated combines a difficult rescue mission with turn-based card combat that rewards breaking weapons.

Annihilated is Fix Gaming Channel’s Game of the Week #79. Released for PC on November 10, 2026, the story-driven roguelite RPG from Death Kumiai begins with a brutal choice: the hero’s party has been annihilated, and you can carry only one of its four members out of a cursed dungeon.

Our previous Game of the Week, EBBTIDE, focused on military tactics against zombie hordes. Annihilated revolves around a more personal choice: the partner you rescue determines the story route, conversations, and possible endings.

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You Can Only Save One

You play the only survivor of a rescue team sent into a cursed dungeon to find a missing party of heroes. The Hero can now say only “Yes” or “No,” the Mage has lost her magic, and the Warrior’s soul inhabits a doll. The Priest’s loss is left unnamed in the game’s opening premise.

Only one can leave with you. According to the developers, each route is a complete story with multiple endings, with roughly six hours of story per character. The full game includes more than 200,000 words of branching narrative and over 400 hand-drawn illustrations.

Annihilated mixes dungeon exploration with a branching story built around four possible partners.

Breaking Weapons Is Part of the Plan

The combat system has its own unusual idea: weapons are strongest when they reach their final use. Staggering an enemy and finishing them as a weapon breaks can trigger a Fatal Strike, instantly defeating the target and stealing its equipment.

Broken equipment also creates Curses. Those can be spent to Defy an unfavorable result, effectively rejecting a bad roll, or saved for crafting and progression. Death does not send you all the way back to the beginning either; the game lets you restart from the floor where you fell while converting accumulated resources into permanent growth.

Players can also choose between two battle styles. Resolve & Will uses a timing gauge, while Choice & Destiny removes the timing element and leaves the outcome to probability. Both are designed to carry players through the complete story.

Combat combines cards, weapon durability, and a choice between timing-based or probability-based outcomes.

A Small Team, Nearly Four Years of Development

Death Kumiai is a three-person development team: Sabotenshi handles illustration and scenario work, Suzuromono programming and scenario, and Chuchuyama backgrounds and UI design. Composer NINOMIYA Yuji created the score and supervised sound effects. Together, the four spent nearly four years bringing the studio’s first title to release.

Death Kumiai reported surpassing 200,000 Steam wishlists the day before launch. The game had been planned for July 22, but the team postponed it to Q4 to allow more testing and fine-tune combat balance.

Try the Demo or Jump Into the Full Game

Annihilated is priced at $16.99, with a 10% launch discount planned for the first 14 days. A free Steam demo remains available and runs through the first boss, The Outcast. Completed demo save data carries into the full version.

Annihilated earns our #79 spot for two specific reasons: four character routes shaped by who you rescue, and combat that rewards breaking a weapon at the right moment. The free demo gives players a way to try those systems before buying the full game.

Annihilated

Release: November 10, 2026

Genre: Story-driven roguelite RPG

Developer / Publishers: Death Kumiai / Death Kumiai, Flashlight Games

Platforms: PC — Steam

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