ExeCo’s turn-based survival dungeon crawler pairs a grim rescue mission with dice-based gunfights, limited inventory space, and the temptation to stay out for one more floor.
A rescue mission leads straight to a human meat processing plant in Medium Rare, the turn-based survival dungeon crawler from ExeCo. A free demo is now available on Steam, and the studio’s October 8 announcement sets January 2027 as the release window for the full game. A new trailer accompanies the news.
In a world running out of resources, human beings have become a commercial food source. Your wife has been taken to a processing facility somewhere up a mountain, and her fate remains uncertain.
Reaching it means traveling through territory occupied by cannibals, infected humans, and mutated animals. The facility is also called ExeCo, giving the studio a particularly unpleasant namesake in its own setting.
Getting Home With Your Supplies Is Part of the Strategy
Exploration takes place on a grid-based map, moving between floors while managing the resources you need to keep going. You can extract to a base with what you have collected, or keep searching for a better haul. Returning also supports progression, as recovered parts go toward character and equipment upgrades. That gives you a reason to head home while an expedition is still going well.
Gunfights are turn-based and use a dice-based combat system, with weapon combinations that can help conserve resources.
Inventory management introduces another limit. Everything must fit in a single carrying case, with a spatial packing system that forces decisions about what deserves room and what gets left behind. Finding something useful does not automatically mean bringing it home, especially when space is already committed to other supplies or upgrade parts.
An 80-Minute Demo Ahead of Steam Next Fest
According to ExeCo, an average demo playthrough lasts approximately one hour and 20 minutes. The studio also says Medium Rare will participate in Steam Next Fest from October 19–26, with the demo available ahead of the event.
Medium Rare is targeting January 2027 on PC via Steam. You can try the demo now and wishlist the full game. Below are more details and the trailer.
GAMEPLAY
Medium Rare is a turn-based survival dungeon crawler. Move floor to floor through a grid-based map, making tactical resource management decisions, as you decide when to push forward and when to extract back to base.
STORY
Cannibalism has been industrialized. As the world’s resources run dry your wife is taken to ExeCo, the world’s most renowned human meat processing plant, somewhere up the mountain. Cannibals, Infected, and mutant animals are between you and it.
FEATURES
Turn-based gunfights – every bullet matters. Combat is dice-based and weapons synergize to make intuitive combos that could help you save resources.
Inventory Tetris – one case, never enough room. Decide what’s worth carrying and what gets left behind.
A brief respite – the one place on the mountain that isn’t trying to eat you.
Upgrades – haul parts home and upgrade yourself and your tools.
Extract or push deeper – leave with your haul, or gamble it for a richer one.
