ROOK & BOLTKESTREL PROTOCOL
Rook in a red scarf and Bolt in a blue scarf survey a jungle fortress beneath the Rook and Bolt title.
ROOK & BOLT / KESTREL PROTOCOLTitle-screen key art

IN DEVELOPMENT · STEAM FIRST

TWO ROBOTS.
ONE IMPOSSIBLE MISSION.

An occupied coastline. An army of machines. A twin-stick run-and-gun built for solo and local co-op.

Join the Windows beta Get mission-ready

COMING TO WINDOWS / LINUX / macOS

01 PLAYABLE MISSION16 COMBAT SECTORS02 ROBOTS. ONE TEAM.STEAM FIRST

01 / BOOTS ON THE BEACH

WELCOME TO
BREAKWATER.

The Directorate has the coast.
You have other plans.

Concept art of the Breakwater beach landing and its coastal defences.
OPERATION 01 · COASTAL ASSAULTConcept art
YOUR FIRST OPERATION

Keep moving.
Make some noise.

Fight up through 16 combat sectors in an arcade run-and-gun built for independent movement, precise aiming and beautifully improvised chaos.

Break cover. Deploy a drone. Borrow a heavily armed vehicle. Then find a way past the four-legged Breakwater Goliath.

Learn the ropes
01 / FIREPOWER

Make every shot count.

Eight primary firearms, four throwables and a trusty unlimited-ammo fallback. Find your rhythm. Keep the combo alive.

02 / SUPPORT

A little help from above.

Launch a drone, take over the live feed or call in a strike. Recover your drone and get it back into the fight.

03 / MOMENTUM

One more sector.

Clear a checkpoint. Upgrade your loadout. Push toward extraction, one hard-won stretch of coastline at a time.

02 / BETTER TOGETHER

YOU BRING
THE BACKUP.

Great solo. Even better with someone
to blame for the explosion.

Share a screen, revive your partner and split the driving and gunner duties. The whole mission is yours to tackle alone or in local two-player co-op.

Set up your squad Game illustration

03 / THE ROAD AHEAD

THIS IS JUST
THE BEACHHEAD.

One playable operation.
A bigger world taking shape.

Concept of a fortified jungle river crossing.
PLANNED NEXT

Beyond the shoreline.

River crossings, occupied villages and the Hydra fortress.

Explore the development plan ↗Concept art
Concept of a desert convoy road between rocky canyons.
LATER CAMPAIGN

New fronts. New trouble.

Desert convoys and the Directorate’s urban strongholds.

See what’s on the horizon ↗Concept art

04 / YOUR NEXT MISSION

BE FIRST
ON THE BEACH.

Help shape Rook & Bolt. Sign up for the Windows beta, play the first operation and tell us what needs work.

PLANNED RELEASE PLATFORMS
  • SteamFirst release · Windows, Linux & macOS
  • PlayStation 5Planned to follow
  • XboxPlanned to follow
  • Google PlayAndroid · Planned to follow
  • App StoreiOS · Planned to follow
Release date to be announced.
BETA ACCESS / WINDOWS

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