Den of Wolves is a co-op heist game by the makers of GTFO

Revealed at The Game Awards 2023
Den of Wolves is a co-op heist game by the makers of GTFO
Den of Wolves is a co-op heist game by the makers of GTFO /

Developed by 10 Chambers, Den of Wolves is an upcoming co-op heist game that was revealed at The Game Awards 2023. Played from a first-person perspective, the title is set in Midway City, a sort of capitalist utopia without any regulations and founded by big corporations. As a player, you’ll be building your reputation in the underworld of the city, which features a flourishing black market always in need for someone to take gigs of… a slightly risky nature.

You can watch the action-packed Den of Wolves announcement trailer below:

10 Chambers has been founded by former developers of Payday 1 and 2. Its debut game GTFO, which is also a co-op first-person shooter, fully launched in 2021 during The Game Awards after two years in Early Access. It has been widely lauded for its gameplay and horror atmosphere.

Instead of GTFO’s horror twist, Den of Wolves will be sci-fi themed, featuring a world that was recently devastated by an AI-induced economic crisis.

Studio founder and Den of Wolves game director Ulf Andersson took to the stage at The Game Awards 2023 to announce the upcoming title personally. In a statement given to the press, the developer said: “Coming from having worked on heist games in the past, much focusing on the classic bank robbery themes, the sci-fi aspect will let us elevate what a heist can be. You can only rob so many banks. Den of Wolves will have a wider range heisting – corporate espionage, sabotage, assassinations – really, the sci-fi theme lets us try many things.”

Den of Wolves artwork showing a masked gunmen in grey on a white background.
Den of Wolves features a heavy dose of sci-fi to freshen up the heist theme :: 10 Chambers / Level Infinite

Den of Wolves audio and narrative director as well as 10 Chambers co-founder Simon Viklung added: “The game isn’t open-world, but we still value worldbuilding enormously, and the narrative we’ve built around the island is vast. We want Midway City to feel like a believable city of the near future, where late-stage capitalism has gone rampant and corporations set the rules. As a player, you reside in the city’s underground domains without any real identity or papers, building your allegiances to become a criminal entrepreneur on Midway City’s black market of gig jobs.”

Den of Wolves screenshot.
10 Chambers / Level Infinite
Den of Wolves screenshot.
10 Chambers / Level Infinite

Den of Wolves will come to PC via Steam Early Access first, but a console port is already being planned. As of right now, there is no release window for the title.


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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg