It's not really a roguelike: You just get to pick from randomized sets of buffs throughout a match. Otherwise, it's a third-person shooter that resembles Fortnite, but with hero characters who come with unique guns and abilities, and a low-stakes PvPvE extraction mode as its main attraction.

2K Games has unveiled its first-ever free-to-play live-service shooter, Project Ethos, via an announcement trailer and a community playtest that anyone can take part in.

Ethos, a free-to-play 3rd-person hero shooter. It’s entering a crowded and fraught marketplace, but the publisher says this is an “exciting evolution” of the genre. That evolution seems to take the form of some light roguelike mechanics.

K and 31st Union have announced Project Ethos, a new hero shooter roguelike that you could get a chance to playtest this weekend.

K Games has revealed its latest multiplayer shooter, Project Ethos, a mashup of genres ranging from extraction shooters to roguelikes.

Project Ethos is the latest game available in early access today from 2k's studio 31st Union. Project Ethos is a PvPvE extraction roguelike hero shooter that wants to challenge players to find and build their playstyle and challenge yourself in every extraction run.

BioShock and Borderlands publisher 2K has announced Project Ethos, a new "roguelike hero shooter" dreamt up by Michael Condrey, the former co-founder of Call of Duty studio Sledgehammer Games. Project Ethos is the first project from Condrey's current team 31st Union,