Buy Once, Kill Forever

Y2Kill is built around a single, escalating night that never ends. Players fight through relentless waves of the shambling dead, chaining kills into screen-shaking combos, vacuuming up cash and XP, and leveling up mid-run by drafting upgrade cards that transform a build from office temp to walking apocalypse. When the rage meter fills, a single blast deletes the entire screen. There's no loading bar and no mercy.

Every dollar looted matters. Weapons are permanent unlocks with price tags that mean something — from a trusty shotgun all the way up to the one-million-dollar rocket launcher. Stand in your own fireball. Smile. Throw grenades and molotovs while your gun never stops barking.

The City's Great Monsters

Beneath the endless horde wait the BOSS ARENAS, where players face the city's towering horrors — The Butcher, Mother Hydra, The Pale King, and Apex Rot — each on a speedrun clock, each backed by an endless swarm, and each first kill paying out a fortune. Victory grants permanent trophies that change the game itself: a 1,500-HP butcher's wagon that plows the streets and hoovers up cash, a rage blast that summons money-fetching minions, a fourth upgrade card on every level-up, and NIGHTMARE runs that start deep and pay out even deeper.

One Hundred Ways to Finish the World

A full board of 100 in-game challenges — every one mirrored as a Steam achievement — dares players to reach wave 100, kill one million zombies, put ten thousand rockets into the problem, and beat every boss in under two minutes. Die a hundred times and there's an achievement for that too. It's 1999; Deathbat respects commitment.

Key Features

• Arcade top-down zombie survival in a drivable city frozen at midnight, 1999
• Roguelite runs with in-run card builds and permanent account progression
• A permanent weapon arsenal topping out at a one-million-dollar rocket launcher
• Boss arenas with speedrun timers, huge bounties, and permanent trophy rewards
• 100 in-game challenges, all mirrored as Steam achievements
• NIGHTMARE difficulty for the certifiable
• Single-player, with Steam Achievements and Family Sharing support

Pricing & Availability

Y2Kill is available now:

• Steam (Windows & macOS) — $3.74 (25% off $4.99, introductory offer through August 30): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3552780/Y2Kill/
• itch.io — free / pay what you want: https://deathbatstudios.itch.io/y2kill

About Deathbat Studios

Deathbat Studios is an independent game developer building arcade-flavored action games with teeth. Y2Kill is its debut title.