Deep Rock Galactic Season 7 Release Date: What's Confirmed

Deep Rock Galactic Season 07, "Contingency Protocol", is due in December 2026, but Ghost Ship Games hasn't named a day yet. The studio says it is "aiming for a release date somewhere in December 2026", and its roadmap lists the season for that month. Here's what's confirmed about the date, the content and the price, and what isn't.

When does Deep Rock Galactic Season 7 come out?

In December 2026, with no exact date announced yet. Ghost Ship confirmed the season at its Big Break Showcase on 29 September and gave December as the target. On 12 November the studio posted a wordless teaser on Steam: a cave full of floating rocks and drifting debris, which fits the season's story about gravitational anomalies. It didn't come with a date, so for now December is all there is.

Ghost Ship also calls everything shown so far a work in progress that "may be subject to change".

Is Season 7 free?

Yes. Ghost Ship says Season 08 will be "completely free" like every season before it, and Season 07 comes with "an entirely new, completely free" Performance Pass of unlockable rewards. The paid part comes later: a separate expansion DLC planned for summer 2027 (see below).

What's in Deep Rock Galactic Season 7?

Ghost Ship has listed the headline features:

About 20 new overclocks, this time for everyone's secondary weapons, including Neurotoxin Minelets, Dragonfire Shells and Dismantler Rounds.
A revised perk system: 11 new perks, some old ones reworked, a new Perk Maintenance system that works like Weapon Maintenance, and Perk Proficiency slots. Once you've unlocked every perk, those slots take your spare perk points in exchange for very small stat boosts, which fixes the pile of unspent points longtime players sit on.
Tattoos: a new creature, the Kadoc Inker, hides in the caves. It's passive and can camouflage itself, and its ink sacs are what you use to get your dwarf tattooed.
Traversal tool paintjobs, so your traversal tools can match your outfit or get a look of their own. Ghost Ship says these will likely tie into the Performance Pass.
A new season event: drop pods are crashing because of the gravity anomalies, and you're sent to the crash sites to recover their Memory Cores, where gravity "may still be a bit wonky".
A new Performance Pass, with the Ironclad Tactical weapon framework as its signature reward.

The usual quality-of-life tweaks and bug fixes come on top.

What comes after Season 7?

Season 08 and a paid expansion DLC, both in summer 2027 and released together. Ghost Ship says Season 08 will "likely be one of the smaller ones" but still free, and that it hasn't shared details of either yet. Ghost Ship calls a paid expansion "a first for us" and says free content updates will continue.

The studio's roadmap for the year also includes the spin-off Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core's Update 3, which arrived in November, then a Rogue Core Update 4 and a new Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor DLC, both without dates.