Bullets & Boletes sends you into a guarded military forest somewhere in Eastern Europe with an unusual job for a shooter: picking mushrooms. It’s a single-player tactical extraction FPS from Bartoš Studio, a small outfit based in Trnava, Slovakia. Its first trailer went up on 22 October on the YouTube channel of the studio’s founder, Dalibor Bartoš. The Steam page has no date yet, but the studio’s own site is aiming for the first quarter of 2027 on PC. For now, the game’s Steam page and the studio’s website are the main ways to find out about it.
At a glance
Bullets & Boletes is a single-player tactical extraction FPS set in an Eastern European forest built around a military site.
On every run you gather mushrooms, materials and valuables, then bring them back to push the story on and build up your base.
Bartoš Studio is targeting the first quarter of 2027 on PC, through Steam and the Epic Games Store.
Mushrooms to smuggle out of a restricted military zone
The setting of Bullets & Boletes is a vast forest that hides a heavily guarded weapons research and testing facility. According to the Bullets & Boletes Steam page, the protagonist slips into the restricted area to find out what happened to his family. Soldiers patrol the forest, which is also full of traps, dangerous wildlife and plenty of other threats. You can sneak through or fight your way out, across both small and very large environments.
Each trip follows the usual extraction loop. You head out, fill your bag with mushrooms, materials and valuable items, then you have to make it back out alive with your haul. Whatever you bring home moves the story forward, expands your base and upgrades your gear. The studio sums up the risk itself in a single line: military testing grounds can be extremely dangerous.
One screenshot on the Steam page gives a good idea of what a mission looks like. At the top of the screen, a contract called Bay Bolete Delivery asks you to bring back ten bay boletes, with a counter and a timer. Another line points to a drone extraction at the south of the map, with its own countdown. If you prefer your solo shooting a bit more old-school, Cop Bastard, the retro indie shooter about yakuza, is another one to keep an eye on.
Bartoš Studio, a small Slovak team with a game jam track record
The person behind Bullets & Boletes is Dalibor Bartoš, better known as DExUS. He founded Bartoš Studio in 2017 in Trnava, Slovakia, and has been writing software tools for games since 2003, according to the studio’s about page. Among his programs, he lists a real-time picture converter and an anti-cheat tool called Universal Anticheat.
Since 2019, he has also taught game development tools, built around Unreal Engine, at the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius. His studio released Sociopat in 2024. He has picked up several game jam wins too, including first place at the Bratislava Game Jam 2020 with FakeSpotting and at the Facts Game Jam 2024 with Bearly News. On that list of projects, Bullets & Boletes now sits at the top, marked “2027”.
Bullets & Boletes is aiming for early 2027 on PC
On Steam, the release date of Bullets & Boletes still reads “to be announced”. The official game page on the Bartoš Studio website gives a clearer target: the first quarter of 2027, on 64-bit Windows, through Steam and the Epic Games Store. It’s single-player only, with no multiplayer mode.
As for languages, the Steam page lists English and Czech voices, plus interface text in French, German, Spanish and Slovak. The studio has already published a fairly demanding recommended spec. It suggests an Intel i5 or AMD R7 processor, 32GB of RAM and an Nvidia 3060-series card or a Radeon RX 6600 XT, with 8GB of storage, a figure the studio says it will confirm at launch.
Until then, the trailer posted on 22 October is the best way to get a feel for the game. It still had very few views on Wednesday morning, and no demo has been announced so far. If the mix of foraging and gunfire appeals, you can add Bullets & Boletes to your Steam wishlist to keep up with the studio’s next updates.
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