N64 GoldenEye 007-Inspired Agent 64: Spies Never Die Is Ready to Strike on August 11

Solo developer Replicant D6 just locked in the date after five and a half years of work. Agent 64: Spies Never Die hits Steam on Tuesday, August 11, 2026. This retro first-person shooter pulls straight from the Nintendo 64 era, specifically the objective-heavy chaos of GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark, and hands it over with modern online tools and a polished coat of paint. A free demo already sits on the store page so you can test the waters right now.

Secret Agent John Walter is the man in the tuxedo. His task, as you’d expect, sounds simple on paper but is completely terrifying in practice: stop arch-nemesis Dominic Pulp from blowing the entire globe to kingdom come. You can complete 14 one-time missions that will take you to city skyscrapers, nightclubs, museums, abandoned catacombs, and even distant alpine locations. Each one allows you to approach objectives in almost any sequence you see fit.

Grab some hostages, steal some top-secret plans, hack a terminal, or put on a disguise and walk past a lot of guys in uniforms like you own the place. Gunfights are fairly common here, as you’re constantly exchanging fire with hostile goons. Those guys flood in on you, and you have two options: let loose with some hip-fire or carefully line your sights and try to take them out one by one. There are pieces of body armor spread about for added health benefits. Your armament includes the typical suspects as well as a few extras, such as machine guns, remote mines, and futuristic plasma rifles that appear to have been taken directly from a dubious sci-fi film.


To add variety, there are three difficulty levels. Agent mode keeps things relatively simple, allowing you to get to know the maps. Special Agent adds a few more tasks and unlocks some new regions, but 64 Agent? That’s when things get brutal, as each chamber becomes a true test of your memory and ability to sketch quickly. See how quickly you can complete the objectives or perform additional side-trials to unlock a mode called Paradox Mode. That mode unlocks over 70 of the most absurd cheats and mods imaginable. You can make players stroll about with giant heads, disarm everyone with a few pokes, slow down shots in mid-air, disable reloads, change out your guns at random, and do about a dozen other things to transform a typical run into a complete free-for-all.


Then there’s online multiplayer, where you’ll team up with your friends to get some old-school couch multiplayer action going. Local split-screen for up to four players works exactly as it did on the N64. Online multiplayer supports up to eight human players and eight bots. You may also create custom lobbies to keep your chosen rule settings, such as team formations, gun loadouts, and all of your favorite Paradox modifications. There are four main game modes to keep things interesting for you. Classic Deathmatch is just a simple frag fest. Briefcase is a little trickier since you have to grab it and hang onto it for as long as possible to collect points while the other guys try to steal it away from you. Zone is king-of-the-hill style combat over control points that freeze in place if anyone tries to take them, while Challenges pits you against pre-set bots with specific score and time targets to beat. If you succeed, you’ll be rewarded with additional maps, character skins, and music tracks.


Controller support is standard, including both Xbox and PlayStation controllers. You receive Steam Cloud, Remote Play Together, and Easy Anti-Cheat right out of the box. The system requirements for Windows 10 64-bit are an Intel Core i5-7500 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 8 GB of RAM, and a GTX 1050 Ti. The storage needs are minimal, measuring only 4 GB. English, French, and Japanese language assistance is available from the start. The console versions have been planned, but we’ll have to wait to see when they’ll be available, much alone the specific release date…