A good accessory can do all of the heavy lifting in a cooperative game like Deep Rock Galactic. The dwarves toiling away in these deadly mines need a little something to set them apart from each other early on, after all. Luckily, there’s an accessory shop. It’s located near the terminal, which players will use to dispatch themselves on the pulse-pounding missions that make up the beating core of this game’s appeal.
Deep Rock Galactic is a lot of things, but it’s a team shooter first (a super zany one far from the likes of Rainbow Six Siege at that). Coming in at a close second, though, it’s a hilarious reprieve from the dour monotony of a day job. The game allows players to outfit themselves in light-hearted pop culture jabs and absurd eyebrows. A player looking to spruce up their avatar or squeeze out a quick laugh will benefit from most of the accessories Deep Rock Galactic has to offer.
10 Upbeat Youngling
These sideburns represent a hideous attempt that the player’s dwarf is making to appeal to their glory days. The sideburns are an inverted version of The Thickest, another pair of sideburns available at the accessory shop.
Where The Thickest is a sideburn style that exudes confidence, Upbeat Youngling strikes terror into the better natures of teammates with the good sense to avoid this pair of sideburns. The horrid audacity of these sideburns, however, will give the player’s dwarf a silhouette that will draw a smirk out of them like clockwork.
9 Field Repairs: Eyepatch & Skullplate
This game does not hide the callous indifference of the mining company towards the dwarves toiling in the mines. They’re dangerous, the dwarves are likely to die in their line of work and if players don’t make it back in time, their dwarves are left to their fates like certain unfortunate dwarves in the Dragon Age franchise. The field repairs are a sharp reminder of how disposable a player’s avatar is in the world of this game.
They also bring to mind the orcs in Lord Of The Rings. Combine that with the grizzled faces of these dwarves and this is a great accessory for the creative player looking to slip some cosplay into their games.
8 Sweep-Back
While Wario’s hair looks nothing like this, the exaggerated dishevelment (along with the flavor text) conjures up the garlic-loving image of Mario’s eternal tormenter. This explosive shock of hair lends the player’s dwarf an air of menace and wild energy; one usually reserved for the wacky and meme-worthy Wario.
A player looking for a way to create the most hilarious looking dwarf would do well to start with this accessory. It takes a decent amount of playtime to reach the rank requirement needed to purchase it, but the personality it gives to a player’s dwarf is well worth the effort.
7 MK2 Engineer Suit
The default Engineer suit is a pretty clear homage to The Engineer in Team Fortress Tactics 2. If gamers want to upgrade to a slightly beefier looking version of that suit, a mere 420 credits will do the trick. On the surface, this upgrade isn’t very funny, but the price alone is worth a good chuckle.
The joke is brief and the payoff comes early, with the cost being much lower than other accessories in the shop. It’s also the only upgrade for The Engineer Suit, before the design starts to steeply diverge away from Easter Egg territory and deeper into the design sensibilities of Deep Rock Galatic.
6 Extreme Protuberance
Massive animated eyebrows are simply hilarious. This is never more evident than in the case of the Extreme Protuberance. The player’s face is consumed by them. By matching these robust brow sweepers with a few other accessories, a player could transform their avatar into a glorified pickaxe-wielding head made entirely of hair.
Just imagine the kind of product and the amount of upkeep these ostentatious brow wagglers would take. It’s enough to bring a smile to anyone’s face on the victory screen, time after time.
5 The Swanson
Generations of stern fatherly wisdom have been distilled down into this mustache. Any player willing to put in the time to earn the credits needed to plaster this mustache on their dwarf’s face is going to find themselves amply rewarded. Or suddenly spouting sage wisdom and standoffish professional advice.
The Swanson pulls Ron Swanson right out of his place in Parks and Recreation and tosses him into the deadly alien mines, where he surely would feel more at home.
4 Greaser
This hairstyle will make every dwarf stuck working for Deep Rock Galactic wish they were getting paid enough to save up for a 70s era Earth car. The Greaser turns a player’s dwarf into a teenage hunk of a man, waiting to get in his car and ride away from it all.
The only thing needed to complete the look is a leather jacket and some sweet Grease-style tunes (neither of which are available, sadly). The Greaser is so out of place that it somehow seems like the only sensible choice for a player once they’re donned it. This hairstyle is just as powerful as it is hilarious.
3 The Gamekeeper
The dwarves are far from the height of a half-giant, but a player looking to allow their avatar a slice of the half-giant dream will find it in The Gamekeeper. This hairstyle (and the flavor text) conjure up images of Rubeus Hagrid.
This is the perfect opportunity for players to act out some alternate universe Harry Potter fanfiction. Who wouldn’t want to outfit their characters with their vision of deep space Hagrid? The ever-hilarious PS1 Hagrid would be proud.
2 Theatrical Bow
This exaggerated bow embodies the sense of humor of this game. The players have just fought for their lives while scrambling for a digital paycheck, scraping together every single gem they could while fending off hordes of hostile alien life and navigating unnatural antagonistic topography.
While their totals tally up and the game prepares to bombard them with the next pulse-pounding challenge, their dwarf isn’t finished yet. Battered and exhausted, he straightens himself up and dives into a deep and totally absurd bow.
1 Dual Drink Drop
The mic drop is the definitive way to let the world know a point has been made. In Deep Rock Galactic the dwarves work hard and they play hard. The Dual Drink Drop is the toughest, most effortless and funniest way for a player’s dwarf to stick it to their bosses.
They survived a difficult onslaught (apparently with a pair of beer steins behind their backs) and now they’ve come back out of the mines alive with their coworkers. The victory screen is the best place to chug the lukewarm drink and leave behind the ethereal steins, before sauntering over to the bar for another pair.
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