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Star Fox like shooter Whisker Squadron: Survivor just added a campaign mode to blast through

By Liam Dawe, 20 Jun 2024

Taking Star Fox and putting the survivor-like spin on it with lots of upgrades and repeat runs, Whisker Squadron: Survivor has levelled up with a new campaign mode that's really worth a go.

Swap flesh with fallen enemies in the weird upcoming co-op action game SWAP/MEAT

By Liam Dawe, 19 Jun 2024

SWAP/MEAT has a really fun idea where you (and hopefully some friends) become Meat Scientists. You go planet-hopping to steal the meat of strange creatures and turn their flesh into your own body parts.

Terrorformer TD is a tower defense roguelite with a map you terraform as you go

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jun 2024

With a map that erodes and grows as the game progresses, Terrorformer TD puts a rather unique spin on the tower defense genre.

Build up, command and fight with a big walking colony in Trailblazers: Into the March

By Liam Dawe, 7 Jun 2024

Another one shooting to the top of my wishlist from the Guerilla Collective Showcase is Trailblazers: Into the March, I've not seen a colony-sim strategy game quite like it.

BloodDome99 is 80s arcade gaming meets modern horde-survival bullet-heaven

By Liam Dawe, 6 Jun 2024

BloodDome99 from Halftone Gaming is what happens when you turn the popularised horde-survival from Vampire Survivors and put a really retro spin on it like something out of an arcade machine.

Steampunk auto-shooter Airships: Lost Flotilla demo expanded - get an exclusive airship

By Liam Dawe, 5 Jun 2024

Airships: Lost Flotilla is steadily building up to be one of my favourites in the auto-shooter bullet-heaven survivor genre. Now there's an expanded demo and I've got a special code for you.

Physics-based roguelite bullet-hell Cosmo Rider improves Steam Deck controls

By Liam Dawe, 28 May 2024

Cosmo Rider is a physics based roguelite bullet-hell-and-heaven horde-survivor action game. Upgrade your spaceship and traverse procedurally generated galaxies in this space survivors game.

Soulstone Survivors has a new character that looks suspiciously from Deep Rock Galactic

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2024

Soulstone Survivors, easily one of the best action roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven games (hi Vampire Survivors), has a new major update out with a suspiciously Deep Rock Galactic looking Dwarf in it.

Check out Motordoom, a freestyle sports survivor-like horde shooter

By Liam Dawe, 15 May 2024

So what do we have here then? Tony Hawk's Survivors? Motorbike Survivors? This horde-shooter bullet heaven genre mixture is never-ending (and I love it). Motordoom looks like pure insanity.

Blending dungeon-crawling with horde-shooters Gauntlet Of Power launches in June

By Liam Dawe, 15 May 2024

Solo developer Orangepixel is celebrating 20 years as a full-time game dev, with an announcement that Heroes Of Loot: Gauntlet Of Power is set to launch in June mixing together dungeon-crawling and horde-shooters together.

Kill your clone before they find you in DoubleWe

By Liam Dawe, 14 May 2024

Here's an upcoming sanbox horror game that has an amusing idea. You've been cloned! And you need to take out your clone before you're killed.

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a rad steampunk autoshooter - dev talks Linux / Steam Deck support

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2024

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a fun looking spin-off from the much loved Airships: Conquer the Skies developed by David Stark. A demo is available right now!

Contra crossover Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns DLC out now

By Liam Dawe, 9 May 2024

After recently releasing an update adding in trains and working doors, Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns is officially out now with plenty of extra content to play through.

Roguelite survivor game Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok has launched

By Liam Dawe, 3 May 2024

Another popular survivor-like roguelite has launched, with Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok leaving Early Access to the big 1.0.

Vampire Survivors gets a AAAA update with functional doors, a train and rail kart racing

By Liam Dawe, 1 May 2024

Poking a bit of fun at Ubisoft for calling Skull and Bones "AAAA", poncle have released a fresh free update to Vampire Survivors with the AAAA Laborratory update.

Pest Apocalypse is a new hilarious survivor-like game with a death-mobile

By Liam Dawe, 29 Apr 2024

Here we go again, I am about to be suckered into yet another survivor-like game. You love all of these as well right? Vampire Survivors, Deep Rock Galactic Survivor and more can move over and make room for Pest Apocalypse.

Dome Keeper is getting a major content update and multiplayer is coming

By Liam Dawe, 26 Apr 2024

An absolute indie gem released in 2022 is Dome Keeper from developer Bippinbits that has you mine underground for resources, while you also defend your dome above land from aliens. It's good fun and some big updates are on the way.

Trackline Express is a quirky, funny and unique journey

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2024

Trackline Express is a game all about getting your train across an unforgiving desert, and it's a whole lot of fun coming from Bubblebird Studio who also made the cute Haven Park.

Shoot through a mass of alien cells in Swarm Grinder 1.0 out now

By Liam Dawe, 23 Apr 2024

Swarm Grinder is a repeatable action roguelite where you control a little mech, as you battle your way through a big swarm of cells that spawn various types of enemies. An interesting one if you enjoy games like Vampire Survivors.