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Brotato is going to be my next horde-survival arena-shooter obsession

By Liam Dawe, Sep 30, 2022

If you don't hear from me much over the next week it's because I've discovered Brotato. Another in the list of wave-based horde survival games and it's honestly great.

Vampire Survivors 1.0 coming October 20th, seems a Linux port is still planned

By Liam Dawe, Sep 30, 2022

Developer poncle has now confirmed that Vampire Survivors will hit the 1.0 on October 20th. The sad news is their big game engine upgrade is not landing yet.

Don't Shit On My #!$@& Roof is the latest 2D horde shooter out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 27, 2022

You know me by now, I'm going to play everything I can that in some way resembles Vampire Survivors and this new influx of horde games and Don't Shit On My #!$@& Roof is the latest.

Vampire Survivors 1.0 coming soon along with a price increase

By Liam Dawe, Sep 16, 2022

Vampire Survivors, a simple game that exploded in popularity is set for the big 1.0 release soon and so the price will be rising next week.

Void Scrappers is my new favourite coffee-break game — try the free Prologue

By Liam Dawe, Sep 6, 2022

Void Scrappers Prologue, the new free version of the bigger upcoming Void Scrappers is out now and I had a chance to try it before release and came away very impressed.

Boneraiser Minions is probably my next 100 hour indie obsession

By Liam Dawe, Aug 24, 2022

Stop me if you've heard this before, but I've discovered another game that takes elements from Vampire Survivors and makes it nicely unique again. Enter the world of Boneraiser Minions.

Twin-stick shooter Titan Shell looks intense and will be supported on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Aug 16, 2022

Titan Shell is an in-development twin-stick shooter from Meatbag Studio that blends in features from roguelikes / rogue-lites to offer a pretty interesting experience not many such shooters give you.

Dead Cells has an exciting roadmap ahead as it's far from finished

By Liam Dawe, Jul 19, 2022

Dead Cells is the absolutely brilliant game from Motion Twin and Evil Empire. A rogue-lite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer and it's not finished, far from it.

Swirl W@tch is a blindly-vibrant upcoming stealth-action rogue-lite

By Liam Dawe, Jul 18, 2022

Sleeper Games have revealed their latest game with Swirl W@tch, a very colourful and bright stealth-action rogue-lite that will release later this year.

Void Scrappers is an upcoming space horde shooter inspired by Vampire Survivors

By Liam Dawe, Jul 8, 2022

Vampire Survivors has basically reignited the horde shooter genre now right? Developer 8BitSkull (Fates of Ort) has announced their next game with Void Scrappers.

Nomad Survival is another great cheap Vampire Survivors styled game

By Liam Dawe, Jul 6, 2022

Nomad Survival is an auto-attacking rogue-lite action game where you try to survive as long as you can, while you continue to buff up your character as you go.

AK-xolotl mixes the incredibly cute with the deadly in this rogue-lite shooter

By Liam Dawe, Jul 1, 2022

AK-xolotl is an upcoming rogue-lite that answers the question of: what happens if you gave an axolotl an AK? Someone must have asked that somewhere.

Dead Cells gets a huge free accessibility upgrade

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24, 2022

Dead Cells is a great game. Not only does it look great but the action is awesome. However, it is rather difficult and for some nearly impossible so the developers have put out a huge free upgrade to help more people play it.

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder to leave Early Access this 'Summer'

By Liam Dawe, Jun 21, 2022

Despot's Game: Dystopian Army Builder is a great little auto-battler with dungeon crawling that allows you to build up a truly ridiculous combination of characters and it's getting ready to leave Early Access.

Arthurian legend merged with sci-fi horror, The Hand of Merlin is out now

By Liam Dawe, Jun 17, 2022

Ready for another turn-based RPG with some rogue-lite mechanics, with the addition of a pretty strange storyline? The Hand of Merlin is out now with Native Linux support.

20 Minutes Till Dawn is like Vampire Survivors with guns — goodbye free time

By Liam Dawe, Jun 14, 2022

20 Minutes Till Dawn is what you get when you take the basic action-survival idea that Vampire Survivors made popular again, makes it really dark and puts a gun in your hand.

Dome Keeper is going to be my next craving, demo is great on Linux and Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Jun 7, 2022

Dome Keeper, previously known as Dome Romantik, has a brand new demo available and after testing it, I fear it's yet another simple but addictive game I'm going to wake up craving to play more.

Try out the demo for Ragtag Crew, a turn-based tactical rogue-lite

By Liam Dawe, Jun 1, 2022

With a demo arriving as part of the DreamHack Beyond event, Ragtag Crew seems like a promising upcoming turn-based tactical rogue-lite to sink your teeth into.

Crazy rogue-lite 'Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS' adds Linux support

By Liam Dawe, May 30, 2022

Up for trying out a new rogue-lite that looks completely bizarre? Wally and the FANTASTIC PREDATORS looks pretty hilarious and now it has Native Linux support.