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Metal Thunder puts you in a the gunner seat of an AC-130 with progression popularised by Vampire Survivors

By Liam Dawe,
1
This is quite a unique experience. Merging the progression system made popular by Vampire Survivors, with the aerial combat of Call of Duty's AC-130 missions. Metal Thunder definitely has a fun idea to it.
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Frontline Crisis is a tough but engaging mix of tower defense and top-down shooting with a big mech

By Liam Dawe,
1
Developer BCQT released Frontline Crisis earlier in August, and like a lot of smaller games it seems to have flown under the radar but if you love tower defense and top down shooting you need to play this.
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Glyphica: Typing Survival brings typing games into the survivor-like era

By Liam Dawe,
6
Survivor-likes, bullet-heaven horde-games are everywhere after Vampire Survivors showed up and now one developer is attempting to do the same with a typing game in Glyphica: Typing Survival.
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Brotato: Abyssal Terrors is going to ruin my free time, especially with co-op

By Liam Dawe,
3
Oh no, please no more, I have so little time as it is. Brotato: Abyssal Terrors has been announced as the first DLC for the excellent top-down arena shooter roguelite Brotato and it's full of goodies.
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Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess releases in June, inspired by classic Desert Strike

By Liam Dawe,
4
Anyone remember Desert Strike? Jungle Strike? Urban Strike? Well, Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is for you! Built like the classics, although it looks a lot more wild, like something out of a fever dream.
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Check out the awesome demo of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

By Liam Dawe,
3
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is an upcoming spin-off of the very popular online co-op mining action game Deep Rock Galactic, and now a public demo is up so you can try it too and you really should try this one.
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Base-building, tower defense and digging — Lumencraft has it all

By Liam Dawe,
2
Lumencraft is a pretty gorgeous top-down blending of base-building, where you need to set up defensive towers and a whole lot of digging.
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Tower-defense base-building mining game Lumencraft adds procedural maps

By Liam Dawe,
0
Lumencraft is a really interesting game that blends together elements of tower-defense, base-building, mining and a little Deep Rock Galactic in a top-down view. A big new release is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified with Native Linux support.
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Space Bandit is a top-down shooter with slick tunes and a Hotline Miami vibe

By Liam Dawe,
2
Space Bandit is a new Native Linux top-down shooter where you're running through cramped corridors on some space ship. It's got a whole lot of style and some great tunes too.
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Check out the demo for Space Bandit, a shoot 'em up roguelite with 'annoyingly clever AI'

By Liam Dawe,
8
Love a twin-stick shooter? How about one that features apparently clever AI? Check out Space Bandit, which has a demo available right now.
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Lumencraft blends top-down shooting, Tower Defense and a destructible environment

By Liam Dawe,
7
Lumencraft is a brand new release from developer 2Dynamic Games that is going to suck up far too much of my time, and might be a new favourite run blast through on my Steam Deck.
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Action-shooter The Ascent is Steam Deck Verified, adds a little tweak for Deck players

By Liam Dawe,
4
The Ascent is a solo and co-op top-down looter-shooter from Neon Giant and Curve Games. It got Steam Deck Verified, and so the developer made a fun little tweak for players on Deck.
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Death Carnival shows off the absolutely insane PvP mode

By Liam Dawe,
1
Death Carnival (previously known as BulletRage) is still in progress and a new trailer has just been shown off giving a little look into the PvP mode it will have.
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Incredible top-down-shooter Brigador gets a huge free enhancement

By Liam Dawe,
10
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition, a beautiful cyberpunk top-down shooter with awesome city-wide destruction has a big free upgrade out now for all players.
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Star Drifters talk their Linux sales for titles like Danger Scavenger, plus a key giveaway

By Liam Dawe,
12
Star Drifters recently did their first native Linux release with Danger Scavenger, so their Community & PR Manager got in touch to mention how it all went.
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Top-down tactical shooter RUNNING WITH RIFLES had a massive surge in players recently

By Liam Dawe,
7
After being available in some form since 2012, RUNNING WITH RIFLES seems to be finally hitting it big with a sudden surge of thousands flocking to the top-down tactical shooter.
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Death Carnival to have full cross-platform online play, developer very positive on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
1
Death Carnival, originally called BulletRage, is an upcoming fast-paced top-down shooter with extreme weapons & online multiplayer mayhem.
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Sky Fleet will bring together base-building, tower defense and a shooter in the skies

By Liam Dawe,
5
Building a city in the skies and defending it with towers, while you also ride an airship - Sky Fleet definitely blends a number of things together and it sounds great.
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Top-down tactical shooter RUNNING WITH RIFLES to get a German DLC

By Liam Dawe,
0
RUNNING WITH RIFLES, a popular tactical shooter from Osumia Games is set to get a second expansion this August focused on the Germans.
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You can grab the top-down shooter Geneshift FREE for a few days

By Liam Dawe,
7
Geneshift, an intense top-down shooter action game with a certain classic GTA2 flair thanks to the vehicle system is currently 100% off for a few days.
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