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Abort, Retry, Fail

Abort, Retry, Fail is a top-down roguelike action adventure in which you play as a lazy programmer that has to generate his own weapon and shoot his way through hordes of enemies. Are you brave enough to help him escape from computer hell of Windows 98?

★ MAGIC RUNE STONE ★ BIO PROTOTYPE ★ DESKTOP SURVIVORS 98 ★ SPELUNKY ★ DEAD CELLS ★ LUNAVANIA ★ CURSORBLADE ★ SKUL: THE HERO SLAYER ★ RAM: RANDOM ACCESS MAYHEM ★ BONERAISER MINIONS ★ 暖雪 WARM SNOW ★ HELL MAIDEN ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Magic Rune Stone

79% 👍 OF 443
About This Game

This is an action rogue-lite adventure game where you will play different roles with different equipment and blessings.You will constantly challenge powerful enemies and kill bosses. The game comes with a "Survivors Mode". One game, double the fun. I hope you like it.

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Bio Prototype

89% 👍 OF 669
Bio Prototype
About This Game

A wave of irrational experimentation rushes toward you. Hurry up and mutate! evolution! Become scarier monsters than them! Use flesh and blood to bloom a way of survival! 24 characters, more than 80 kinds of organs, and endless build combinations!

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Spelunky

92% 👍 OF 16K
About This Game

Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

In this game, you can…

  • …set off a chain where a boulder wrecks the room, releases spiders, and ends by enraging a shotgun-wielding shopkeeper hunting you.
  • …kill a giant spider to get sticky webbing that makes bombs attach to walls, treasure, or monsters that can chase you.
  • …play a daily run where everyone gets the same level generation and competes on that exact one-shot seed.
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Dead Cells

97% 👍 OF 182K
About This Game

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

In this game, you can…

  • …start as a headless corpse piloted by a green blob, die, then hop into a fresh body and grow yourself back before the next run.
  • …unlock permanent movement powers like wall-running, teleporting, and growing vines, then use them to open areas that were impossible before.
  • …grab one random drop mid-run and suddenly rebuild your whole combat style around poison, bleed, traps, backstabs, or a totally different weapon.
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Lunavania

88% 👍 OF 1.1K
About This Game

Lunavania isn't just about high-octane combat. Enjoy base building, decorating with a variety of furniture, befriending NPCs, farming, and fishing. These features add greater depth and variety, offering a chance to savor life on the Moon beyond the battlefield.

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Skul: The Hero Slayer

93% 👍 OF 57K
About This Game

Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.

In this game, you can…

  • …rip off your head mid-run, put on a new skull, and instantly fight with a completely different moveset.
  • …find a skull that lets you ride a motorbike through rooms while whipping enemies with a burning chain.
  • …upgrade a skull you found as a common drop until it evolves into a top-tier, endgame-ready form.
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Boneraiser Minions

97% 👍 OF 4.3K
About This Game

Amass an army of undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways! In this gothic auto-battler rogue-lite Survivor-like, use the bones of slain heroes to raise your minions, collect relics and spells, and unlock meta upgrades, all to survive King Gigald's crusade!

In this game, you can…

  • …merge and evolve multiple minions into completely different monsters, like a piston guy and a knight becoming a witch, then a shockwave-firing shark.
  • …make the run harder on purpose by empowering enemy factions so you get more bones and better rewards when you survive.
  • …play hidden bonus modes, including a full card game and a mode where you keep looping runs after beating the king with your minions intact.
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暖雪 Warm Snow

93% 👍 OF 39K
About This Game

'Warm Snow' is a Rogue-like action game with a background set in a dark fantasy world, where the eerie 'Warm Snow' holds sway. You will play as the Warrior 'Bi-an' on a crusade against the Five Great Clans, in order to save a world teetering on the brink of destruction.

In this game, you can…

  • …turn your swords into wine, soak enemies with it, then ignite the alcohol so the blades start doing damage.
  • …remove your dash for extra stats, then use a gourd to douse enemies in alcohol and keep igniting whole crowds.
  • …block specific relics and swords in the hub so future drops are more likely to feed the build you want.