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Backyard Bayou

Don't you hate it when horrors beyond human comprehension show up in the backyard? Grab the shotgun and clear them out. A fast, aggressive third-person roguelite shooter where items stack into ridiculous builds and the swamp never runs out of things to shoot.

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★ MEGABONK ★ HORDECORE ★ NOVA DRIFT ★ WINDOWKILL ★ TIME WASTERS ★ VAMPIRE SURVIVORS ★ HOLOCURE - SAVE THE FANS! ★ BONERAISER MINIONS ★ HALLS OF TORMENT ★ ROCKET RATS ★ DEATH MUST DIE ★ 20 MINUTES TILL DAWN ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Megabonk

94% 👍 OF 107K
About This Game

Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …bunny hop, slide down cliffs, use enemy knockback as a boost, and chain so much speed you're basically flying around the map.
  • …roll boulders into enemies, knock over towers, and use ramps and cliffs as part of the fight.
  • …push a movement build so fast the game can crash from the speed.
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Nova Drift

96% 👍 OF 14K
About This Game

Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …stockpile over 200 missiles and fire them all at once.
  • …become an ever-growing serpent that shreds enemies with its own body as it expands.
  • …convert your shield into a huge roving bubble that powers you up while you fight inside it.
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Windowkill

96% 👍 OF 3.8K
About This Game

Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …click a boss's X to kill it after it pins your window shut.
  • …fight bosses in their own separate windows, with bullets crossing the gap between them.
  • …earn perks that add a permanent new window, or turn a movable window into a damaging zone.
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Vampire Survivors

98% 👍 OF 267K
About This Game

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
  • …turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
  • …stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
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HoloCure - Save the Fans!

99% 👍 OF 40K
About This Game

Play as your favorite Vtubers from Hololive! Fight, explore, and clear your way through armies of fans and save them from their mind-control in this unofficial free fan-game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …find a Golden Hammer once per run, then fuse specific collabs and items into a super collab.
  • …step into a side mode where you fish, farm, cook, mine, woodcut, manage workers, and bring meals back as combat buffs.
  • …discover a full Jump King-style tower area hidden alongside the main roguelike mode.
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Boneraiser Minions

96% 👍 OF 5.4K
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!

Player reviews say 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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Halls of Torment

95% 👍 OF 31K
About This Game

Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …use potions to ban traits, double traits, keep traits for later, or reroll choices until your build clicks.
  • …descend deeper each run toward a specific Lord, then send unique loot back up so your next attempt starts with a different toolbox.
  • …manually aim your shots, beams, and cleaves.
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Rocket Rats

94% 👍 OF 2.7K
About This Game

Rocket Rats is a survivors-like game where you defeat cheese-based astral bodies in space – as a rat! Clear waves of enemies, collect cheese, upgrade your gear, and conquer the moon!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …pull a late upgrade that makes every temporary bonus you earned become permanent all at once.
  • …get so overpowered that you can stop moving entirely and just keep picking cards while enemies die around you.
  • …turn maxed-out upgrade pairs into rare combo evolutions, like poison arrows or stars that summon lightning.
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Death Must Die

90% 👍 OF 21K
About This Game

Descend the nether in search of Death himself! Choose from God-given powers to slay his hordes of minions. Unlock new heroes, collect powerful items and create game-breaking synergies in this roguelite hack and slash survivors game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …level up and have an item trigger literal Armageddon, flooding the screen with destruction.
  • …find gear that summons a permanent dragon to fight with you.
  • …stack a knight into eight revives by trading away most of your starting toughness.
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20 Minutes Till Dawn

90% 👍 OF 29K
About This Game

20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …stack freeze, burn, and lightning so burn detonations and screen-wide chain reactions start wiping enemies faster than you can track.
  • …build around emptying your clip, then cut your ammo to one so the on-empty effect triggers every single shot.
  • …reroll your level-up upgrade options once per level to force a specific build instead of taking whatever appears.
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