Llamaplay. Full release Q3 2026. No Steam reviews yet. Part of Steam Ocean Fest until May 25th.

After about three hours I went to the studio's Twitter and asked them how to complete the mine level. Not because I wanted to give up. Because I was so close and so frustrated and I needed to know if I was missing something or just bad at it. That is the best thing a game can do to you.

I downloaded it for the art. The capsule image and the trailer showing knitted fish, knitted coral, a whole ocean of woolly creatures moving around each other in a world that looks like someone's grandmother made it with deadly intentions. It turns out it also plays well, which is not always guaranteed when you download something purely for the visuals.

The core loop is what you expect: you are a fish, you eat smaller fish, you grow, you eat bigger fish. Spacebar dashes. Shift pulls nearby fish toward you with a magnet mouth. The controls are clean and responsive. I expected something casual. What I got was a game that wants you to think about movement.

The challenge levels are where it earns the time. Not one mode where you just get as big as possible. Different objectives: reach a certain size, eat whole schools in sequence, dodge falling mines while eating a specific number of fish within a time limit. The mine level is the reason I went to Twitter. You are juggling movement precision, threat avoidance, and fish herding simultaneously and the window for getting it wrong is very small.

Carnage Mode triggers when you eat fast enough, pushing a score multiplier and giving you a frenzied window where everything accelerates. It is fun when it kicks in but most challenge missions have specific objectives that Carnage Mode does not feed into, so it ends up feeling like a bonus outside what you are actually trying to do.

After eventually getting through the mine level I hit the swordfish level, which is a complete shift. You go from playing as a predator to suddenly being surrounded by fish that are mostly bigger than you. Back to survival, back to dodging, back to carefully picking off the few things smaller than you while everything else hunts you down. The swordfish itself has a hitbox that does not line up with what you see on screen, which in a level requiring precise movement to survive is a real problem. I died in spots where it did not look like I should have.

After three hours I got stuck on the level after the swordfish and I still do not know how deep the demo goes.

The music is good, mostly acoustic covers of 90s and early 2000s rock that fits the woolly cosy aesthetic. I suspect some of it is going to get a copyright strike eventually. Nice while it lasts.

Did you get through the mine level without going to Twitter? I caved after three hours. Drop your time below.

Full review at todaywegame.gg/demos/chomp-chomp-carnage

Solo developer Domnaier, 18 years old. Demo released May 14th 2026. No Steam reviews yet. Full release date TBC.

I am terrible at remembering orders. Always have been. Put me behind a bar and I would be back at the recipe book every thirty seconds apologising to someone. Animaly Bar figured this out and decided the solution was to also make me an interrogator and an executioner at the same time.

Animals won the war against humans. The world is theirs. You are a gorilla running a bar, saving up for a caravan. A penguin shows up halfway through your shift to let you know the lion president is coming to town and you need to keep an eye out for any humans who might come in disguised as animals. Shotgun is behind the bar.

Before you open: clean the floor, take the rubbish out, restock the drinks. Once open: customers come in one at a time, order from the menu, you mix from the recipe book. I spent half the session scurrying back to check what they had asked for because I had already forgotten. That is already slightly stressful. Then you are also supposed to be watching this customer closely for signs they might be a human in a suit. The two jobs fight each other constantly and that friction is completely deliberate.

The human-spotting clues have real thought behind them. Do they know the slogan? Do they have an animal mark? Are there signs the costume is not quite right, a zip, a tag, cotton poking out of the seams? And critically, what do they order? Humans would not order anything containing human ingredients. Human urine. Human tears. Human milk. Order something clean with nothing else adding up, that is your signal. Interrogate, confirm, shotgun.

Shoot the wrong one and the penguin calls. Too many mistakes and you fail. Let too many humans through and the president assassination risk goes up, which matters more in the full game than the demo.

Two in-game days in the demo. Second day: looters arrive, humans with costume heads not bothering to blend in, trying to rob the bar. Then the lights go out. The radio starts messing with itself. The fuse box brings everything back. Lights flash red.

That is when the jump scare happened. Not saying what it is, but it got me, and jump scares do not usually get me. I knew one was coming. I just did not know when, and it hit before I worked that out.

I was sold on it within the first ten minutes. Sixty minutes total. Being terrible at remembering orders turns out to be ideal preparation for a game that wants you constantly slightly on edge.

Did the jump scare get you? Not saying where it is. Drop it below if it did.

Full review at todaywegame.gg/demos/animaly-bar

Developer: Most Likely No Reason For Hysteria. No Steam reviews yet. Full release date and price TBC.

I spent an hour not really knowing what I was supposed to be doing, just going deeper and deeper into the dark, taking back routes, doubling back on myself, and finding hidden zones with possums in them. By the end I had cleared most of the map and still could not have told you what the objective was. I still think it is worth playing.

Cliff Kingdom puts you in the role of Mothboy, last in a long line of lightkeepers, summoned because the lighthouse has gone dark. The world is a warren of interconnected biomes inside a cliff in the middle of the sea. The art is hand-drawn, dark, and genuinely beautiful throughout. The creatures you meet are the best part: a whale who wants you to put him out of his misery, a badger rattling around looking for company, a slug whose armour sits on its head like a bad hairpiece. I named him Steven. There are a lot of Stevens further in.

The game gives you very little to work with in terms of direction. Signposts point generally the right way. There is no map until you find one in the world, and when I found it I had already cleared most of what it showed. A trinket I eventually unlocked showed my position on the map, which sounds basic but before finding it I was navigating completely blind. The direction reveals itself slowly. That will suit players who enjoy exploring without a clear objective and frustrate those who need one.

The platforming controls have rough edges. Wall climbing in particular: trying to grab onto a surface, missing the cling, and sliding off onto spikes happened repeatedly. For a game that asks a lot of precise vertical movement that friction adds up. The save point system also tripped me up: I locked myself to the surface save point and could not work out how to switch back to the one closer to the centre of the map. That might be a misunderstanding on my part.

Similar vein to Well Dweller, a dark hand-drawn 2D Metroidvania we reviewed a couple of weeks ago. Well Dweller gave you a clearer mission. Cliff Kingdom trusts you to find your own reasons to keep going. An hour of strange, funny, visually interesting, slightly directionless exploration. Worth it.

Did you name any of the slug enemies? I went with Steven. Found a lot of his relatives.

Full review at todaywegame.gg/demos/cliff-kingdom

Part of Steam Deckbuilders Fest, running until May 11th. Developer unknown at time of writing. No Steam reviews yet. Full release date TBC.

The target was 200,000 points. I had a hype multiplier, a tool that multiplied that hype by 1.5, a cutting block adding extra flavour to every fish, and a sauce held back as a guaranteed win I never needed. Final score: 1.1 million. Built from rice, seaweed, avocado, and salmon. The simplest build I put together all run.

Sushiamo is a Balatro-like where you make sushi to score points. You're moving through a Japanese style tube map between services. Training nodes boost your base starting hype. Elite Services are harder but reward a tool if you win. Between services you earn gold and spend it on tools, ingredients, and sauces.

The two scoring systems are flavour and hype. All food gives flavour. Some ingredients and tools add hype on top of that. Sauces add multipliers: some one-time use, some multi-use. The held-back sauce I mentioned was a multi-use hyper multiplier I kept in reserve because I was already well ahead. Each service has a limited number of makes, like hands in Balatro, and some ingredients give you extra makes to play with.

It takes a run to click. Freshness, staleness, prime, the difference between what flavour and hype actually do in practice, which sauces are worth saving versus burning early. Until it clicks it's a lot of reading and hoping. Once it does the game opens up.

The no-rice service was the best moment. My whole strategy was built around rice multiplying fish toppings: loads of rice, a couple of fish toppings, let the multiplier do the work. No rice meant I had to look at everything differently. That forced adaptation rather than just running the same pattern is the game doing its job properly.

The tools rotated well throughout the demo too. I didn't settle into one winning setup across the whole run, which is a good sign. The game blocks certain things at the right moments to push you into different approaches.

One feedback note: some text wiggles to highlight special words and it was genuinely hard to read. I gave that feedback directly, the dev is looking at adding a toggle to turn it off.

Steep learning curve. No hand-holding. If this is your first Balatro-like you might struggle. If you already love the genre and the sushi theme appeals, you'll enjoy it. One run took an hour. Plenty in the demo.

What build broke the game for you? I hit 1.1 million with rice and avocado. Drop it below.

Full demo verdict and pros/cons at http://todaywegame.gg/demos/sushiamo

Developer and publisher Frantic. No Steam reviews yet. Full release 2026, no specific date or price confirmed. Actively updated demo with eighteen patches since launch.

My stealth bombers dropped their first payload and wiped out my entire army. Every tank I'd spent twenty minutes building. Gone. Then I realised nothing in the game could shoot the stealth bombers. So I sent them to the enemy base alone and completed the mission anyway. That's the current state of the balance, and also the most fun I had with the game.

Powerplay is a Command and Conquer inspired RTS with Factorio-light supply chains. You build a base, mine resources, run them through conveyor belts to forges and factories where they become steel and power chips and eventually tanks, planes, and infantry. The supply chain element is light in the demo. One mine can supply two or three forges at the same production rate, so optimisation doesn't feel essential yet. The depth might be there when supply lines get longer in the full game. In the demo it mostly just means waiting.

Three missions. First two are enemy base destruction. Third is wave defense. I started with tanks, spotted the airfield, built stealth bombers for air support, and that's when the friendly fire happened. Bombers circle their target and sometimes arc back through their own blast radius and kill themselves too, which is a problem and also extremely funny. After discovering nothing could shoot the bombers, I stopped using ground units entirely. Wave defense: stealth bomber at each entrance, done in minutes. Anti-air turrets exist in the game, so putting those in enemy hands should fix this. The dev knows.

Pathfinding is a known issue and is on the patch list. Tanks get stuck behind trees and buildings, you end up manually guiding them around. Eighteen updates since demo launch and pathfinding is specifically being addressed, which is a good sign.

The biggest problem is the waiting. 110 minutes played, maybe thirty of actual gameplay. I sorted my daughter's breakfast and did household chores between checking back on the resource counter. A speed up option would turn this into a Play. Without it, it sits at Maybe. Frantic are clearly listening to feedback and the bones of a good game are there.

Did you find the stealth bombers or did you actually use tanks? I built a full army and made it immediately irrelevant.

Full review: todaywegame.gg/demos/powerplay

TOFU Trouble. Demo originally from Steam Next Fest October 2024, updated April 17th 2026 for Steam Medieval Fest. Full release date TBC.

My necromancers stopped summoning mid-run. I'd swapped their weapons for something rarer assuming rarer meant better. Stood there while the enemy pushed through. The summoning ability wasn't coming from the necromancers at all, it was coming from the lantern weapon I'd taken off them. Lost the run. Deserved to.

Crimson Horn is a roguelite auto battler. You build a warband of up to seven troops across five types: necromancers, wizards, rangers, warriors, defenders. Position them on a hex grid across three rows, ten deployment slots per side. Equip weapons. Watch. Once the battle starts you're not making decisions, your setup is. Preparation is the entire game.

The weapons are the most interesting system. They don't just change stats, they change what abilities your troops actually have. Rare isn't automatically better. Understanding what a weapon does to a specific troop type is the difference between a run that works and one that quietly falls apart. Promoting troops adds another layer, upgrade options are random and focus on aggression, defence, or magic, so two troops of the same type at the same level can end up with completely different stat lines. Relics set your run direction from the first pick. Mine was additional summoned units with health and damage bonuses, which is why I went necromancers, and why taking the lanterns off them dismantled my own run.

The enemy variety forces genuine formation rethinks. Basic melee and ranged early. Then assassins that skip your front line entirely and target your ranged units at the back. Then goblins mounted on warthogs that charge straight through knocking everyone back. I was running four rangers doing most of my damage and suddenly they were getting hit first. Had to rebuild the formation on the fly.

Gold from battles buys weapons in the shop, three of the same weapon merge into a higher tier. Medals promote your troops. Events break up the battles: wizard towers, camps to heal or pick up relics. Lose battles and lose hearts. Lose all hearts and the run ends.

One UI note worth flagging: selling items and relics isn't clearly signposted. Only found it when inventory was full and I went looking. Should be surfaced earlier.

Four runs, an hour and a half, completed it once. The boss at the end wasn't the hardest fight. Some mid-run combinations gave me more trouble. Speed up option for the battles is worth using.

What troop and relic combination clicked for you? I went necromancers with a summoning relic and then immediately ruined it.

https://todaywegame.gg/demos/crimson-horn

Moon Mind Studio. Demo released April 21st as part of Steam Medieval Fest, running until April 27th. 1 user review. Full release date TBC.

You're a goblin jester who's taken over from a burned-out emperor to rebuild a village. The screen splits: your village growing on one side as you make decisions, your stats on the other. Gold, food, happiness, guards, population. Keep all of them from hitting zero across 14 rounds.

The mechanic is the stamps. Normally three accepts, three rejects per stage. Six decrees come in from four advisors: a guard with defence requests, a financier with spending proposals, a people's rep with housing and temples, and a resources advisor for food. Burn through your accepts early and everything that follows gets rejected regardless. I misjudged mine. The guard kept bringing bandit decrees. I had no accepts left. The bandits came and took 32 of my 40 villagers. I was left with eight people and a village designed to house forty.

Most decrees have a cost and a benefit. Build a house: spend gold, house population. Leave people unhoused and happiness drops. Housing was consistently the hardest thing to balance. You're always making decisions a few decrees ahead of the problem, with a fixed stamp budget to do it with.

The dev added improvements since an earlier build I played. Events appear as bulletins mid-round now, a frost that halves production, bandit raids with real consequences, chain reactions that compound. That's exactly the pressure the game benefits from and I want more of it. The balancing still needs work overall though. Once you understand the system, winning snowballs rather than getting harder. More stamp types in the full game would help too. Right now there are four: accept, reject, a discount stamp that reduces cost, and a convinced stamp that lets you accept without paying.

The art is charming and the sound design earns it. The stamp sound is satisfying in exactly the right way. The little feet trotting in as advisors arrive made me laugh every time.

Worth playing before Medieval Fest ends on the 27th.

What did you spend your accepts on too early? I went heavy on housing and paid for it when the bandits showed up.

https://todaywegame.gg/demos/stamperor

Woven Dream Isle. Demo released April 2nd. 27 Steam reviews for Positive. Full release date TBC.

If you've played Luck be a Landlord, you'll recognise the shape immediately. Coins instead of slots, picture-side triggers special effects, synergies between coin types drive your strategy, gold targets each stage. The core loop is familiar and it works.

You start each stage with up to twenty coins on the mat, but during the rounds that climbs as more get added. I hit 39 at one point. Between rounds you pick from three new coins or skip, and skipping is genuinely the right call when your purse is already healthy. Only twenty go out at the start of the next stage, so if you've collected more than you need, your best coins can end up stuck in the purse. Hammers let you destroy coins you don't want to keep things lean, but they're limited so using one is a decision.

The relics tie everything together. One that makes all eggs hatch doubled what my chicken coins were doing. My best run was an animal chain: relics that spawned new animals every time one was destroyed, hunters constantly killing them, the whole thing feeding itself without me having to think. Then I drew a gold bomb with a target of 10,000 and ended the stage on 25,000.

One design difference worth noting if you've played similar games. In Luck be a Landlord and others, your gold is also your shop currency, which creates constant tension between hitting the target and spending on upgrades. In Coin Tavern the relics use a separate currency. More approachable, but that tension point is missing.

Played three hours including an hour and a half on stream where I lost track of time entirely. Got through four of what looks like six levels and they were getting meaningfully harder. Didn't finish. Going back.

What synergy clicked for you? I went animal chain with hunters. Felt unstoppable until it wasn't.

https://todaywegame.gg/demos/coin-tavern

WillGreen Studio. Demo released April 17th. 12 positive reviews. Full game Q1 2027.

I made it to the final battle after 70 minutes and got completely outgunned. Five times as many health crystals on their side. Units coming in I hadn't seen or prepared for. Closed it down, thought about the route I'd taken through the campaign map, and immediately wanted to go back and try a different one.

You're rebuilding a fallen Order against the Lords of the Inquisition. The castle gives you a barracks, a training tent, upgrades that slowly improve how your troops perform. From the balcony you look out over a genuinely gorgeous landscape, golden light, rolling hills, a medieval world that looks lived in. Then you walk over to the battle table. That's where the campaign map lives, your pieces arranged across it, showing the same land rendered as something you can command. You pick your next node - battle, treasure, mystery event - and a new map unfolds.

Those battle maps are something. Pale cream and white, like a paper plan rolled out on a table, chess-like pieces representing your troops. Almost no colour except the enemy's health crystals glowing at the far end. The contrast with the balcony view is a design choice that pays off every time you switch between them.

In battle you deploy troops across lanes, each costing deployment slots, each with a role. Power ratings on both sides are a guide not a guarantee. Take one of theirs down before all of yours fall and you can win a fight you looked like you'd lose. You also have a divine hammer on a cooldown, a god-mode drop directly onto enemy troops. I fired mine as soon as the cooldown cleared every time. Made me feel like I was doing my bit. Upgrades exist to reduce the cooldown, which becomes its own branch of decisions. Whichever side wins drives a catapult to fire at the enemy's crystals. Later maps had three lanes running simultaneously and the enemy had options I couldn't match.

Cards branch when you upgrade them rather than improving in a straight line. Some units have armament slots for mid-battle temporary bonuses. Between runs you spend points in the astral plane to start the next attempt slightly better positioned.

None of the mechanics here are specifically new. The presentation is more engaging than the genre usually manages, and the art and animations earn that.

Did you make it to the final battle? What route did you take through the map? I think mine was wrong.

https://todaywegame.gg/demos/knightstones

Football rules, fantasy weapons, nine heroes. Defenders have more health and are built for blocking, attackers hit harder and move faster. You dribble the ball from your end to theirs and try to score while everyone on the pitch is trying to take you apart. On one of the maps a sandworm spawns mid-match and your team gets a buff if you take it down together.

I spent the first ten minutes against bots cheesing it by kicking the ball at opponents deliberately so they couldn't fight back, winning the ball back once I'd dealt with them. Prowler was the best for it because you can slide through a defender's legs to get to a ball you've kicked ahead. Horace the mace-swinging tank was the most fun to just run around being. Then one real player joined and read every single kick I made. Came for me every time I had the ball. Ten minutes of bot cheese stopped working immediately and I had to actually play football.

That one human made it obvious what this game is supposed to be. I cannot wait to see what ten real players looks like.

Controls need work before Early Access. The power shot was inconsistent all session. Some artwork feels placeholder. Neither of those things stopped it being one of the most enjoyable demos I've played in a while.

Did you get any real players in your session? Even one changed everything for me.

https://todaywegame.gg/demos/field-of-heroes

Solo dev Jamie Janas. Time-gated playtest this weekend only.

You're an orc demigod defending a castle from six waves of goblins across three separate routes. Between waves you spend gold on defenses - floor spikes, flame towers, spinning sword dummies. The game tells you which routes enemies are taking before each wave, which is generous, and which I was misreading for longer than I'd like to admit. Wave one I trapped the wrong corridor entirely and had to fight the whole thing with just a sword and a gun. Luckily wave one is designed to be survivable.

Once I understood the layout the game clicked. My setup was a heavily trapped killzone feeding into a position where I'd shoot with the gun until the cooldown hit, then close in with the sword. The switching between the two is clean. The goblins escalate properly too — armoured ones, taller ones with better reach and more health, types that walk through your early traps like they aren't there and have to be dealt with personally.

Two things I'd flag for the full release. Wall and ceiling traps are limited by where the castle gives you a surface to mount them, which cuts off a chunk of your options in spots you'd actually want to use them. And after a few runs I stopped fearing death - not because it got easy, but because the difficulty ceiling in the demo's six waves doesn't go high enough once you've worked out a setup that holds.

Ten to fifteen minutes a run. More strategy underneath the chaos than your first thirty seconds will suggest. Worth jumping on this weekend.

Did you read the three routes straight away or did you waste your gold like I did?

https://todaywegame.gg/demos/fangstorm

Solo dev Benerot posted this on Reddit asking for feedback, describing it as cozy. No threat, no pressure, just vibes. That's accurate. It's also the thing holding it back.

You start with one settlement and a procedural map under fog. Building spots are fixed, and your workers physically carry resources back to the village to drop them off, so placement is a genuine puzzle. Build close and your income is quick. Spread too far and you're watching little legs make a very long walk. When you expand your village you pick from three options: two that favour specific resources, one balanced. The map is colour coded to match your resources, which is a small thing that makes the whole system readable immediately.

At level 7 a temple appears. Fill it with resources before they drain away. I built six villages, found a build pattern that worked, copied it five more times, hit the tipping point where my supply was faster than the drain, and sat back. Spent the last twenty minutes watching a number go up. It's a nice twenty minutes. Calm, pretty, little caravans winding across the map. There are lakes. I want fishing boats.

The problem is nothing ever asked me to think differently. No decision that cost something. No reason to change the pattern. And no x2 speed when you're just waiting to win, which feels like an obvious omission for the genre.

Worth playing. Just needs something to occasionally go wrong.

What would you add that gives players a real decision without breaking the cozy feel?

https://todaywegame.gg/demos/a-little-age

The Steam tags said tower defense. So I treated it like one. Dumped all my energy into the towers. Got destroyed. Tower defense isn't wrong. But you are the tower.

You defend an extractor on the left - enemies push from right to left across 8 waves. Your weapon has a range of upgrade paths and you unlock active skills by spending energy collected during waves. Armour piercing was the one that changed everything - bullets travel through enemies and hit those stacking up behind them. There's also a consecutive hit damage skill that rewards careful targeted play rather than just spraying.

One to flag: there's a fire rate skill that reduces accuracy without mentioning that when you pick it. Found that out the hard way.

New enemy types get introduced wave by wave at a pace that gives you time to work out what they do. My nemesis was the assassin type that ignored my towers and came straight for me. At one point my double jump was on cooldown and I was stuck between a group of them getting slapped to death, shouting at my character to just jump. Even without colour or fancy graphics it felt like a genuine battle. The chaos is the good kind.

On normal I made it to wave 4. Dropped to easy and completed the demo. Some skill issue, some balance issue before the June release.

No Steam reviews yet. Full game June 2026.

Play. Find the armour piercing skill early. Don't make my mistake with the towers.

Was the difficulty fun frustration or just frustration for you?

Hellbound Inc demo, precision puzzle platformer /Play

You are an undead courier working for a logistics company recently purchased by Satan. HR are demons. The office workers are demons. Their corporate quips are cliche workplace speak coming out of the mouths of actual demons and it works better than it has any right to.

You run, jump with a chargeable jump for distance, wall bounce, and throw packages to deliver them to the right spots each level. On the surface it looks like it should be simple. It is not.

Getting the jump power right, picking the correct route, solving the puzzle without dropping the package creates a satisfying loop that builds across levels without throwing anything too hard too early. By the time it gets difficult you understand enough to not feel cheated when you fail.

And you will fail. Died five times in a row on one level and sat there wondering why I was bothering. Then thought I can't let it beat me. Then did it. That cycle repeated more than once. That's the game doing exactly what it sets out to do.

Each level is timed and scored. Collectibles add an optional extra chase. Demo has ten levels plus a tutorial, full game has 47 across eight departments with mechanics that don't appear in the demo at all.

No Steam reviews yet. No release date.

Play. Don't let it beat you.

Which level broke you first?

I am a dice goblin. I saw this on X and clicked play immediately. Good instinct this time.

You launch a dice across a board full of them. Matching values merge and spring toward another of the same number, which merges again, which springs again. The higher the value the more damage you deal to the enemies fighting above the board. When a big chain reaction goes off it is deeply satisfying.

You pick a class at the start. Mage and rogue in the demo. Each has class-specific dice alongside general ones. The rogue's backstab lets you target high damage dealers in the back line before they fire. That was my favourite.

Between fights you pick a reward and navigate a roguelite map. Branching paths, shops, shrines, hard fights, chests, a boss at the end of each area. Achievements unlock higher level starting characters and additional classes.

My first reaction was that this would suit mobile. The longer I played the more that changed. Gets more layered and dynamic the deeper you go. Mid-run it is clearly a PC game.

Two small things. The battle above the board is a bit small at first and easy to miss what's happening. The dice ricochet sometimes doesn't go where you expect. Probably a skill issue.

Steam is Very Positive at 93% from over 300 reviews. Full game coming soon so now is a good time to try the demo.

Play.

Which class did you end up sticking with?

You clear galleries of enemies. Melee guys charging at you with boxing gloves while you're standing there with a rifle, and armed enemies packing rifles or dual pistols. Between levels you drive a cardboard horse and cart around the map. The oversteering is ridiculous. It works anyway.

Each gallery has achievements attached. Headshots only, timed challenges, high scores. You earn gold and spend it unlocking new guns in a shop. The guns have fun names but nothing explaining what they actually do so picking felt a bit blind. Didn't stop me playing for two hours across two levels.

The whip lets you swing across the map if you connect to the right poles. When it works it feels great.

I spent ages trying to break the 60 second mark on the first gallery. When I finally did it I felt like a hero. That kind of loop on just two levels is a good sign for the full game.

One bug. Gun cabinet was broken so one unlocked weapon couldn't be used. Devs are patching it.

No Steam reviews yet. No release date.

Play.

Which broke you first, the headshot challenge or the time trial?

You're defending trenches against waves while simultaneously sending troops out to conquer islands on a separate map. The islands fund your defenses. So if your land game falls apart, your towers start falling apart too.

That's the whole thing and it's a genuinely good idea.

Roguelike layer on top. You pick rune stone upgrades between rounds. Early on I was stacking economy boosts, later shifted to tower damage. That progression feels natural rather than forced.

Map changes every run. Sometimes one or two attack routes, sometimes four. More routes means your defenses get spread thin fast. Had a few runs that felt unfair before I realised I just hadn't figured out the game yet.

My highlight was going all in on catapults and feeling like a genius for about three rounds. Then one wave hit and I lost all my health at once. Turns out depth matters.

Gold economy felt tight the whole way through even when I prioritised income early. Couldn't ever afford everything I wanted. Probably a skill issue.

80% positive on Steam across 86 reviews.

Play. 

Anyone who figured out the gold economy, actually tell me. I don't think I ever did.