"Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion is an absurd joke-a-minute comedy stapled to a spectacularly fun arcade shooter. Entirely hand-drawn in a style that sits somewhere between alternative comic and Adult Swim cartoon, it's an incredibly stylish game packed with low-brow humor that feels designed to make you roll your eyes at its stupidity even as you're laughing at it. Its chaotic boss battles and ludicrous side quests are a blast, and it's worth checking out just for the sheer artistic audacity of its cartoon world."
"What makes a hidden gem? Honestly, it's a term without a great definition. My hidden gem might be your obvious hit and vice versa. But for the purpose of this list, I'm looking for games that have few reviews on Steam or Metacritic, that didn't win major awards, that we didn't find time to cover at all at Inverse, or that just didn't dominate online conversations."
In 2025, a few behemoth releases like Clair Obscur overshadowed many other high-quality games. Hidden gems often have few reviews, lack major awards, receive little coverage, or fail to dominate online conversations. Such games can still rank among the year's best despite low visibility. Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion exemplifies this: a hand-drawn, Adult Swim–adjacent visual style paired with low-brow humor, chaotic boss fights, ludicrous side quests, and engaging arcade shooting mechanics. Many players are likely to have missed similarly worthy titles amid the year's heavier hitters, making exploration valuable.
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