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Vampire Crawlers Review - Pixel-Perfect Pandemonium

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Vampire Crawlers Is A Spin-Off That's Better Than The Original

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Vampire Survivors' new spinoff switches genres but keeps the good vibes

Vampire Crawlers successfully adapts the Vampire Survivors gameplay into a dungeon crawler and roguelike deckbuilder format.

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Vampire Survivors spinoff Vampire Crawlers is coming to PC and consoles on April 21

Vampire Crawlers, a dungeon-crawling deckbuilder spinoff of Vampire Survivors, launches April 21 on PC, consoles, and later on mobile platforms for $10.

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Vampire Crawlers: 12 Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing

Vampire Crawlers is a highly enjoyable spin-off that emphasizes card combos for effective gameplay.

Vampire Crawlers Review - Pixel-Perfect Pandemonium

Vampire Crawlers offers a gripping deckbuilding experience that combines familiar elements from Vampire Survivors with new first-person dungeon-crawling mechanics.

Vampire Crawlers Is A Spin-Off That's Better Than The Original

Vampire Crawlers is an engaging card-based rogue-like dungeon crawler that encourages players to keep playing beyond their initial run.

Vampire Survivors' new spinoff switches genres but keeps the good vibes

Vampire Crawlers successfully adapts the Vampire Survivors gameplay into a dungeon crawler and roguelike deckbuilder format.

Vampire Survivors spinoff Vampire Crawlers is coming to PC and consoles on April 21

Vampire Crawlers, a dungeon-crawling deckbuilder spinoff of Vampire Survivors, launches April 21 on PC, consoles, and later on mobile platforms for $10.

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Cyberpunk platformers, gallivanting geckos and other new indie games worth checking out

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Marauding minotaurs, more CloverPit and other new indie games worth checking out

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Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out

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Beat-based dungeon crawlers, card-battling soccer sims and other new indie games worth checking out

Hotline Miami meets football, the power of video editing and other new indie games worth checking out

A satirical text-based genAI horror game and a tactical, one-hit top-down football action game are among new indie releases to try.

More Cult of the Lamb, a World War II computer mystery and other new indie games worth checking out

Indie gaming this week includes significant releases like Cult of the Lamb's Woolhaven expansion amid reflections on more practical portable gaming choices while traveling.

Cyberpunk platformers, gallivanting geckos and other new indie games worth checking out

Indie game showcases and events are highlighting new titles and updates in the indie gaming space this weekend.

Marauding minotaurs, more CloverPit and other new indie games worth checking out

Indie game space features new releases and upcoming titles, including updates on various games and showcases.

Super Meat Boy 3D, coin-pushing chaos and other new indie games worth checking out

Indie game showcases are thriving, with new games and updates announced regularly.

Beat-based dungeon crawlers, card-battling soccer sims and other new indie games worth checking out

Albatross Interactive is developing Terminal War, a 4v4 shooter inspired by the canceled Factions mode from The Last of Us.

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Hotline Miami meets football, the power of video editing and other new indie games worth checking out

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More Cult of the Lamb, a World War II computer mystery and other new indie games worth checking out

Little Guy Solves Big Puzzles In Gecko Gods - Kotaku

Gecko Gods is a vibrant adventure game featuring a small lizard exploring ancient temples and overcoming challenges in a colorful world.

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Fortune's Run Is Due A New Update Now Its Dev Is Out Of Prison

Dizzie, the developer of Fortune's Run, has been released from prison and is resuming work on the game after a year-long pause.

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This Turn-Based RPG Musical Is Fun But Drags A Bit In Act 3 | People Of Note Review

People of Note is a whimsical RPG where music battles and friendship combat an ancient power, blending humor with a journey to fame.

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Slay The Spire 2, One Month Later

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Slay The Spire 2 Outlines A Big Roadmap But Devs Aren't Rushing

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Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update

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Slay The Spire 2 Dev Confirms New Character, Modes Are Coming

Slay The Spire 2: Tips And Tricks For Getting Started

Slay the Spire 2 is intentionally harder than the original, with significantly increased enemy damage scaling, particularly in Act 1, requiring adaptive deck-building strategies rather than predetermined builds.

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Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good

Slay the Spire 2 introduces new characters and mechanics during Early Access, but the core gameplay feels familiar to veterans of the original game.

Slay The Spire 2, One Month Later

Slay the Spire 2 launched in early access on March 5, 2023, facing both immense popularity and significant challenges since its release.

Slay The Spire 2 Outlines A Big Roadmap But Devs Aren't Rushing

Mega Crit reveals new content roadmap for Slay the Spire 2, including The Bestiary and new game modes, but no specific release dates.

4 days ago

Slay The Spire 2 Getting Review-Bombed Again After Latest Update

Slay the Spire 2 is facing review-bombing on Steam, primarily from Chinese players, due to balancing changes in the latest update.

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Slay The Spire 2 Dev Confirms New Character, Modes Are Coming

Slay The Spire 2: Tips And Tricks For Getting Started

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Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good

Slay the Spire 2 introduces new characters and mechanics during Early Access, but the core gameplay feels familiar to veterans of the original game.

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No Man's Sky now has Pokemon-style creature battles

No Man's Sky introduces Xeno Arena, allowing players to engage in turn-based battles with adopted creatures, enhancing gameplay with strategic elements.

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Deadzone: Rogue Review - Rewarding Repetition - Game Informer

Deadzone: Rogue offers engaging gunplay and a rewarding roguelite experience, making it a standout in the first-person shooter genre.

The Week In Game Releases: Pragmata, Windrose, And More

Two lesser-known game releases this week are Regions of Ruin: Runegate and Windrose, both generating interest among gamers.

15 Big Indie Games You Should Be Paying Attention To Right Now

The Triple-i Initiative showcase revealed new games, updates, and demos, highlighting indie titles like Belmont's Curse and others from various developers.

Hardcore Survival Sim With Deadly Twist Is A Smash Hit On Steam

Road to Vostok is a post-apocalyptic single-player survival game that has secured the entire production budget for years to come within just 24 hours of its launch.

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Devil Jam Review - Hades Survivors?

Devil Jam combines Hades' art style with Vampire Survivors' gameplay, offering a unique experience at a low price, despite lacking depth and storytelling.

Another Don't Starve game is on the way

Don't Starve Elsewhere introduces 3D terrain and new gameplay elements to the survival game series.

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4 weeks ago

Mini Rogue Review

Mini Rogue is a minimalist dungeon crawler designed for quick gameplay, allowing one or two players to enjoy a simple yet engaging experience.

A New Borderlands Game Just Launched Out Of Nowhere For Mobile

Borderlands Mobile promises four classes: The Summoner, Exo-Tank, Outrider, and Assassin. However, only The Summoner is available now; the rest are listed as 'coming soon.'

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Hades 2, Vampire Crawlers, Kiln Launching on Xbox Game Pass in April

Microsoft is adding 18 new titles to Xbox Game Pass in April, including Hades 2 and Replaced on their respective launch days.

SlashZero Looks Like An Anime-Style Dead Cells (In A Good Way)

SlashZero is a stylish roguelike with anime-inspired visuals and unique gameplay mechanics, focusing on fun combat and procedural generation.

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Slay the Spire II is even better with a friend

SlashZero Looks Like An Anime-Style Dead Cells (In A Good Way)

SlashZero is a stylish roguelike with anime-inspired visuals and unique gameplay mechanics, focusing on fun combat and procedural generation.

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Slay the Spire II is even better with a friend

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Hades 2 is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on April 14

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Hades 2 Coming To PS5 And Xbox Next Month

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Hades 2 Is Coming To Xbox And PlayStation Real Soon - Release Date Announced

Hades 2 is coming to Xbox Series X/S and PS5 on April 14

Hades 2 will be available on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and Xbox Game Pass on April 14.

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Hades 2 Coming To PS5 And Xbox Next Month

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Hades 2 Is Coming To Xbox And PlayStation Real Soon - Release Date Announced

Hades 2 will release on Xbox and PlayStation on April 14th, 2025, and will be available on Game Pass.

The original Hollow Knight just got an update to fix a glitch with a final boss

Team Cherry fixed a long-standing bug in Hollow Knight, enhancing gameplay for new players after nine years since the game's release.

I Can't Stop Playing This Terrible Game, So Maybe It's Good?

Timber Rush is about numbers going up in the crudest way imaginable, a clicker game that barely even features clicking, in which you move your woodcutter side to side as increasing numbers of increasingly silly logs fly around the screen.

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12 Crimson Desert Starting Tips: Fast Travel, Inventory, & Combat Help

Crimson Desert features a vast open world and complex mechanics that require players to adapt quickly for an enjoyable experience.

Marathon's Soulslike Endgame Dungeon Is Blowing Players Away

Cryo Archive in Marathon is a complex, challenging end-game map that combines permadeath PVP with intricate design and high-stakes gameplay.

Oeuf is a punishing platformer in a cozy shell

Oeuf is a physics platformer where players control an egg navigating a whimsical world with unique movement mechanics.

All Slay The Spire 2 Bosses

Slay The Spire 2 features new bosses with unique tactics across multiple acts, requiring strategic card, class, and perk selection to overcome challenging encounters.

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Top 10 Boss Battler Board Games

Tabletop boss battlers that allow attacking the boss from round one emphasize immediate cooperative combat, positioning, pattern manipulation, and varied high-stakes mechanics.

Marathon Has Replaced Nightreign As My Multiplayer Obsession

Marathon functions as an action roguelike disguised as an extraction shooter, combining procedural RNG, run-based gameplay, and permanent gear loss with the liberating design philosophy of traditional roguelikes.

Slay the Spire 2, Scott Pilgrim EX and other new indie games worth checking out

Nintendo packed a lot of news into that 18-minute stream, including the sudden arrivals of three great games - Blue Prince, Minishoot' Adventures and Öoo - on Switch and/or Switch 2. The company revealed release dates for a bunch of games we've had on our radar, such as InKonbini: One Store (April 30), Denshattack! (June 17) and others.

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Binding Of Isaac Dev's New Roguelike Marries Strategy & Cat Poop

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Mewgenics Guide: 10 Tips To Know Before Playing

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Binding Of Isaac Dev's New Roguelike Marries Strategy & Cat Poop

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Mewgenics Guide: 10 Tips To Know Before Playing

A bite-sized adventure that puts a wrench into the classic Zelda formula

Ratcheteer DX successfully captures the classic Legend of Zelda spirit in a concise postapocalyptic adventure, requiring players to solve problems with minimal guidance.

Mewgenics From Binding Of Isaac's Creator Is Terrifyingly Massive

Mewgenics is a massive tactical RPG–life-sim roguelite with 200+ hour average completion, 500+ hours to 100%, 1,000 abilities, extensive achievements, and planned DLC.

A New Castlevania Is Finally Coming From The Dead Cells Devs

Konami is releasing Castlevania: Belmont's Curse in 2026, developed by Evil Empire and Motion Twin, set 23 years after Castlevania: Dracula's Curse.

Esoteric Ebb Has A Lot Of Hilarious Ways In Which You Can Die

Esoteric Ebb is an isometric RPG combining Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium elements, released March 3, where character stat allocation significantly impacts gameplay difficulty and survival.

Diablo Meets Stardew Valley In This Neat Life Sim Action-RPG

Emberville blends farming-sim town rebuilding with action-RPG dungeon crawling, featuring notable voice talent, dynamic combat, bosses, and an inheritable skill tree.

Icarus Is The Perfect Survival Sim No One's Talking About

After 20 years searching for the ideal survival game inspired by Minecraft and childhood adventure stories, the author discovered Icarus matches their vision of balancing exploration with safe refuge.

Brutal Survival-Horror Cronos: The New Dawn Is Getting A Little Easier

Cronos: The New Dawn adds an Easy difficulty via the free Temporal Diver Update to address player complaints about its punishing challenge across major platforms.

Demon Tides Has The Makings Of An Old PlayStation Classic

Demon Tides features exceptional movement design that seamlessly blends mechanics from multiple platformers, allowing fluid transitions between animal transformations and diverse traversal methods.

3 months ago

What Games Are Forever Stuck In Your Backlog?

Players often keep one game perpetually unfinished due to boredom, unengaging worlds, outdated mechanics, or design barriers that block continued play.

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Divinity Announcement Has Driven Way More People To Larian's Previous Games

Divinity announcement at The Game Awards 2025 significantly boosted sales of Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity: Original Sin 2.

It's Not Too Late To Save Beloved Gaming Franchises

License dormant AAA franchises to proven mid-size AA teams and allow development without publisher interference to revive them affordably.

Returning stolen artifacts becomes a thrilling heist in Relooted

A South African-developed action game stages anti-colonial heists to reclaim stolen African artifacts through parkour-driven gameplay and Africanfuturist storytelling.

An old-school Zelda-like, Skate Bums and other new indie games worth checking out

There were lots of good stuff in this week's Convergence Showcase too, including another peek at Mouse: P.I. for Hire as we get to see one of the game's bosses for the first time. This first-person shooter with rubber-hose animation is set to arrive on March 19. There were other welcome announcements for me in this showcase. First, there was a release date for the Zelda-inspired adventure Gecko Gods.

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