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See the new trailer for Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional taking survivor-likes to an infested family computer

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:16:34 +0000

Wipe away infections from the family computer in the nostalgic Windows XP styled Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional later this year, with a new trailer live.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor gets mid-game saves and CPU optimizations

Liam Dawe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:36:14 +0000

The excellent bullet heaven Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has Patch 3 out now which includes the much requested mid-game saving system.

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The results are in - Bullet Heaven moves forward to be an official genre

Liam Dawe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:23:51 +0000

The results are in, game developers look to move forward to create Bullet Heaven as an official genre spawned from Vampire Survivors.

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The popular Megabonk gets a mega update with new content

Liam Dawe — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:06:18 +0000

New content for Megabonk? As if I needed more reasons to load it up. The absolute indie gem survivor-like bullet heaven just got even bigger.

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Survivor-like bullet heavens are going first-person POSTAL with POSTAL: Bullet Paradise

Liam Dawe — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:14:30 +0000

Ready to go POSTAL once more? This time it's in a survivor-like bullet-heaven styled setting, because obviously every developer needs to be in this genre now.

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The excellent Yet Another Zombie Survivors is finally Steam Deck Verified

Liam Dawe — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:40:52 +0000

Yet Another Zombie Survivors is one of the best suvivor-likes for its mixture of great action and fun features, and it's finally Steam Deck Verified.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting mid-run saves and an endless mode

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:39:35 +0000

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is set for some major improvements, although we don't know exactly when but it will make surviving in it a whole lot nicer.

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Warhammer Survivors announced as a licensed Vampire Survivors game

Liam Dawe — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:24:01 +0000

Oh wow, that's certainly a surprise. Warhammer Survivors is coming from Auroch Digital as a licensed version of Vampire Survivors.

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Brotato gets a juicy free update out now - along with new Linux and macOS support

Liam Dawe — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:19:12 +0000

With Evil Empire now in control of the future of Brotato, the first free content update under their wing is out now and it really sounds great.

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Vampire Survivors just keeps on giving with a free Balatro DLC, online co-op and more free content

Liam Dawe — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:48:39 +0000

Vampire Survivors just dropped a massive content update that includes a free Balatro crossover DLC, online co-op is live and more added.

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Time to run as Death by Scrolling from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox is out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:16:08 +0000

Death by Scrolling is a rather unique twist on some of the ideas from survivor-like bullet hells, from Ron Gilbert / Terrible Toybox and MicroProse Software.

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BALL x PIT is out now and it's a brick-breaking ball-smashing great time

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:30:20 +0000

BALL x PIT from Kenny Sun / Devolver Digital is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified plus it works to perfection on Desktop Linux PCs.

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Vampire Survivors online co-op due out before the end of the year and more announcements are coming

Liam Dawe — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 13:42:19 +0000

Developer poncle has confirmed that Vampire Survivors much anticipated online co-op update will fully release before the end of the year.

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Evil Empire (Dead Cells, The Rogue Prince of Persia) take over Brotato with a plan for more updates

Liam Dawe — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:54:10 +0000

Developer Evil Empire who did lots of work on Dead Cells and made The Rogue Prince of Persia have announced they're taking over future development of Brotato.

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Deadly Days: Roadtrip brings inventory management to survivor-likes and it's damn good

Liam Dawe — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:41:05 +0000

Blending inventory management with a zombies horde-based road trip bullet heaven, Deadly Days Roadtrip is a delight.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is an excellent horde survival game - 1.0 out now

Liam Dawe — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:42:54 +0000

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 1.0 has now officially released, so you can deep dive into one of the best horde survival games around and dig for riches.

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Steel Knight's ARMIS turns Vampire Survivors into an anime inspired mecha shooter

Liam Dawe — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:34:01 +0000

Could be a fun twist for the genre. Steel Knight's ARMIS takes the ideas of Vampire Survivors with the upgrade system and tweaks it to be like a mecha anime.

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Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is like an infested Windows XP as a survivor-like bullet hell

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:04:46 +0000

Retro Windows style as a survivor-like action roguelite? Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional is giving me hilarious nostalgia.

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The Boglands DLC and free update for Halls of Torment land October 28

Liam Dawe — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:07:20 +0000

The million+ seller Halls of Torment from Chasing Carrots is set for a sweet free update and content-filled DLC on October 28th.

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Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road is easily going to be my next complete obsession

Liam Dawe — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:58:42 +0000

Monsters are Coming! Rock & Road has just planted itself right at the top of my wishlist for the excellent combination of survivor-likes with tower defense.

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The excellent survivor-like Halls of Torment is getting a big DLC and free update

Liam Dawe — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:32:11 +0000

Halls of Torment is an incredible auto-battler like Vampire Survivors with a classic Diablo vibe to it, and now it's set to get a lot bigger.

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Parkour meets Vampire Survivors in Midnight Horde

Liam Dawe — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 10:26:33 +0000

Indie dev Carry Castle recently announced Midnight Horde, a game that blends the popular mechanics of Vampire Survivors with parkour moves.

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Vampire Survivors latest Beta adds online play and more new content

Liam Dawe — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:55:36 +0000

Vampire Survivors is finally getting the promised online mode, with a Beta now available to try that also includes some new content.

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Steampunk auto-shooter Airships: Lost Flotilla gets a big free content update

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:36:56 +0000

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a really good auto-shooter taking elements from survivor-like bullet hells and it just had a big free content expansion.

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Rising Heat aims to be a next evolution of horde survival twin-stick shooters

Liam Dawe — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:31:11 +0000

A sprinkle of Geometry Wars and other twin-stick shooters, a dash of Vampire Survivors styled upgrades - Rising Heat thinks it's going to be special.

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Vehicle No. 4 has you build your own vehicle in this horde survival game

Liam Dawe — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 09:25:30 +0000

With a demo live on Steam, Vehicle No. 4 could be one to watch if you love your horde survival games with you building your own vehicle.

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Net.Attack() is a very unique take on survivor-like roguelikes with programming your abilities

Liam Dawe — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:40 +0000

Net.Attack() takes the basic idea of the action from Vampire Survivors and other survivor-likes but, it gets you to program your abilities with code blocks.

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Nautical Survival is an overlooked naval-based roguelite auto-shooter gem

Liam Dawe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:39:09 +0000

Look away now if you value your free time, as Nautical Survival is an absolute gem that will throw your free hours overboard.

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TerraTech Legion could be the best survivor-like ever with vehicle building

Liam Dawe — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 11:57:37 +0000

I cannot stress enough the joy I felt building up a vehicle in TerraTech Legion, another survivor-like game with a build your own twist.

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Net.Attack() is like Vampire Survivors but you program unique attacks

Liam Dawe — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:45:52 +0000

Now this is seriously cool! Net.Attack() takes the basics of Vampire Survivors, and gets you doing a little visual programming.

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Deck-builder meets auto-shooter in Hordes of Fate : A Hand of Fate Adventure - demo now live

Liam Dawe — Thu, 22 May 2025 14:08:33 +0000

From the original creative team behind the Hand of Fate series, Hordes of Fate : A Hand of Fate Adventure is a mixture of deck-building and auto-shooting as yet another developer attempts to put their own spin on Vampire Survivor-like action.

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In the survivorlike ARPG 'Conquest Dark' you start off nude and build up clothing as you go with multi-life mechanics

Liam Dawe — Thu, 08 May 2025 12:08:29 +0000

Just what the survivorlike bullet heaven genre thingy needed - nudity! Conquest Dark from Eldritch Sword Games actually has quite a number of fun game mechanics worth exploring, the nudity is optional but it has a point.

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Get Vampire Survivors, Atomicrops and other great games in this new Humble Bundle

Liam Dawe — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:52:13 +0000

Humble Bundle have another good one here for you with Vampire Survivors, Atomicrops and various other similar survivorlike bullet hell / bullet heavens.

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Survivor-like bullet hell with random maps FIENDRISE adds Linux support

Liam Dawe — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:25:00 +0000

Originally released on April 17th, FIENDRISE is another quality looking survivor-like bullet heaven / bullet hell like thingy that has randomly generated stages to explore to give you a new experience every time.

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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor gets a release date and Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core gets a new trailer

Liam Dawe — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 14:02:46 +0000

There's a whole lot of space dwarf action going on lately. Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor now has a release date for the 1.0 release and we have new footage on the upcoming Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core too.

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Vampire Survivors free Square Enix SaGa cross-over DLC, another free update and cross-save out now

Liam Dawe — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:44:53 +0000

Vampire Survivors just had two entirely free content drops! The first is a free DLC cross-over with Square Enix's SaGa series, along with a chicken-themed free update.

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Do screeching doughnuts and mow enemies down with saw blades in Driveloop: Survivors

Liam Dawe — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:24:25 +0000

Driveloop: Survivors is another attempt to blend the survivor-like bullet heaven whatchamacallit genre made popular by Vampire Survivors with vehicles. It's out now in Early Access so I took it for a spin.

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Wildkeepers Rising blends survivor-like bullet-heavens with creature collection for lots of chaotic battles

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:30:50 +0000

Available now in Early Access on Steam, Wildkeepers Rising is one of the latest to attempt to put a new spin on the popularity of whatever genre we're calling things like Vampire Survivors today.

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Luck be a Landlord dev's bullet heaven roguelite Maze Mice arrives May 2

Liam Dawe — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 13:28:28 +0000

Maze Mice is the next game from the developer of the popular Luck be a Landlord, and it's going to chew through your skirting board into Early Access on May 2nd.

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Temtem: Swarm recently hit 100K sales and a big update is out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:40:45 +0000

Temtem: Swarm is another survivor-like bullet heaven, a spin-off from the monster catching Temtem from Crema / GGTech Studios and it appears to have sold quite well.

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Spell-combining co-op survivor-like The Spell Brigade adds a new character and a new game mode

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:53:49 +0000

A game that continues to review well by players, with it hitting a good sales milestone not long after launch, The Spell Brigade from Bolt Blaster Games has a big update out now with a brand new character.

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Bullet heaven survivor-like shoot 'em up Gunlocked 2 announced

Liam Dawe — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:20:18 +0000

FromLefcourt have announced Gunlocked 2, a bullet heaven survivor-like shoot 'em up that takes all the goodies from the first game and greatly expands on it.

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Hordes of Fate : A Hand of Fate Adventure announced from the team behind the original Hand of Fate

Liam Dawe — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 08:27:29 +0000

A bullet heaven survivor-like auto-shooter from the Hand of Fate team? Okay, you have my attention here. Spitfire Interactive have revealed Hordes of Fate : A Hand of Fate Adventure set for release in 2025.

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A Review and Dev Interview: Broadside Renegades

anewson — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:11:26 +0000

This ain't your dad's Vampire Survivors. We take a look at a hidden gem and talk to the developer about the development process.

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Maze Mice feels like Pac-Man and Survivor-like Bullet Heavens had a baby

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:34:10 +0000

Survivor-like bullet heavens are are all the rage right now from Vampire Survivors to Brotato and everything in between. Maze Mice answers the question no one asked: what if it was like Pac-Man?

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SUPER DEBT is a twin-stick bullet-hell dungeon crawler where time eats away your money

Liam Dawe — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:49:01 +0000

Things get weird real fast in SUPER DEBT, a new bullet-hell dungeon crawler from developer zagawee, who also made Garbanzo Quest.

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The Spell Brigade gets lots of gameplay improvements plus a UI update for Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:41:24 +0000

The Spell Brigade is a popular survivor-like with online co-op for up to 4 players, it's sold well and the developers continue making big improvements to it.

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Airships: Lost Flotilla is a perfect time-killer where you can make some ridiculous ships

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 17:43:52 +0000

Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk themed auto-shooter just released from David Stark, an offshoot of their other game Airships: Conquer the Skies and it's simply great.

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Cats vs Cthulhu is a weird and charming survivor-like with unique movement

Liam Dawe — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 12:19:27 +0000

In a genre full of clones and copycats, Cats vs Cthulhu is a very unique bullet-heaven survivor-like where you bounce around the arenas trying to avoid all the enemies while collecting everything to power up.

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Maze Mice from the dev of Luck Be a Landlord blends maze-running, time-freezing and bullet heaven together

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:38:30 +0000

TrampolineTales developer of the popular Luck be a Landlord slot machine deck-builder just announced Maze Mice and it really sounds unique.

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