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Nostalgic helicopter shooter Cleared Hot has funny physics and a demo worthy of your time
If you remember the days of Desert Strike or enjoy other more modern helicopter shooters, the demo for Cleared Hot is one for you.
Category: Top-down shooter
Net.Attack() is like Vampire Survivors but you program unique attacks
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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Lead a team of mercenaries in the tactical top-down shooter Regulators out now
Originally called Regulator City and now just Regulators, it's the latest action game from indie developer Orangepixel known for the likes of Gunslugs, Heroes of Loot, Residual and more.
Metal Thunder puts you in a the gunner seat of an AC-130 with progression popularised by Vampire Survivors
This is quite a unique experience. Merging the progression system made popular by Vampire Survivors, with the aerial combat of Call of Duty's AC-130 missions. Metal Thunder definitely has a fun idea to it.
Frontline Crisis is a tough but engaging mix of tower defense and top-down shooting with a big mech
Developer BCQT released Frontline Crisis earlier in August, and like a lot of smaller games it seems to have flown under the radar but if you love tower defense and top down shooting you need to play this.
Glyphica: Typing Survival brings typing games into the survivor-like era
Survivor-likes, bullet-heaven horde-games are everywhere after Vampire Survivors showed up and now one developer is attempting to do the same with a typing game in Glyphica: Typing Survival.
Brotato: Abyssal Terrors is going to ruin my free time, especially with co-op
Oh no, please no more, I have so little time as it is. Brotato: Abyssal Terrors has been announced as the first DLC for the excellent top-down arena shooter roguelite Brotato and it's full of goodies.
Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess releases in June, inspired by classic Desert Strike
Anyone remember Desert Strike? Jungle Strike? Urban Strike? Well, Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is for you! Built like the classics, although it looks a lot more wild, like something out of a fever dream.
Check out the awesome demo of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is an upcoming spin-off of the very popular online co-op mining action game Deep Rock Galactic, and now a public demo is up so you can try it too and you really should try this one.
Base-building, tower defense and digging — Lumencraft has it all
Lumencraft is a pretty gorgeous top-down blending of base-building, where you need to set up defensive towers and a whole lot of digging.
Tower-defense base-building mining game Lumencraft adds procedural maps
Lumencraft is a really interesting game that blends together elements of tower-defense, base-building, mining and a little Deep Rock Galactic in a top-down view. A big new release is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified with Native Linux support.
Space Bandit is a top-down shooter with slick tunes and a Hotline Miami vibe
Space Bandit is a new Native Linux top-down shooter where you're running through cramped corridors on some space ship. It's got a whole lot of style and some great tunes too.
Check out the demo for Space Bandit, a shoot 'em up roguelite with 'annoyingly clever AI'
Love a twin-stick shooter? How about one that features apparently clever AI? Check out Space Bandit, which has a demo available right now.
Lumencraft blends top-down shooting, Tower Defense and a destructible environment
Lumencraft is a brand new release from developer 2Dynamic Games that is going to suck up far too much of my time, and might be a new favourite run blast through on my Steam Deck.
Action-shooter The Ascent is Steam Deck Verified, adds a little tweak for Deck players
The Ascent is a solo and co-op top-down looter-shooter from Neon Giant and Curve Games. It got Steam Deck Verified, and so the developer made a fun little tweak for players on Deck.
Death Carnival shows off the absolutely insane PvP mode
Death Carnival (previously known as BulletRage) is still in progress and a new trailer has just been shown off giving a little look into the PvP mode it will have.
Incredible top-down-shooter Brigador gets a huge free enhancement
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition, a beautiful cyberpunk top-down shooter with awesome city-wide destruction has a big free upgrade out now for all players.
Star Drifters talk their Linux sales for titles like Danger Scavenger, plus a key giveaway
Star Drifters recently did their first native Linux release with Danger Scavenger, so their Community & PR Manager got in touch to mention how it all went.
Top-down tactical shooter RUNNING WITH RIFLES had a massive surge in players recently
After being available in some form since 2012, RUNNING WITH RIFLES seems to be finally hitting it big with a sudden surge of thousands flocking to the top-down tactical shooter.
Death Carnival to have full cross-platform online play, developer very positive on Linux
Death Carnival, originally called BulletRage, is an upcoming fast-paced top-down shooter with extreme weapons & online multiplayer mayhem.
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