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PayPalAn unholy fusion of Risk of Rain 2 with Vampire Survivors is what you'll find with Megabonk and it absolutely freaking rocks. Seriously, this is some glorious and delicious stuff that you don't want to miss out on. Note: personal purchase.
You pick a character and then jump into a randomly generated map. Run around with auto-firing weapons, pick up experience gems and pick a random level up boost to keep powering up your character. You know the drill by now. However, with it being in 3D, it adds some fun flavour to it. Not just because you can run, jump and slide about - but the characters are just plain silly too.
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For the Risk of Rain 2 spice, there's various chests spread around you can buy to open to pull out special relics as well. The general setup of it just really feels like RoR2 blended with Vampire Survivors and anyone who has played both will be quite familiar. Run around as long as you can, fight bosses and just keep on going.
It really leans into the comedy too, not just on the silly descriptions and items, but the fact that I can slide all the way down a hill on a sword while all my abilities fire off — it's so satisfying and dumb you can't help but love it.
A lot of developers have tried to replicate the success of Vampire Survivors, and only a few have managed to actually carve out their own place in a now very crowded genre. Megabonk thankfully feels fresh enough that I'm willing to spend hours of my personal time playing it. Being in full 3D really gives them more leverage, like how one unlock you can get is to add more jumps and so eventually you'll be leaping across the map over enemies and obstacles high up in the sky. It's so fun to find all the weird combinations you can add together.
The maps are littered with some funny characters to find and interact with, and in some cases rescue. There's a shady guy to buy upgrades from, a microwave that will magically clone a relic you've acquired and more.
Currently it has 240 in-game quests, 20 characters with unique abilities, over 70 items all with their own different synergies and more to discover.
Out now with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified. Megabonk is just pure stupid joy to play. The Linux version has been running very nicely too.
It's going to take over my life. I fully expect it to be a huge success, and I hope so because I want to see this have a long life with lots of additions. What's there is fantastic but I want more, lots and lots more from it. Early indicators are it doing well, with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam and it hit over 21,068 people playing recently.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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gradyvuckovic 5 hours ago
I'm often whining about modern games missing the point of things, focusing too much on technical graphical stuff like whether or not the reflections in a puddle of water are accurate or not, or having overly complicated stories where you gotta play for 10 hours to get past 'the introduction', or MMOs with more UIs and numbers than a typical office spreadsheet.
This game is the rare exception of a game that knows it's a game and is just plain damn fun.
Simple as that.
Visually it looks perfect in my opinion, everything is very visually readable despite how much crazy stuff is happening on screen, the characters and menus look fun and match with the tone of the game. Sound effects are S tier, music is catchy.
Gameplay wise it's definitely got that 'just one more go' addictive quality, the moment to moment experience is exciting, while it also keeps you coming back by giving you stuff to unlock at the main menu.
Yeah. Just a good game that's fun, cheap, runs great, .. what more could you want?
Recommended for anyone who likes video games.
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