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2012PC82 % positive18.99 €

A 2D blend of shooter and real-time strategy where you play a disembodied brain remotely controlling many expendable clone and robot bodies. A fully destructible pixel world and physics chaos make every fight unpredictable.

  • Sandbox with your own goals
  • Pixel art
  • Deep systems to master
  • Sci-fi setting

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Rusted Warfare

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2011PC, Steam Deck playable96 % positive4.99 €

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A 2D real-time strategy game with a pixel art look, recalling Total Annihilation with huge armies of tanks, ships and aircraft. It focuses on base building, resource management and cooperative or competitive skirmishes.

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Mindustry

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Mindustry blends tower defense with factory building: you design conveyor networks and production chains to supply resources and ammo for defenses against enemy waves. It also offers a map editor, co-op and PvP.

Running With Rifles

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A top-down tactical shooter where you control a single soldier within an army of hundreds, fighting chaotic battles across open maps. It offers a single-player campaign as well as online multiplayer and co-op.

The Escapists 2

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A pixel-art sandbox prison-break game where you plan escapes around guard routines, crafting and clever tricks across varied prisons, solo or in co-op with up to three friends.

King Arthur's Gold

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A chaotic pixel-art multiplayer game where teams play as Builders, Knights or Archers to construct and demolish castles in team battles. The fully destructible world creates spontaneous, often funny skirmishes.

Super Animal Royale

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A top-down 2D battle royale where 64 adorable but murderous animals parachute in and shoot it out for the win. Quirky humor, silly vehicles like hamster balls and goofy emotes give it its charm.

Soldat

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Soldat is a fast-paced 2D multiplayer side-scrolling shooter that blends Liero and Worms with Counter-Strike-style matches. Jetpacks, a wide weapon selection and frantic firefights make it a classic of indie shooters.

Spacejacked

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A frantic arcade tower-defense hybrid where you build turrets and shoot aliens yourself while juggling the defense of several rooms at once.

8-Bit Hordes

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A colorful retro fantasy real-time strategy game with an 8-bit look, where you gather resources, build a base and lead orcs or humans into battle. It is easy to pick up and offers missions, co-op, skirmish and PvP modes.

Duck Game

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A chaotic 2D arena shooter where ducks duel in short, frantic rounds with absurd weapons. It shines brightest as a couch multiplayer game with friends.

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