Are you in a video game? I'm not. Fix that with today's Bite the Bullet contest. So full disclosure: Mega Cat Studios is really cool, and they've got some really cool stuff in the works. How do I know that? Because I pay attention, fool. An...

Risk of Rain 2 is back on the menu! Hopoo Games added a new stage, boss, and survivor this week as part of the Scorched Acres update – the first significant milestone on the Steam Early Access title's content roadmap. I didn't know ho...

Jonathan Chey, one of the brilliant minds responsible System Shock 2, is behind Void Bastards. That's a huge deal for many people, myself included. Someone with that sort of development mind created a first-person shooter roguelike? Co...

I had the lovely opportunity to play Children of Morta back in 2016, and holy cow I didn't realize it was that long ago. I also put it on my "Indies of 2017 to Look Forward To" list. 2017, heh. But now it's slated to release this year!...

The Epic Games Store is currently handing out City of Brass, a hack-and-slash adventure about a thief tearing through an "Arabian Nights-themed metropolis." The PC game is free until June 6, 2019. It's one of those titles that's flown under...

What you you do for the king? Enter today's contest for a Switch or Xbox One copy of RPG For the King! Somewhere around the end of the PS2/beginning of PS3 era, RPGs turned their collective backs on the turn-based combat system, opting for ...

2018's smash hit roguelike Dead Cells is getting some free DLC today. The Rise of the Giant expansion is now available on Switch and PS4 and will be hitting other platforms in short order. The recently announced mobile port will also recei...

Today's contest features Devolver Digital's hit game The Swords of Ditto for Switch! The Swords of Ditto just launched an awesome new expansion pack, Mormo's Curse, which adds all sorts of new stuff to the game. Naturally, I stood boldly at...

The wonderful roguelike action game Dead Cells will be heading to mobile devices this year. Developer Playdigious will be porting over the game to iOS this summer for $9.99 with an Android port being released later on. This new version wil...

Enter our contest for your chance to win a Switch copy of Blazing Beaks! I know I keep saying I'm the resident dog and cat video game correspondent, but I'm also trying to branch out. Specifically, to ducks. Ducks are awesome. They're cute ...

Early Access is always a bit of a gamble for developers. They are putting forth a project in progress that they plan to continue working on but still want people to pay for it. It's also a gamble for consumers as it's not as simple as readi...

Next time you're in a Binding of Isaac, Nuclear Throne, Enter the Gungeon sorta mood but you're craving something a little lighter, think of Skelly Selest. It's a classic skeleton-against-the-world tale. Skelly Selest is part roguelite dung...

A month into Steam Early Access, Risk of Rain 2 has already gotten off to a tremendous start. But what comes next? And when? The co-op roguelike game has a roadmap to field those questions and more. If all goes according to plan, Hopoo Game...

Have you ever been enraptured by a single image from a video game? Just one shot, one minuscule slice of a final product that you just can't take eyes off of, that lives in your brain for days or even weeks after? I've had my fair share. Th...

I'm Destructoid's resident Dog and Cat Games Correspondent Extraordinaire. You might have noticed I changed my avatar to match this distinction. So of course anything that comes through the tipline that mentions dogs or cats gets an instant...

When Risk of Rain 2 was announced to be in 3D instead of 2D, I wasn't sure what to think. I loved that the developers were going in a new direction with the IP, but was worried it wouldn't quite have the same panache. I was so freaking...

You hold all the cards to winning today's contest for a Switch copy of Monster Slayers! Attention villagers -- we have a monster problem. A pretty big one. They're everywhere. They smell, and they're mean, and frankly. I just don't like the...

Developer Croteam has stealth released a brand new Serious Sam title on Steam. A roguelike, top-down shooter, Serious Sam: Tormental sees players jumping into the mind of ancient Egyptian god Mental to stop him from doing bad things...or so...

I'm not sure what else I can say about the roguelike genre that I haven't already written. So many of these games play by the same rules that describing one can be easily applied to another. Just swap out some names and platforms and you're...

While visiting Headup Games' booth at PAX East this weekend, the first thing about their new title Dead End Job was its very iconic art style. If a game looks like The Ren & Stimpy Show, then it already has my attention.  To be com...

Indie, roguelike, and pixel-art. These three buzzwords have been increasingly prevalent in recent years. After the immense success of The Binding of Isaac, everyone and their mother started to jump on the roguelike bandwagon. Edmund McMille...

Bandai Namco invited me by its PAX East booth to get a look at Double Fine's upcoming action rogue-like Rad. The top-down action game has you pummeling mutants for survival in a randomly generated world that has succumbed to not one but two...

Dodge Roll is moving on from Enter the Gungeon after finding more success than the team "ever dreamed to imagine," but first, we're getting one last free update. A Farewell to Arms is coming April 5. The original idea was to have a new ran...

Although we're used to seeing the phrase "sold best on Switch," Dead Cells developer Motion Twin confirmed during GDC that PC was their top-selling platform. Yet, the Switch did come in second right behind it, beating out the PS4 and X...

Get your groove back with our contest for ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove! I never understood how something could be both funky and fresh, but ToeJam and Earl have always been known as funky fresh. Quite the conundrum, right? Well you...