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I find myself curiously enamored by Megabonk. An absolutely chaotic roguelike best-described as ‘3D Vampire Survivors’, it’s a bonkers experience from start to finish, and despite it being very, very weird, I’m being pulled back to do another run over and over again.

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“This game is like if Vampire Survivors was Risk of Rain 2” reads another of those reviews, which after a few hours with Megabonk I can certainly agree with. In relatively contained levels, you wander around killing bigger and bigger groups of enemies with weapons and stats that you power up with each level. Your stats can be further enhanced by interacting with the items strewn across the rest of the map, and you’ll have to contend with bringing down towering bosses before time runs out.

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