Nullpointer is a cyberspace shooter that asks the important question: "What if Tron but with guns?" It turns out that the result is a lot of fun. With a replayable rogue-like structure, Nullpointer offers plenty of bit and bytes to blast into oblivion.

Uppercut Games, the Australian studio founded by a trio of former 2K developers, is taking players to a mysterious new domain in City of Brass, a first-person "rogue-lite" based on famous tales from Middle Eastern folklore.

Phantom Trigger is, in the words of its development team, a "neon slasher," and it's slated to arrive on the Nintendo Switch later this year. But don't let pink and teal pixel art fool you, it's more than just Hyper Light Drifter-lite.

Asura is a hack and slash that puts you in the role of a dangerous demon fighting an evil maharaja. Inspired by Indian myths and full of intense combat, it's this week's Indie Pick.

I'm laying down to recover health by bathing my photosynthetic skin in the sun when my evil twin leaps from a portal and starts firing a laser pistol at me. I'm about to conjure a couple of fireballs before my narcolepsy kicks in at the worst time. Just another day in Caves of Qud.

I die. A lot. In all types of games, but especially in Loot Rascals. Thanks to its precious art style and bubbling colours though, I can never stay away for long.

Take the alien aesthetic of Independence Day and set it to Massive Attack's Mezzanine and you'll have something in the neighbourhood of a roguelike RPG being developed by a small German studio called UnDungeon.

The world is confusing. No one tells you how to do a damn thing until it is too late. This happens in games too. It's hard to know where mistakes were made. Let It Die's end of level replays make it easy to grasp the big picture.

Let It Die is full of tough enemies. Climbing the game's massive tower is a dangerous affair. But thanks to the game's multiplayer, there's one monster that reigns above the rest: California.

Catacomb Kids is a mix between a roguelike and a platformer, with equal parts magic potions and goomba stomps. You can also chop body parts off pretty much everything. It's one heck of a challenge and a damn Cool Indie Game.

Goichi Suda, known better as Suda 51, has made some bizarre games. From the political thriller Killer7 to the highly satirical No More Heroes. His games are vibrant and unabashedly tongue-in-cheek. What happens when he makes a free to play dungeon crawler? Pure chaos.

DoomRL is a free roguelike that uses the Doom setting to offer random, digestible adventures full of super shotguns and cacodemons. Now, a takedown request from ZeniMax threatens to put an end to the project.

Gonner is a roguelike-inspired platformer that does not care if you think it's too hard. When you're playing, you tend not to care, either. It's so damn cute and smart that every punishment, even the ones you might not deserve, is easily forgiven.

I have fond memories of hack and slash RPG adventures like Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance and while I love Diablo 3, variety is the spice of life! Enter Brutal (self stylised as [email protected]), a roguelike dungeon crawler by Stormcloud Games coming to the Playstation 4 on August 9. With a great marriage of ASCII influenced style and procedurally generated dungeons, it's great for people looking to scratch an itch for adventure. Join me in this video to see how far I get in Brutal's dangerous depths!

When games let me roll a character before I start, I always make someone who seems cool, rather than min-maxing stats. In Death Road to Canada, I wanted someone who'd be fun to hang around with in a zombie apocalypse, rather than a simple zombie-clobbering machine. Given this, it's probably no surprise most of my forays didn't go that well, but I had a great time trying to steer a band of pixelated misfits to Canada.

Darkest Dungeon was one of the best proponents of the Early Access model when it became available early last year, and while the development process wasn't without a few bumps it's pleasing to see the title have pride of place on the Steam page to mark its full release.

If you've been waiting patiently for the anime-style roguelike space shooter GALAK-Z to finally make it's debut on Steam, then you won't have to wait much longer — because it will finally become available for purchase tomorrow.

If you're like me and you've been waiting for GALAK-Z to arrive on Steam, I have very, very good news. You don't have to wait long.

Falling down in video games is usually a bad thing. Spikes wait for you at the bottom of many a playfield, along with bottomless pits, pools of lava and other instadeath hazards. But, falling down is a joy in Downwell. The deeper you go, the better — and harder — it gets.