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2022PC90 % positive11.99 €

You design the ultimate villain lair by cleverly placing rooms on a grid to score points for your evil boss. Along the way you sabotage rivals and puzzle out ever better layouts.

  • Runs that play out differently every time
  • Tactical depth
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lots of humour

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Nubby's Number Factory

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2025PCSteam Deck playable97 % positive4.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Chambers of Devious Design: runs that differ every time, tactical depth and plenty of humour.

A humorous plinko-style roguelike where you drop Nubby down a pegboard to hit number quotas, stacking quirky upgrades for ever higher scores, or the sun explodes.

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Ballionaire

Lots of humour

A pachinko-style roguelike where you reshape the board with pegs, bumpers and relics and chain absurd synergies while the balls drop on their own. The appeal lies in theorycrafting ever more powerful builds.

Concrete Jungle

Runs that play out differently every time

A city-building puzzle where you place buildings and parks from drawn cards on a grid, optimizing point combos. Clever planning replaces micromanagement.

Big Pharma

Lots of humour

A factory-optimization business sim where you design production lines for drugs, tune ingredients and layouts, and balance efficacy, side effects and profit. A wry, distinctive art style accompanies the satisfying puzzle-like tinkering.

Combolands

Runs that play out differently every time

A compact city-building roguelike where you place buildings cleverly and chain combos to grow a tiny metropolis in short runs.

Isle of Arrows

Runs that play out differently every time

A roguelike tower defense with a board game feel: you place tiles, buildings and roads to grow your island into a fortress against waves of invaders. Each run rewards clever placement and planning.

Merge Maestro

Runs that play out differently every time

In this roguelike merge builder you fuse hundreds of emoji-style tokens into ever new combinations. Each run rewards creative strategies as the challenges steadily grow tougher.

Cursed Words

Runs that play out differently every time

A word-puzzle roguelike where you spell words from letters and stack ever-stronger synergies and rule-breaking combos to chase high scores. Runs escalate into increasingly chaotic, over-the-top builds.

Sticker/Ball

Lots of humour

A chaotic pool-meets-roguelike where you fire balls, hit dice and stack stickers to build absurd combos. Every run is an experiment in how far you can push your scoring chaos.

Calculate It

Runs that play out differently every time

A roguelike built around calculators: every one you collect changes how you play, and you puzzle through each run with numbers and clever combinations.

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