Raid Survivors Festival, A Bullet Heaven Festival on Steam!
Upcoming games, demos, discounts. An excellent moment to Wishlist or acquire some games!
From the 17th to the 24, the Raid Survivors Festival aims to showcase great bullet heavens that can be found on Steam. With so many amazing games being part of the festival, it’s impossible to fit all the great picks in this article. So, while I highly recommend checking the festival out, here are a few games to keep an eye out for, purchase, or at a minimum, Wishlist.
If you’re curious on what a bullet heaven are, I made an article defining and showcasing great examples that I will also showcase in this article.
Games I’ve Played And Recommend
I know for a fact that these games are all hype!
Brotato
Developer and publisher: Blobfish
Price: Originally $4.99, now $3.49 until Sept. 23.
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Youtube
If you ever found yourself loving bullet heavens, except for the meta-progression they’re also known for, then Brotato is perfect for you. A bite-size bullet heaven that has you controlling a weapon wielding potato and fighting off aliens in a tight area. With a variety of weapons, ranging from range to melee, medical to ethereal, this game helps you fulfill your power fantasy quickly.
Halls of Torment
Developer and publisher: Chasing Carrots
Price: $4.99
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Youtube
Visually inspired by Diablo 1’s art style, Halls of Torment pits you against hordes of evil as you play as an Elven Archer, a Human Barbarian, a flamethrower wielding Pyromancer, and much more. A very polished, competent, and content filled bullet heaven that takes advantage of its setting and visuals, having quests, old-timey voice acting, and good ol’ old school vibes.
Boneraiser Minions
Developer and publisher: Caiys
Price: Originally $4.99, now $3.74 until Sept. 23.
The joke isn’t only in the title, it’s all over this bullet heaven. In Boneraiser Minions, you become a necromancer and command a horde of bros, giants, demons, and many more, to take over the kingdoms and fight of a variety of enemies.
Soulstone Survivors
Developer and publisher: Game Smithing Limited
Price: $9.99
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Youtube
If you love being a small character fighting huge enemies and dodging large AoE’s, Soulstone Survivors is the game for you. One of the more chaotic and content filled games in the bullet heaven sphere, with many characters that each have three different weapons, a large skill tree, large passive rune tree, this game has a lot to grind for.
20 Minutes Till Dawn
Developer: Flanne
Publishers: Erabit, Flanne
Socials: Flanne’s Twitter | Erabit’s Twitter | Discord | Reddit
Price: $4.99
Take aim yourself (unless you don’t want too) in 20 Minutes Till Dawn. With a variety of character with their own special abilities, a variety of weapons that changes your playstyle, you roam around dark areas and fight of creatures of the night.
Rogue Genesia
Developer: Ouadi Huard
Price: $8.99, now $7.19
There’s more than one way to play this solid bullet heaven. In Rogue Genesia, play the classic Vampire Survivors Mode in Survivors mode or the game’s unique Rog Mod, which takes you on a Slay the Spire-like map, allowing you to select your path and dangers. There are even challenges, where you are forced to abide by set rules that, if completed, unlock upgrades in the Meta-progression shop or items.
Picayune Dreams
Developers: Stepford, Andyland, Milkypossum
Publisher: 2 Left Thumbs
Socials: Stepford’s Twitter, Milkypossum’s Twitter, 2 Left Thumbs’ Twitter | Discord | 2 Left Thumb’s Youtube
Price: $4.99
An amazing bullet heaven that truly has bullet hell features, as each boss will have you dodging as much as you’re shooting. For the love of anything, just play this game, just feel this game. Picayune Dreams has a very unique way of telling its story, presenting itself, the weapons and upgrades, the music. Super hype, cool trip, have feel it out.
Vampire Hunters
Developer and publishers: Gamecraft Studios
Price: $9.99
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Youtube
Vampire Hunters is a First Person bullet heaven where you can wild up to 12 weapons, 2 side weapons, and 2 trinkets. All three unique characters must have super strong arms or some sort of magic to be holding up so many weapons and withstanding so much firepower.
Nordic Ashes
Developer and publishers: Noxfall Studios
Price: $8.99
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Youtube
In Nordic Ashes, you pick from a multitude of unique survivors to play as after the End of the World, battling creatures in nine different realms. Each character has their own unique Talent Tree, which can be improved by playing as the character, as well as having their three unique weapons.
Games That Caught My Eye
Though, there’s TOO MANY options.
Adrenaline Rampage
Developer and publisher: Midhard Games
Price: $9.99
Social: Twitter | Discord | Youtube
Calling itself a Survivors platformer, it’s great to see how there are developers venturing on what bullet heaven is and can do. Adrenaline Rampage seems to have the foundations of a bullet heaven, while making it a side-scrolling platformer whose meta-progression is tied to base building.
Seed of Heroes
Developer: Vermillion Digital
Publisher: Sekai Project
Price: Org. $14.99, now $13.49 until Oct. 1.
Social: Sekai Project’s Twitter, Vermillion Digital’s Twitter | Sekai Project’s Discord | Sekai Project’s Youtube, Vermillion Digital’s Youtube | Sekai Project’s Facebook | Sekai Project’s Twitch
An adorable looking bullet heaven that has you assembling heroes and battling all the way to halls of Valhalla and Ragnarök. Seed of Heroes looks to have a hectic gameplay where you’ll be dodging bosses attack through a grid-system, and assembling and synergizing your team.
Voids Vigil
Developer and publisher: Caiys
Price: Org. $2.99, now $2.39 until Sept. 23.
               No bone jokes on this one, but an exceptional and solid looking bullet heaven. Void Vigil is very promising, as Boneraiser Minions is a great game, and this seems to be continuation of the great things learned from their prior game. Great art style, though a much creepier feel, and seems that instead of minions, you got drones.
Look At These Great Upcoming Games From The Festival
Look at them!
Nautical Survival
Developer and publisher: Idan Rooze
Released date: Early 2025.
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Youtube
               Arm yourself in you fast vessel and fight off monsters from the watery void in Nautical Survival. Unique buildings that you’ll need to upgrade to upgrade your visibility, as there’s fog of war, get better weapons, and so forth.
Pest Apocalypse
Developer and publisher: Kikimora Games
Release date: November 2024
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Youtube | Twitch
Deliver pizza in a post-apocalyptic hectic world. It’s astounding how the color pops, how the music rocks, and how quickly the van zooms. Pest Apocalypse looks to be a bullet heaven that will set itself apart from its spectacular presentation and controls.
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Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel
Developer: Games Farm
Publisher: Grindstone
Release date: Q4 2024
If Halls of Torment is inspired by Diablo 1, then Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel is inspired by Diablo 4. A norse-themed, beautiful and brutal bullet heaven that it’s as hectic as it’s amazing looking. It’s looking like a very promising and competent game.
20TD: Ember Path
Developer and publisher: Flanne
Release date: Don’t know.
Socials: Twitter | Discord | Reddit
While there’s not much to go by, 20 Minutes Till Dawn was a great game, and Ember Path is looking like a faster paced version of it.
Entropy Survivors
Developer: Moving Pieces Interactive
Publisher: First Break Labs
Release date: 2024
Socials: Moving Piece's Twitter, First Break Labs’ Twitter | Moving Piece's Discord
Hectic, colorful, intense, hype. One of the few but many ways to describe Entropy Survivors, where you’re a frog that pilots a mech. And you can cause havoc and destruction with up to four of your friends
Fourspell Survivors
Developer and publisher: Supernova Games
Release date: 2024
Socials: Youtube
Fourspell Survivors is a solid game that’s focused on co-op. Work together with up to four friends to sinergize both in spells and formations, as you battle through waves of enemies.
Wandness
Developer and publisher: Knight Owl Games, Binary Lunar
Publisher: Knight Owl Games
Release date: Q4 2024
Socials: Knight Owl Games’ Twitter, Binary Lunar’s Twitter | Knight Owl Games’ Discord, Binary Lunar’s Discord | Knight Owl Games’ Youtube, Binary Lunar’s Youtube
Pick your wands and modify their projectiles in Wandness. From increasing fire rate to splitting into projectiles when hitting an enemy, this cute game has a simple yet unique and fun upgrade system.
W.A.N.D. PROJECT
Developer and publisher: The Knights of Unity
Release date: 2024
Socials: The Knights of Unity’s Twitter | The Knights of Unity’s Youtube | W.A.N.D. PROJECT’S Discord
Become a spellcrafting alchemist in this cute bullet heaven. In W.A.N.D. PROJECT, you modify how your spells work, how they buff you, how they interact against the enemy, similar how in Wandness you modify your wands, here, you modify your spells.
Graveyard Gunslingers
Developer and publisher: PyroPhysics
Release date: Q4 2024
Gather resources in the day, survive the harsh undead night in Graveyard Gunslingers. This game offers a unique twist to the genre but making you gather resources to upgrade a variety of skills, as well as using souls to unlock tiles to expand your map.
There You Have It!
Not all the game available in the festival, but just a few that I was interested in. Be sure to support the developers by purchasing, trying their demos, or wishlisting! Bullet heavens have a bright future.
Great content, thanks for sharing! Didn’t know about 20 minutes til dawn, so will check it out!