Lunavania Bullet storms on the Moon

Every run starts with a choice: one of several characters, each with their own abilities, and a pool of hundreds of weapons, equipment pieces and skills. Nothing here caps out. Equipment and skills stack endlessly, so a build can grow into something ridiculous by the time you reach a boss. You drop a fire-spewing weapon into the merge system with another gun, and what comes out fires in ways neither one did. There are hidden skills and hidden merged weapons to stumble across, plus attribute customization, so two runs with the same character can play nothing alike. The pixel art keeps it all readable even when the screen fills with projectiles.

Levels are randomly generated, and the rooms inside them are a mixed bag on purpose. One door leads to a straight fight, the next to a parkour challenge, a stealth segment or a chase where standing still means getting caught. There are shops, sacrifice rooms, challenge rooms and rooms that trade your resources around, so every run is also a set of small decisions about what to spend and what to keep. The world unlocks piece by piece as you go deeper, and invades and other systems keep runs from settling into a routine. Fast, twitchy movement carries all of it: double jumps, dashes, rolls and wall kicks from the start.

The shooting is only half of it. Back at your base you build and furnish a home, with a wide range of furniture that also grants bonuses to your runs. You can farm crops, fish, and befriend the NPCs who settle in as you play. It sounds like a strange pairing, a bullet-hell roguelite with a farmhouse, but the loop works: materials and blueprints you earn in combat feed the base, and the base sends you back out stronger. When a run ends badly, there is always something quieter to do for twenty minutes before you try again.