My favorite roguelike in Steam Next Fest has a genius solution to Vampire Survivors' biggest problem
Cursorblade f🌠lips the script on the bullet heaven r༒oguelikes

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Steam Next Fest, the digital event swarming with cool demos, has countless games aiming at a piece of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Vampire Survivors' pie. Take a casual scroll through the available demos, and you’ll see dozens of top-down, auto-battling, roguelike, bullet heaven mash-ups. That was to be expected. But I wasn’t expecting to stumble on Cursorblade, which is already an absolute 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:roguelike banger in my eyes and potentially outshines the subgenre🐬's bigꦿ daddy.
Cursorblade can loosely be described as 'Vampire Survivors but you play as the cursor.' You drag your cursor (cosplaying as a blade, hence the name) through waves of enemies to damage them, and every time you slash the blob waves to dust, you&✨rsquo;ll be treated to a new ability - a fire trail, temporary invincibility, and contagious lightning are all on offer, among o♚thers.
But Cursorblade's biggest achievement is that it sidesteps Vampire Survivors' biggest issue: movement. Survivors is moreish until you find a winning strategy - after that initial thrill wears off, the game feels like you’re continually chasing flashier numbers as you walk in circles, waiting to either level up or get crowde𓃲d by zombies.
Unlike others in the growing subgenre, your enemies can’t move in Cursorblade. Only you can. Enemies will instead charge up attacks and glow before they chuck projectiles your way, or cho🐽mp at the air hoping to get a chunk of your health. Threading between projectiles and unfriendly blobs is oh-so satisfying, and knowing when to safely attack is half the battle here.
Cursorblade feels likౠe a more flexible and wholly engaging version of the Survivors-like thanks to that active movement. My spare hour practically evaporated while playing Cursorblade, as I swiped with all the glee of a child unwrapping Christmas gifts. And I can’t wait to lose many more hours staring at the deadly little cursor until my pupils turn to mush.
C🐻ursorblade fully releases on November 6th, and in the meantime, you can download the Next Fest demo on .
Steam Next Fest has tons to enjoy - from 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:underwater Soulslikes to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:2D takes on Bloodborne. Here are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:15 must-play demos from the event.
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