Entropy Survivors (2024) - ★★★ The big differentiator here is that you have two weapons, a melee and a gun, and you can only fire one at a time. Since it’s a vampsurvalike, you get a bunch of subweapons linked to one or the other.
There’s also some really goofy fun powerups, like “roll em up” (make a katamari of enemies) and pinball (pinball into your enemies).
However, the early game is pretty stingy with powerup points, there is no refunds/respecing, and the weapon variety fries out pretty quick. So you get locked into the one thing you choose, power walls scale up, and you simply aren’t going to get anywhere without your Known Good Build.
Also, while it looks pretty, it definitely chugs on steamdeck even on low. A little bit of a strange choice for the genre imo.