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Megabonk

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The Game

Megabonk is a 3D roguelite survival game developed and published by a solo developer, vedinad, and released on Steam on 18 September 2025. If you have played Vampire Survivors or Brotato the idea will be familiar – your character attacks automatically while you concentrate on moving, and the screen slowly fills with enemies – but here the arena is a full 3D map that you can run, jump and slide around, which changes how the whole thing feels.

Each run drops you into one of the maps (Forest, Desert and the spooky Graveyard) with a starting character and weapon. You level up, pick from random upgrades, open chests, smash pots and use shrines and merchants to build a ridiculous snowballing character before the time limit and the bosses catch up with you. Between runs, the silver you collect is spent on permanent unlocks – new characters, weapons, tomes and extra slots – and a long list of quests tells you what to chase next.

There is no real story here and the developer says as much – it is all about the build and the chaos, with a cast of daft low-poly characters including a sunglasses-wearing monkey and a skeleton on a skateboard. The screenshots below show the Forest and Desert maps, a couple of the characters and one of the boss fights.

Megabonk screenshot of a silver-armoured knight running with a sword drawn while a huge horned wooden golem towers over them in a blue-tinted forest ruin.
Megabonk screenshot of a low-poly brown monkey in black sunglasses and grey trousers, standing on a grassy hill near stone ruins.
Megabonk gameplay screenshot of a gunslinger running across a sunlit desert dune with a horde of mummies behind, showing the HUD timer, minimap and Find the Boss objective.
Megabonk screenshot of a skeleton in sunglasses mid-air above a pink and blue skateboard, with motion-blurred crates flying past.
Megabonk boss fight screenshot with a dual-pistol gunslinger dodging a blue laser beam fired by the jackal-headed boss Juge Anubis under a blood-red sky.
Megabonk gameplay screenshot of a dark-clothed swordsman slashing a pack of green goblins in a purple-hazed pine forest, with a treasure chest nearby and health bar, minimap and timer on the HUD.

Worth it?

Megabonk costs £8.50 on Steam in the UK (price checked on 25 October 2026). It launched with a small launch discount, and the lowest UK price recorded on SteamDB is £5.10 (40% off), which it hit on 17 September 2026 – so if you are patient, a sale of around £5-6 is realistic. It is available for PC (Windows and Linux) and is Steam Deck Verified. There is also a free demo on Steam if you want to try it first.

The standout feature is the movement. Jumping, sliding and bouncing around the 3D arenas while a horde chases you is far more fun than it has any right to be, and the huge range of weapons, tomes and items makes it easy to find a build that clicks. Reviews are overwhelmingly positive, at roughly 93-94% from over 100,000 Steam reviews when I checked. The main criticisms are that the arenas can feel repetitive, the difficulty can spike abruptly, a lot depends on random upgrade luck, auto-targeting can be awkward, and progression slows down after the first few hours. There is also no official multiplayer, although the modding community has filled that gap.

Overall, for the price this is an easy recommendation if you enjoy the survivors-like genre – it is polished, endlessly replayable and very cheap for what you get.

Tips

  • Start with Fox or Sir Oofie, the two starting characters – CL4NK is unlocked by clearing the Forest on Tier 1
  • Silver is spent between runs on permanent Unlocks and gold is spent during a run – meeting an unlock’s requirement is not enough on its own, you also need to go and buy it
  • Break every pot you pass – they are a free source of resources
  • Take extra jumps and movement speed early – mobility is your main defence in a 3D arena
  • A single level of Shield is worth taking, but you do not need to stack it
  • Charge shrines only work while you stand and hold the interact button inside the circle, and Greed shrines make the run harder (about +5% difficulty) in return for more rewards
  • Prioritise Moai statues and merchants early in a run so their benefits have time to snowball, if you use a merchant after you’ve opened chests, their prices will be higher
  • Extra weapon and tome slots come from lifetime quest counts – once the quest is complete you still need to buy the slot in the Shop
  • Refresh, Skip and Banish for level-up choices are unlocked through quest milestones, and are well worth unlocking to steer your build
  • Mods: there is no Steam Workshop support, so install mods through Thunderstore using the r2modman or Gale mod managers and the BepInExPack IL2CPP – do not mix BepInEx and MelonLoader, and back up your save first
  • Useful mods include MegabonkTogether and BonkWithFriends (co-op), BonkTuner, AutoInteract, UnlocksSearch, LoadoutPresets, MegabonkBetterMinimap and SpawnTracker – check each mod page for compatibility with the current game version

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Minecraft: Reclamation Modpack

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The Game

This modpack is a major overhaul of the Minecraft you’re used to seeing. You spawn in a desolate world, there are no more trees, no grass, no ores. The only things remaining are dead trees, ruins which hold some copper blocks and wasteland bees. From this bare minimum you will have to rebuild and rewild the world – no small task. There are also less hostile mobs coming out at night than before – husks, skeletons, cave spiders, creepers and endermen, you’ll have to bring animals back too.

You start out getting bits of copper from the ruins and you are then introduced to the Theurgy mod which eventually allows you to get your first dirt blocks – luckily you can get seeds by breaking the dried grass still left in this world and begin your journey. The early game is quite focused on crops – you will have to selectively breed and combine crops to progress from the base 4 types to re-discovering all other types of crop and seed. The first major milestone is cuprosia – a plant that allows you to grow copper. From there, more mods start coming in and opening up avenues to create and reintroduce more materials, plants and nature.

A video game landscape showing a large, rocky crater with a dark body of water in the center. The view includes a character's hand and HUD displaying health, inventory items, and controls.
A Minecraft gameplay screenshot showcasing a farmer's setup with crop sticks planted in a dirt field, a harvesting machine in the center, and a brown toolbox in the inventory.
In-game screenshot of a Minecraft environment featuring stone pillars with skull designs, colorful trees, and a player interface displaying health and inventory options.
A Minecraft scene showing a blood altar with a pig nearby, surrounded by various crafting materials and game interface elements.
An enchanted altar surrounded by plants and foliage, featuring a skull, a yellow cup, and torches on a red table, with game interface elements displayed.
A magical altar surrounded by bamboo and colorful flowers in a video game environment, featuring a gray skull, a golden chalice, and a lit candle on a red table.
Screenshot of a game interface showing a distillery crafting table with various items in the inventory and categories of materials on both sides.
An in-game screenshot showing an Exchange Tablet in a Minecraft-like environment, surrounded by several wooden tables and crafting stations, with player interface elements displayed on the screen.
Interior view of a Minecraft game showcasing a farming area with various crops, including vegetables and flowers, alongside a stone wall and a view of a mining map overlay.
A screenshot of a game interface showing a Calcinator Oven and various crafting components in a dimly lit environment.
A bird's-eye view of a Minecraft garden featuring various plants and crops, with a wooden walkway and surrounding structures visible under a night sky. A player character's hand is shown holding a tool, along with health indicators and a map displayed in the corner.
A Minecraft scene featuring a Mana Splitter from the Botania mod, next to multiple water-filled containers, yellow flowers, and a toolbox, set in a medieval-style environment.

Worth it?

The modpack is quite magic heavy – there are some very interesting mods and the work put in to make them all work together and work sequentially in the quest line is truly impressive. There is one mod that does let down the pack a little bit and a lot of the consensus online seems to back this – embers rekindled. At it’s heart it’s got some good things, but the trial and error element of using the Exchange Tablet can be very frustrating for players. While at its heart it is essentially a version of a mastermind game where you have to match elements to positions, it can be very frustrating and losing hard earned materials in this was can also be demoralising.

It is a slow pack, things take time and sometimes a lot of steps. It takes some considerable time to get to automation and making your life easier and more efficient. You have to enjoy the journey and take your time, if you enjoy that, enjoy building and the magic mods, you will definitely have fun. The custom quest line offers a strong reason to keep going and trying new things, getting familiar with particular mods requires more reading and experimenting with specifics. You can easily spend 30+ hours on the quest line alone. The work done by people to put together this amazing modpack is truly commendable.

Tips

  • In the early game focus on the crops, getting all 10s cuprosia will help massively with getting copper and using the watering can makes a huge difference to how quickly you can grow crops
  • Use a mastermind solver to for the exchange tablet to help solve it.
  • Once you get saplings a 4×4 Spruce tree is a great way to farm dirt by digging up the podzol it creates
  • Once you can make the botanist gear (with infused iron), create that and the aura cache so you can repair your gear and sword
  • In order to increase your Enchanted altar’s capacity plant a large variety of plants around it (not all plants contribute so do check), there’s also a cap on how much each plant will contribute – make it varied, various trees, mushrooms (also big ones), crops all contribute – in order to get a mob head – use the botanist’s sword when fighting mobs as it increases the chance of heads dropping.
  • Don’t ignore the agricraft seeds – this will be one of the most reliable ways to automate gold, iron, lead and other metal production in the mid game – combined with some automated Create farms you will have plenty of metals coming from these
  • Feeding the Herbivorous Absorber with flowers will actively generate aura in an area (it takes a lot)
  • Use a potency lens with the mana spreader in order to increase its mana output – longer term set up a semi automated solution with endoflames and the mana spreader pointing at a splitter and a few pools.
  • Once you start unlocking Create parts it’s worth making a mechanical saw, which massively speeds up cutting down trees (especially big spruce trees)
  • Read the books for each of the modpacks – there’s a lot of useful info in each of them for specific items and structures
  • Setting up a variety of automated farms with the various agricraft seeds will see you into the late game and take away some of the resource grind

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