Nubby’s Number Factory

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The Game

Nubby’s Number Factory is a plinko-style roguelike developed and published by MogDogBlog Productions and released on Steam on 7 March 2025. You are a low-ranking employee at a number factory, and your job is to launch a small spherical friend called Nubby down a pegboard to make bigger and bigger numbers. Miss your quota and, according to the Steam page, the sun explodes – the story is a daft excuse for the loop, and it is all the better for it.

Each round you aim Nubby at a board of numbered pegs. Every peg you hit scores its value and shrinks (or pops), and you need to reach the round’s target score before Nubby falls out of the bottom. The target is worked out from the total value of every peg on the board and then multiplied by a number that grows as you visit more shops, so you cannot just coast. Every few rounds you visit the Nubby-Mart to spend coins on items that fill up to seven slots, and these are what the game is really about: items that double pegs, pop pegs, add flat points or trigger each other in chains, plus perks and a second shop called Cafe Nubby that you unlock by buying all the extra slots.

A run lasts 80 rounds, with a boss every 20 rounds and the scenery changing zone as you go, and after that Endless mode starts. The Steam page promises over 50 unique items and the build variety is the main draw – the screenshots below go from a simple round 2 board to the glorious chaos of round 97.

Nubby's Number Factory screenshot of round 2: the blue ball Nubby is aimed with a dotted arrow at a pegboard of orange and yellow numbered pegs, with a quota of 12 and item slots 5 to 7 still locked.

Nubby's Number Factory Nubby-Mart shop screen offering four items for gold, with a freeze button, an Expand option for one extra item slot costing 5 gold, Reroll and Done buttons and a rare item odds of 5%.

Worth it?

Nubby’s Number Factory costs £4.29 on Steam in the UK (price checked on 25 October 2026). The lowest UK price SteamDB has recorded is £2.14 (50% off), so a sale makes it a no-brainer. It is available on PC (Windows only) and is rated Playable on Steam Deck.

It is a very easy recommendation on price alone. Steam reviews are Overwhelmingly Positive, at about 97% positive. The standout feature is the way builds snowball: finding an item combination that sends the numbers into the millions, billions and beyond is hugely satisfying. The main criticism is randomness – the bounces and shop offers can sink a run that looks like it is going well, and a single bad drop can undo a build, there are times when the game feels quite punishing and has definitely resulted in some rage quits.

Overall, it is a cheap, addictive game that is perfect for short sessions, and well worth the price.

Tips

Early on, buy items that give flat points, such as Cheese House, Poop Butt, Finger Puppet, Squirmy or Sea Cucumber – they earn you restocks and coins quickly, which lets you afford better items
Sell those flat-point items once they stop contributing – by the mid and late game the target is far bigger than they can handle
The target score is based on the total value of all the pegs on the board, so look for items that add value to pegs rather than just popping them
In the late game the target outgrows the total value of the board, so clearing every peg is not enough – you need doublers and items that raise peg values, such as Kazoo, which doubles a random peg every 1.5 seconds
Buy the extra item slots (5 coins each, up to a maximum of 7) – once you have bought them all you unlock Cafe Nubby, which sells single-use food items
Freeze an item in the Nubby-Mart by dragging it onto the ice (snowflake) icon so it stays in its slot when you reroll or come back later, and click it to unfreeze
Right-click an item in your inventory to sell it
Perks and items that force-trigger your item slots work well with doublers like Kazoo
Expect a boss every 20 rounds, with the main run finishing at round 80 before Endless mode begins
Mods: there is no Steam Workshop support. Unofficial modding is done with the Undertale Mod Tool on the game’s data.win file, and the Nubby’s Forgery modloader on GitHub was built for version 1.3.1.5, so it may not work with the current version. Always back up your data.win and your save first

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Noobs Are Coming

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The Game

Noobs Are Coming is a synergy roguelike developed and published by Overboy, and it flips the usual fantasy RPG on its head – you are the final boss of an MMORPG, and the “noobs” of the title are the adventurers (complete with silly usernames and chat messages) who keep turning up to kill you. It entered Early Access on Steam on 15 July 2025 and reached version 1.0 on 27 November 2025. If you have played Brotato the format will feel familiar – the developer lists it and The Binding of Isaac as the main inspirations – but the boss theme gives it a personality of its own.

You pick a boss from a roster of 45 playable characters, each with its own effect, and survive wave after wave of heroes in a small arena. Between waves you spend souls in the shop on attacks (70+ of them, including boss patterns, minions, plants you can water and physics attacks such as chained spikeballs that you can kick around) and items (150+) to build a ridiculous, synergy-fuelled monster. There are 138 unlockables, five difficulty levels plus an Endless mode, a Character Merge feature that combines the effects of other characters, and runs that take under 30 minutes.

It can be played solo or with up to four players in local co-op, and online through Steam Remote Play Together. There is also a Twitch streamer mode which pulls usernames and messages from your chat to name the noobs. The screenshots below show the title screen, the character select, a few boss builds and the four-player co-op mode.

Noobs Are Coming gameplay screenshot of the pink screaming boss character Mom swinging spiked chains at a crowd of tiny adventurers on wave 7 of 20, with the speech bubble YOU ARE NOT PREPARED.

Worth it?

Noobs Are Coming costs £6.69 on Steam in the UK (price checked on 25 October 2026). The lowest UK price recorded on SteamDB is £4.01 (40% off), which was the Early Access launch discount in July 2025, so a sale price in that region is the one to wait for if you are not in a hurry. It is available on PC (Windows only) and is Steam Deck Verified. A demo is available on itch.io if you want a taste first.

The best things about it are the sheer variety – the characters really do change how you play – and the jokey presentation, with the noobs shouting things like “Leeroy Jenkins” and trading insults. Runs are short, so it is easy to fit in a few at a time. What really makes it shine is the ability to make things go truly crazy with stacking weapons and synergies. Overall Steam reviews sit at around 81% positive from roughly 1,600 reviews, but the most recent reviews were Mixed (47% positive over the last 30 days when I checked), so it is worth skimming those before buying – the developer has been rebalancing the game frequently, so how it plays can shift from patch to patch.

Overall, if you enjoy Brotato-style games and want something with more personality and co-op, it is a fun, cheap pick, and one to buy on sale if you are on the fence. I have sunk over 40 hours into it quite easily and I still haven’t unlocked all the characters – the frequent updates also give it good revisit value.

Tips

Skull is a good balanced character to start with before you move on to the stranger bosses
Buy survivability first – HP, armour, dodge and regeneration – and only then start stacking damage
Turn down the attack opacity in the settings (there is a transparent attacks option) so you can see enemies and projectiles through the chaos
Do not grab everything – build around one or two core interactions and attacks that share synergy tags so they boost each other
Heroic Noob boss fights appear in the later waves – the developer’s patch notes mention waves 15, 20 and 25 – so have your defences ready before wave 15
Character Merge unlocks once you have unlocked 15 characters (it used to be 25), and it lets you combine the effects of other characters
Physics-based attacks like spikeballs and wrecking balls can be kicked around, so position yourself to hit enemies with them
Difficulty 5 needs only one win on each earlier difficulty to unlock, so you can reach it faster than before
In co-op you can set shared souls, shared chests and shared XP, so decide the rules before you start a run
Online co-op uses Steam Remote Play Together – only the host needs to own the game
Mods: I could not find any Steam Workshop or official mod support for this game, so there are no mods to recommend

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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.

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