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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 title screen with the red logo above a group of boss characters on a stone arena, facing a row of small adventurer heroes below.
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.
Noobs Are Coming character selection screen showing the Mom boss description, difficulty and endless wave records, a Co-op toggle and a grid of more than 40 boss characters.
Noobs Are Coming four-player co-op screenshot with a health and level bar in each corner of the screen, four boss characters fighting a swarm of adventurers on wave 10 of 20 amid lightning and fire effects.
Noobs Are Coming screenshot of a purple crowned snake boss fighting a hero party named Trinity_Tank, Trinity_DPS and Trinity_Healer on wave 15 of 20, with chat-style taunts and floating damage numbers.
Noobs Are Coming screenshot of a green spiky plant boss surrounded by angry carrot, tomato and cactus minions fighting adventurers in a graveyard arena on wave 6 of 20.
Noobs Are Coming screenshot of a skull-headed bone worm character surrounded by pink worm minions with open mouths attacking adventurers on wave 5 of 20.
Noobs Are Coming screenshot of a skull-faced armoured boss in a green arena surrounded by hordes of adventurers, frogs and fairies, with lightning, red warning circles and glowing purple souls everywhere.
Noobs Are Coming pre-wave intro card showing a sad red potion boss on the left and a gold-helmeted knight named FriendlyFire on the right shouting LEEROOOY JENKINS.
Noobs Are Coming versus screen with a winged vampire boss named Nosferastik on the left facing a tank, a rogue and a healer named Trinity_Tank, Trinity_DPS and Trinity_Healer on the right.

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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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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