Day Of The Devs’ Biggest Surprise Is An Inventive Tank Combat Roguelike, Out Now

Since 2012, , which let players customize their mechs to suit each situation. That comparison looks even more apt in boss battles. As a roguelike, the goal of TankHead is to destroy three bosses in a single run. The one shown off at Day of the Devs is a towering mechanical monster like those seen in FromSoftware’s recent mech battler, this one resembling a gigantic hermit crab wearing an entire hotel as its shell.

Of course, Day of the Devs was packed with plenty of the cute, offbeat, and downright inscrutable games its known for as well. Perhaps the prettiest of the bunch is another shooter, offers another cute shooter, a first-person game with brain-meltingly fast movement that makes your character hit harder and heal faster the quicker they’re running and dodging. Developer Funny Fintan Softworks says it’s coming to PC “soon.”

Another featured game putting a new twist on a familiar genre is Sleight of Hand. Putting a fresh twist on the stealth style of games like Dishonored, Sleight of Hand gives its heroine a suite of supernatural powers tied to a cursed deck of cards. By assembling your deck, you’ll be able to bring a new set of powers with you on each mission, finding ways to combine their unique effects with features of the environment to take down enemies or slip by unnoticed. Sleight of Hand doesn’t have a release date yet, but its Day of the Devs trailer already has me dreaming of the card-based shenanigans it could enable on PC and Xbox.

Then there are the downright bizarre games that truly make Day of the Devs the most exciting showcase around. First, there’s Blippo+, a barely describable adventure through TV that seems to comprise a collection of baffling “channels” to flip through, all with a lo-fi, one-bit aesthetic. I genuinely can’t tell what’s going on here, but I’m intrigued. PBJ: The Musical offers a slightly more comprehensible flavor of weird, telling the love story behind peanut butter and jelly combining to make the classic sandwich staple of lunchboxes everywhere. Presented with paper collages as art and a soundtrack full of original showtunes, PBJ: The Musical hits iOS in 2025.

It’s worth checking out the full, hour-long Day of the Devs showcase for even more indie goodness, from the anticipated Hyper Light Breaker to the pastel life sim racer Crescent County.