Seven Suns of Orion Trades Vampire Survivors' Hordes for Railguns and a Seven-minute Timer

I don't truly want to say a bad word about Vampire Survivors. I've adored the many hours I've spent in its endearingly slapdash dungeons. It's also responsible for spawning a thousand imitators, many of which I have also poured hours of my life into playing.

But, for all of its joys and successes, I can't defend its lack of railguns. I don't know what Poncle were thinking when they let you loose on a world filled with monsters and ghouls and didn't arm you with an electromagnetic gun that launches projectiles at more than 3 km/s. It may not be a stake doused in holy water, but I reckon the railgun in Seven Suns Of Orion would do just as good of a job against Dracula. In Seven Suns Of Orion, the universe is under threat from an invading drone army, and it falls to you to stop them.

Unlike Vampire Survivors, which challenges you to hold the hordes off for a full 30 minutes before completing a level, here you only have to survive seven. Though, when that timer hits zero, instead of an immortal reaper rushing in from the side of the screen to finish you off, here a boss enemy warps into battle.