DRG+Helldivers is the explaination I hear most. As someone who has over 500 hours in the former, and didn’t really get caught up in the hype for the latter I gotta say, it’s really fun.

Basically, you’re dropped into a map with a primary objective that you must complete, then move onto a boss fight, and finally run to an extraction zone after that. There are a bunch of additional side questy type things to do on each map as well. The gameplay itself is a lot of hoarde clearing, classic ‘circle strafe and shoot’ gameplay.

There are two things which give this game this game some extra spice. First, there’s a magic system where you can take 3 spells per mission, these are elemental and the elements have different interactions (eg fire spells will cause acid from acid spells to explode). The other thing is wildcards, which drop from enemies and events which provide random buffs for the remainder of the mission, these have the classic rarity based color system from…like everything, and while they hit the dopamine receptors, they don’t change gameplay too much.

There are different weapons to unlock, character stats to distribute, and a system where you unlock equipable cards so that you can go into a run with some buffs already applied.

I bought the game on a whim to try it out yesterday and ended up accidentally spending 4 hours in there. I’d say if you like DRG or Helldivers its at least worth a try, you can always refund if it’s not your vibe.

PS: When you finish a mission, you are immediately presented with the option to start a new mission or head back to the hub which is such an insanely nice QoL thing for back to back runs.

Screw it, they gave me a fully fleshed out demo - I just bought it! I really hope this turns into a positive vibes version of helldivers 2 or something of the sort!