Tech: Early Access Roguelite Shoot-em-ups

After a long day at work, it can be nice to just sit back and obliterate a screenful of enemies with colorful explosions.  Today's PC games do exactly that:

Vampire Survivors

A tiny, retro-inspired, low-budget game developed by Luca Galante, Vampire Survivors became a viral hit this year and for good reason: you guide a little auto-attacking hero through hordes of monsters, and both your weapons and your foes become increasing ridiculous as time wears on. Level up enough, and you'll be lashing out flashing rainbows of destruction against oceans of skeletons, bats, and minotaurs - but, ironically and intentionally, no vampires.

Nova Drift

Nova Drift takes the gameplay conceit of Asteroids and infuses it with neon-colored chaos.  Your little ship slowly gains power as you survive enemy waves, and you buy new weapons, shields, armor, drones, and thrusters along upgrade paths that are almost entirely up to you. The thousands of ship builds you can create in this game are sometimes overpowered, but always hilarious.