Bioprototype

A fun creative roguelike, certainly worth it for the very low price. Personally I got it for free during a special sale, but even at full price it's already almost basically free tbh. I really enjoyed discovering all of the different interactions between organs, it was fun figuring out how they work together and how to make something OP out of them. And of course, die trying a few times first. After a while you do figure out what works and what doesn't, making it have limited replayability, but at that point you've already gotten your money's worth. I also feel like the final difficulty level was a bit of bad choice, limiting player choice and making it too dependent on RNG, so I just beat that one as much as I needed for the achievements and then stuck to lower difficulty levels.

For the love of God I can not understand what nerves and stuff do. Too complicated.

vampire survivors for intellectuals

This is a really cool survivors-style game with programming elements on your weapons and skills. For example, you'll have a weapon (called an organ), and then when you get another organ, you can choose to attach it to yourself to get the base effect of that organ, or you can attach it to your first organ to have the second organ trigger when the first organ hits an enemy. Unfortunately, the game seems to suffer from translation/localization issues and some of the English descriptions don't make a lot of sense. There are many Steam guides available though that you can skim to get the gist! Once it clicks, it's really fun. Played entirely on macOS. It's $5, totally worth checking out for the price of a coffee!

I may have not played a lot but it was really fun.

Similar to other bullet hell games. It's entertaining for a couple hours