Sluggerpunk

Sluggerpunk

Sluggerpunk Studios · May 1, 2024 · Action Roguelike, Bullet Hell, Roguelike, RPG, Twin Stick Shooter

Sluggerpunk is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

PC
Positive93% · 15
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →

Screenshots

Sluggerpunk price

Sluggerpunk is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Sluggerpunk

✦ AI summary

Sluggerpunk is a roguelike action game where you battle through a corrupt underground city armed with a baseball bat and baseballs, combining up to five items to create unique combat builds and unleash devastating attacks on waves of enemies. Survive the brutal arena, defeat the Grand Master Boss, and master the art of mixing elemental upgrades to carve out your legend in the shadows.


About This Game



Dive deep into the underground world of Sluggerpunk, where shadows loom large and danger lurks around every corner. Here, beneath the surface of a corrupt city, you arm yourself with nothing but a trusty baseball bat and baseballs to beat back the darkness and carve out a legend all your own.

Make yourself stronger by buying powerful upgrades from Telebi's shop. Shock, burn and blast your enemies into oblivion by combining up to five items, creating your own unique way of fighting the perilous underground. Whether you're a seasoned adventurer seeking the ultimate edge or a newcomer eager to embark on your journey, our shop has something for everyone.

Key Features:


  • Fight enemies using your baseballs and bat by giving them bullet hell.
  • Find and equip items that will grant you new abilities to fend off enemies. Mix and match them to see what builds you can come up with!
  • Defeat the Grand Master Boss, and rob him of his golden crown.
  • Survive in an arena mode that will require every possible trick you got up your sleeve. The longer you survive the stronger you, and the enemies, get.

Sluggerpunk — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Sluggerpunk is a Vampire Survivors-inspired roguelike that divides players sharply: some find it an enjoyable survival game with appealing pixel art and music, while others criticize it as a lazy, low-effort ripoff with poor gameplay and a poorly-fitting sports theme. The consensus appears mixed, with detractors viewing it as derivative and artistically inferior, though a smaller group of players genuinely enjoy the core experience.

Recommended Aug 13, 2024
⠀
10 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 4, 2025
"Sluggerpunk" is an appalling ripoff of Poncle's copyrighted Vampire Survivors (at this point in time no legal action has been taken). The only difference here apart from significantly worse gameplay and progression is a mild sports theme... that doesn't fit at all, so it's no wonder this was widely avoided by everyone on Steam. Like Vampire Survivors (because this is such a blatant ripoff), all you do is wander around/kite mobs while your autobattler skills kill them over time. That's it. This features really godawful, lazy pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks bad because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procge…
1 found this helpful
Recommended Sep 19, 2024
‎
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 5, 2024
This was a really fun game! I enjoyed hitting balls!
1 found this helpful
Recommended May 31, 2024
Very fun survival game, enjoying it a lot!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 26, 2025
Unique roguelike with cool art and music!

Community reviews

—

0 reviews

Sign in to write a review.

No reviews yet. Be the first to review this game.

More like Sluggerpunk

News

All news →
SilkMU is our new partner: MU Online Season 6 in a browser tabBlog

SilkMU is our new partner: MU Online Season 6 in a browser tab

SilkMU, a MU Online Season 6 server that runs in a browser tab or as an app, opened on 6 November 2026 and is now our partner. What it offers, what is free and what costs WCoin.

Nov 13, 2026
Games like Dying Light, where nightfall changes the rulesPC

Games like Dying Light, where nightfall changes the rules

Games like Dying Light are easy to find if you only want parkour or only want zombies. These eight keep the part that matters: a city that becomes a different place after dark.

Nov 13, 2026
Games like Portal 2, where one idea carries the whole gamePC

Games like Portal 2, where one idea carries the whole game

Games like Portal 2 all share one habit: teach a single impossible trick, then spend a campaign breaking it. From rewinding objects through time to Escher geometry that loops back on itself.

Nov 13, 2026
Planet Coaster DLC: skip the collection, buy the packsBundles

Planet Coaster DLC: skip the collection, buy the packs

The Planet Coaster DLC catalogue closed in 2019, so there is no curve left to wait out. Our record shows the collection bundle costs far more than assembling the same packs one by one.

Nov 13, 2026
Toxic Commando Game Pass: subscribe, or buy the key?Xbox

Toxic Commando Game Pass: subscribe, or buy the key?

The Toxic Commando Game Pass add landed on 12 November. Our price record since late September shows the key route barely moved, which changes what a subscription is worth.

Nov 13, 2026
Games like Titanfall 2, for the pilot or for the TitanPC

Games like Titanfall 2, for the pilot or for the Titan

Titanfall 2's campaign changed its own rules every mission. Games like Titanfall 2 that keep one part of it — the wall-running, the mech, or a campaign that never settles.

Nov 12, 2026
Games like It Takes Two, where the second player is the pointPC

Games like It Takes Two, where the second player is the point

It Takes Two cannot be played alone, and that is the whole design. Games like It Takes Two that give each player a different job — including one that makes do with a single pair of hands.

Nov 12, 2026
Football Manager 27 Game Pass, and what the old FMs now costXbox

Football Manager 27 Game Pass, and what the old FMs now cost

FM27 landed on 10 November, and Football Manager 27 Game Pass covers it on PC from day one. Steam has stopped selling FM26 and FM24 — our price record shows what that does.

Nov 12, 2026

Top games right now

All rankings →
  1. 1Counter-Strike 2Free
  2. 2Dota 2Free
  3. 3PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDSFree
  4. 4Grand Theft Auto V Legacy—
  5. 5Terraria$2.08
  6. 6Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six SiegeFree
  7. 7Rust$20.19
  8. 8Garry's Mod$6.21
  9. 9Team Fortress 2Free
  10. 10Black Myth: Wukong$35.78
  11. 11HELLDIVERS™ 2$23.99
  12. 12ELDEN RING$38.88
  13. 13Apex Legends™Free
  14. 14Left 4 Dead 2$9.99
  15. 15Stardew Valley$12.11
  16. 16Wallpaper Engine$3.93
  17. 17Cyberpunk 2077$17.99
  18. 18Euro Truck Simulator 2$4.99
  19. 19Dead by Daylight$6.83
  20. 20Red Dead Redemption 2$13.71
  21. 21The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt$9.77
  22. 22Baldur's Gate 3$53.62
  23. 23Phasmophobia$15.19
  24. 24War ThunderFree