[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":437},["ShallowReactive",2],{"studio-blog-post-killsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite":3,"studio-blog-related-killsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite":399},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"category":371,"cover":22,"coverHref":15,"date":372,"description":373,"draft":374,"extension":375,"image":376,"meta":377,"navigation":74,"path":378,"seo":379,"stem":380,"tags":381,"takes":388,"__hash__":398},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fkillsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite.md","KILLSEC Demo: Steam Next Fest Physics Roguelite Shooter","voltz",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":359},"minimark",[10,24,34,62,65,75,84,89,92,95,123,130,134,149,158,164,171,175,182,191,197,217,221,232,236,252,259,263,290,294,305,313,317,320],[11,12,18,19],"a",{"className":13,"href":15,"title":16,"style":17},[14],"vg-hotframe","https:\u002F\u002Fstore.steampowered.com\u002Fapp\u002F3940470\u002FKILLSEC\u002F","KILLSEC on Steam","background-image:url(\u002Fblog\u002Fkillsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite-bp-hero.webp)","\n  ",[20,21],"img",{"src":22,"alt":23},"https:\u002F\u002Fshared.akamai.steamstatic.com\u002Fstore_item_assets\u002Fsteam\u002Fapps\u002F3940470\u002Fb6fb3c944fa93b11b2e10c2ea3d62035684c98dc\u002Fcapsule_616x353.jpg?t=1792427974","Official KILLSEC Steam capsule: a pale blue synthetic fighter with glowing eyes crouches with a spear while red laser beams from two hovering drones cut down a dark corridor toward armored soldiers, under a chrome KILLSEC logo (TurboNerds Games)",[25,26,30,33],"p",{"className":27,"style":29},[28],"blog-muted","margin:-0.75rem 0 1.5rem;font-size:0.9em",[11,31,32],{"href":15},"KILLSEC (Steam)",". Hover for a Voidge draft sketch inspired by a fragment of the capsule key art.",[25,35,36,37,41,42,45,46,49,50,53,54,57,58,61],{},"Dude, ",[38,39,40],"strong",{},"KILLSEC"," is the ",[38,43,44],{},"physics weapon roguelite"," I keep relaunching this ",[38,47,48],{},"Steam Next Fest",". It is a top-down shooter where time only really moves when you move, so every step is a decision. You grab swords, spears and shotguns, swat bullets back at the guards who fired them, and carve your way out of a megacorp black site. The ",[38,51,52],{},"free demo"," went live on Steam on October 19, 2026, and the full game is listed for ",[38,55,56],{},"Q1 2027",". App ID ",[38,59,60],{},"3940470",", Windows, Mac and Linux. No price is listed yet.",[25,63,64],{},"The dev pitched it on X as \"SUPERHOTline miami but you've got a gravity gun\", and lowkey that is the most accurate one liner I have read all fest.",[66,67],"iframe",{"title":68,"src":69,"width":70,"height":71,"style":72,"loading":73,"allowFullScreen":74},"KILLSEC clip on Voidge X","https:\u002F\u002Fplatform.twitter.com\u002Fembed\u002FTweet.html?id=2112548837588107673",550,650,"width:100%;max-width:550px;height:650px;border:0;border-radius:12px;margin:1rem 0","lazy",true,[25,76,79,83],{"className":77,"style":78},[28],"margin:-0.5rem 0 1.5rem;font-size:0.9em",[11,80,82],{"href":81},"https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002FmyVoidge\u002Fstatus\u002F2112548837588107673","Open the clip on X"," if the embed does not load. Cut from the official KILLSEC Demo Trailer.",[85,86,88],"h2",{"id":87},"what-is-killsec","What is KILLSEC?",[25,90,91],{},"The Steam store sums it up as a hardcore top-down shooter roguelite where you breach containment and escape a megacorp black site. The hook is right there in the short description: master your control of physics weapons to parry swords, bullets, lasers, everything. Time moves faster when you move, but staying still will not get you anywhere.",[25,93,94],{},"Here is the loop, straight from the store page:",[96,97,98,105,111,117],"ul",{},[99,100,101,104],"li",{},[38,102,103],{},"Close quarters combat roguelike."," You fight room to room and push your reaction times to the limit.",[99,106,107,110],{},[38,108,109],{},"The faster you move, the faster time moves."," Stand still and the world almost freezes. Sprint and it catches up.",[99,112,113,116],{},[38,114,115],{},"Turn every threat into a weapon."," Deflect lasers, outsmart enemies, and smash bullets back at your foes.",[99,118,119,122],{},[38,120,121],{},"Build a synthetic combat body."," Collect and stack items to upgrade it run after run.",[25,124,125,126,129],{},"Steam players tag it Action Roguelike, Top-Down Shooter, Bullet Time, Swordplay, Physics, Time Manipulation, Arena Shooter, Sci-fi and Cyberpunk. It also carries Violent and Gore tags: the content note mentions blood pools on death, thrown sharp weapons, guns and ammo. It is stylized pixel blood from a top-down camera, not Horror, and there is ",[38,127,128],{},"no AI disclosure"," on the store page we checked.",[85,131,133],{"id":132},"physics-weapons-are-the-whole-vibe","Physics weapons are the whole vibe",[25,135,136,137,140,141,144,145,148],{},"Every weapon in KILLSEC is a physical object. One store screenshot shows the ",[38,138,139],{},"greatsword"," mid swing in a grated lab, red and blue laser lines crossing the room, white armored guards closing in, and a ",[38,142,143],{},"1.9x"," combo ticking on the HUD. The dev added that greatsword with heavy sweeping attacks in late September, and that clip pulled about ",[38,146,147],{},"242k"," impressions on X. Sick.",[11,150,18,154],{"className":151,"href":15,"title":152,"style":153},[14],"KILLSEC greatsword fight under laser fire (Steam)","background-image:url(\u002Fblog\u002Fkillsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite-bp-greatsword.webp)",[20,155],{"src":156,"alt":157},"https:\u002F\u002Fshared.akamai.steamstatic.com\u002Fstore_item_assets\u002Fsteam\u002Fapps\u002F3940470\u002Fc9fc9c8ba2e6f0b23863b3179d674076f6ca7fa0\u002Fss_c9fc9c8ba2e6f0b23863b3179d674076f6ca7fa0.1920x1080.jpg?t=1792427974","Official KILLSEC screenshot: a white armored fighter swings a greatsword in a dark grated lab while red and blue laser beams cross the room, armored guards close in and a glowing orange core burns on the right, with speed, armor, combo and blood counters on the HUD (Steam)",[25,159,161,163],{"className":160,"style":29},[28],[11,162,32],{"href":15},". Hover for a Voidge draft sketch inspired by a fragment of the greatsword screenshot.",[25,165,166,167,170],{},"The dev's own X clips show how deep it goes: parrying a shotgun blast with a throwing knife, and an item combo of ",[38,168,169],{},"Telekinesis plus Midair Autofire",". One demo review says you can grab knives out of the air and throw them back at their owners. For real, that is the clutch moment this game is built around. And if you want to go full melee, the dev confirmed on X that you can absolutely just use the melee weapons.",[85,172,174],{"id":173},"bullet-time-with-a-speed-ladder","Bullet time with a speed ladder",[25,176,177,178,181],{},"The slow mo is not a power you pop. It is the default. Your speed shows on the HUD as a percentage, and a demo reviewer called the scaling slow motion great for giving you a beat to assess while still letting you chain big combos. The catch: the dev explained on X that ",[38,179,180],{},"ascension levels slowly crank the minimum speed up until it is real time",". So the training wheels come off as you climb.",[11,183,18,187],{"className":184,"href":15,"title":185,"style":186},[14],"KILLSEC double barrel combo in a bloody lab (Steam)","background-image:url(\u002Fblog\u002Fkillsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite-bp-doublebarrel.webp)",[20,188],{"src":189,"alt":190},"https:\u002F\u002Fshared.akamai.steamstatic.com\u002Fstore_item_assets\u002Fsteam\u002Fapps\u002F3940470\u002Fefad712ac1218ee56626a6d367427702093c0715\u002Fss_efad712ac1218ee56626a6d367427702093c0715.1920x1080.jpg?t=1792427974","Official KILLSEC screenshot: a white armored fighter with a double barrel shotgun stands in a lab with glowing cyan floor panels, surrounded by fallen guards, dropped spears and pools of blood, while the HUD shows a 3.4x combo and blood earned (Steam)",[25,192,194,196],{"className":193,"style":29},[28],[11,195,32],{"href":15},". Hover for a Voidge draft sketch inspired by a fragment of the double barrel screenshot.",[25,198,199,200,203,204,207,208,211,212,216],{},"Blood is also the currency. The HUD tracks it next to your combo, and a ",[38,201,202],{},"holo vend"," shop sells items for it. The store screenshot shows a ",[38,205,206],{},"Reinforced Arm"," that gives your weapons 10% more knockback and knockback resistance per stack, for ",[38,209,210],{},"50 blood",". If you liked how ",[11,213,215],{"href":214},"\u002Fblog\u002Fgunblade-ranger-steam-roguelite-shooter\u002F","Gunblade Ranger"," ties ammo to executions, this is that energy with way more chaos per room.",[85,218,220],{"id":219},"what-the-trailer-shows","What the trailer shows",[25,222,223,224,227,228,231],{},"Our clip keeps three takes of pure play from the official ",[38,225,226],{},"Demo Trailer"," (movie ",[38,229,230],{},"257408152","). First, a laser lit room with a glowing core where a slow mo melee chain drops a squad. Second, laser beams slicing across a bloody room while blades swing and deflects spark. Third, a spear run past a glowing core with the combo meter sitting above 2x the whole time. No menus, no logo cards.",[85,233,235],{"id":234},"what-is-in-the-next-fest-demo","What is in the Next Fest demo?",[25,237,238,239,242,243,246,247,251],{},"The ",[38,240,241],{},"KILLSEC demo"," is free on Steam for Windows, Mac and Linux, in English, with achievements and adjustable difficulty. Steam Next Fest runs ",[38,244,245],{},"October 19 to 26, 2026",", and we put together a ",[11,248,250],{"href":249},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsteam-next-fest-october-2026-indie-demo-checklist\u002F","Next Fest demo checklist"," if you are planning your queue. One reviewer notes the first lab area is on the easier side, then the next area opens into an endless mode that keeps building. Another praises the tutorial as extremely thorough while staying engaging.",[25,253,254,255,258],{},"The full game lists Steam Achievements, Leaderboards, Steam Cloud, partial controller support and ",[38,256,257],{},"11 languages",", including Brazilian Portuguese. Specs are tiny: Windows 10, 1 GB RAM and 1 GB of storage at minimum.",[85,260,262],{"id":261},"who-makes-killsec","Who makes KILLSEC?",[25,264,265,266,269,270,273,274,277,278,281,282,285,286,289],{},"Steam lists ",[38,267,268],{},"TurboNerds Games"," as developer and ",[38,271,272],{},"NoQuarter"," as co publisher. The game is the project of ",[38,275,276],{},"David Polk"," (@_dpolk on X, about ",[38,279,280],{},"1.45k"," followers), who has been posting dev clips since late summer and answering players in the replies. He said on X that a friend handles the tile sets and level decorations. His September post \"I'm making a Hotline Miami roguelike with physics weapons and SUPERHOT slowmo!\" pulled around ",[38,283,284],{},"228k"," impressions. NoQuarter announced it is publishing on demo day, and the Steam post says the team is targeting a ",[38,287,288],{},"full release in February 2027",", with more content and refinements coming before then.",[85,291,293],{"id":292},"is-the-demo-worth-it","Is the demo worth it?",[25,295,296,297,300,301,304],{},"Demo reviews on Steam read ",[38,298,299],{},"Positive",", with ",[38,302,303],{},"18 of 18"," recommending it as of about 11:05 BRT on October 20. Players compare it to Hotline Miami and Superhot, one calls it well optimized, and say it gets hella satisfying once the controls click. The honest knocks: one player wants it way harder, one says the item shop often offered only one or two useful items, and another noticed the mouse is not locked to the window. The full game has no reviews yet since it is unreleased.",[25,306,307,308,312],{},"My verdict: fire. If you are into fast top-down shooters, bullet time or roguelites where skill beats stats, grab this demo first. If you want a slow tactical run or you are not into stylized gore, skip it. Same Next Fest energy as ",[11,309,311],{"href":310},"\u002Fblog\u002Fof-dice-and-minions-steam-next-fest-demo\u002F","Of Dice and Minions",", totally different reflexes.",[85,314,316],{"id":315},"image-credits-rights","Image credits & rights",[25,318,319],{},"Images on this page are hotlinks from the official Steam store assets for KILLSEC, used with respect for their copyright.",[96,321,322,328,335,342,349,356],{},[99,323,324],{},[11,325,16],{"href":15,"rel":326},[327],"nofollow",[99,329,330],{},[11,331,334],{"href":332,"rel":333},"https:\u002F\u002Fstore.steampowered.com\u002Fapp\u002F5122390\u002FKILLSEC_Demo\u002F",[327],"KILLSEC Demo on Steam",[99,336,337],{},[11,338,341],{"href":339,"rel":340},"https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002F_dpolk",[327],"David Polk (@_dpolk) on X",[99,343,344],{},[11,345,348],{"href":346,"rel":347},"https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002FNoQuarterSoft",[327],"NoQuarter Software (@NoQuarterSoft) on X",[99,350,351],{},[11,352,355],{"href":353,"rel":354},"https:\u002F\u002Fkillsec.net",[327],"KILLSEC website",[99,357,358],{},"Screenshot sources remain on the Steam CDN (capsule and store screenshots for app 3940470). Voidge hosts only purple crop-inspired draft sketches for hover and fallback, plus the short blog clip.",{"title":360,"searchDepth":361,"depth":361,"links":362},"",2,[363,364,365,366,367,368,369,370],{"id":87,"depth":361,"text":88},{"id":132,"depth":361,"text":133},{"id":173,"depth":361,"text":174},{"id":219,"depth":361,"text":220},{"id":234,"depth":361,"text":235},{"id":261,"depth":361,"text":262},{"id":292,"depth":361,"text":293},{"id":315,"depth":361,"text":316},"indie","2026-10-20T11:00:00","KILLSEC is a free Steam Next Fest demo: a top-down roguelite with physics weapons and bullet time that speeds up when you move. Full game Q1 2027.",false,"md","\u002Fblog\u002Fkillsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite-bp-hero.webp",{},"\u002Fblog\u002Fkillsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite",{"title":5,"description":373},"blog\u002Fkillsec-demo-steam-next-fest-physics-roguelite",[382,383,384,385,386,387],"killsec","turbonerds-games","roguelite","top-down-shooter","steam-next-fest","steam",[389,392,395],{"author":390,"text":391},"junno","Deadass the slow mo is the whole pitch, and the dev already said ascension levels crank the minimum speed until it is real time. If the full game keeps that ladder honest, this goes hard. If it turns into a reflex tax, it gets cooked fast.",{"author":393,"text":394},"pixxer","The art direction is so clean for something this bloody. Flat grey grating, bright red laser lines, white armored guards and a glowing core in the corner, and you can still read every sword and bullet in one glance. Somebody fought hard for that tile work.",{"author":396,"text":397},"nyxe","Proper Next Fest timing, this. A publisher was announced the day the demo landed, the full release is pencilled in for February 2027, and the demo reviews are spotless so far. Reckon the real test is whether the item shop gets sorted before launch.","iZJDMTVpu_EN27DMvd5uvM-2bb38UvHbp92jzArmeOo",[400,412,424],{"path":401,"title":402,"description":403,"date":404,"category":371,"author":6,"tags":405,"image":409,"cover":410,"coverHref":411},"\u002Fblog\u002Fof-dice-and-minions-steam-next-fest-demo","Of Dice and Minions: Steam Next Fest Dice Roguelite Demo","Of Dice and Minions is a free Steam Next Fest demo: roll five dice, chase poker hands, summon a minion army. 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