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Hell Bug

Hell Bug is a simple roguelite shooter where you build a swarm of chaos from the remains of your enemies. Designed as a basic arcade style experience, you focus on crushing mutant bugs and unlocking defeated bosses' children, as powerful new allies. Each bug has a story, some shouldn't be told.

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June 8, 2026
54 days ago
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Positive12 reviews100.0%

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About the Game

Hell Bug is a fast-paced action roguelike game, with lots of fun and unique guns AND abilities, fight with insects as insects. Choose your character, AFTER defeating the bosses for the first time, you will unlock new characters that has the bosses' abilities in a smaller scale but the fun stays the same!

Some normal bugs tried to survive in their nests, one of them was our brave ant soldier,he did everything he could to keep his family and nest alive. But he needs equal power to fight with the evil Hell Bugs, so collect eggs from the bosses that you defeat and raise your little Hell Bug army and fight with characters that each have unique abilities! 

With precedural systems like rooms that were hand-crafted and embedded in random system, also with lots of different weaponry, you can expect to encounter ANYTHING, therefore the fun never ends! You don't die permanently in this universe because of your mutational powers, so don't be sad when you "die", grab your gun and start again to explore the world of bugs from Hell Bug's perspective!