🎸 SLAMPUNKS Demo Release

The demo is live. Grab one or two friends, link up, and go break it. Here's everything that just dropped.

🎸 Two new punks join the squad

Frill is a punk rocker who fights with a guitar and a stack of explosive speakers. He doesn't out-damage the room, he changes it. Land the right buff on your squad and a fight you were losing flips in a couple seconds. Debuff a boss and let your friends finish the job. Bonk is Chonk's little brother, and he wants you to know it. His weapon grows the longer the run goes, swinging into explosive crit damage that scales into the absurd. He inflicts and consumes goo just like Chonk, so a Chonk + Bonk squad turns the whole arena into a hazard the two of you control.

✨ New features

• Supply drops - extra-powerful upgrades that land between objectives and hand you general augments. The kind the whole squad fights over.

• Achievements - they grant currency and unlock characters and content as you play. This is the first step toward something bigger: real missions that keep you coming back and pay out properly. More on that soon.

• Lobby rework - the whole lobby got rebuilt. Separate tabs for character selection, mission details and modifiers, the Armory, and achievements. And yes, full gamepad support.

🎥 Camera modes

You can now switch your camera view mid-run. Press C to cycle through three modes and use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out. Top-down when you need to read the swarm, closer in when you want to feel the hit as you launch your buddy at the boss. We also added a spectator camera, so you've got something to watch while you wait to respawn.

⚖️ Balance and changes

• Several new general augments, plus reworks to existing hero augments for better build variety

• Kitsune rebalanced - her basic attack now fires spread arrows with no combo counter to track

• Chonk rebalanced - less immune to attacks during his kinetic ability

• Objectives rebalanced - they now gain health incrementally over time

• "Big supply drop" objective reworked into "hack the beacon"

• Boss attack cooldowns reworked

• Slight enemy balancing

• Optimization work

• Bugfixes

• Gamepad navigation and glyphs reworked, plus Steam Deck support

• Map environment and objective rework - more sightlines for navigation and a stronger junk-punk quarry atmosphere

Go play it

The demo is free, runs 1 to 3 players, and the funniest moments still come from what you do to each other. Pull in a friend or two and see how broken you can make a run. If you like it, wishlist while you're there so you don't miss Early Access. Play the demo on Steam → Broke something hilarious, found a bug, or built something that shouldn't be legal? Bring it to the Discord. We read everything. Join the riot on Discord →