Megabonk has withdrawn from The Recreation Awards

Nominees for The Recreation Awards had been released yesterday, and there is a entire lot of indie excellence on show. Nonetheless, one notable contender amongst them has determined to withdraw from competition.

The fabulously titled Megabonk obtained a nod for the Finest Debut Indie Recreation class. Nonetheless, the venture creator, who presently goes by vedinad, introduced on X in the present day that they had been withdrawing. “I’ve made video games previously below completely different studio names, so Megabonk just isn’t my debut sport,” the solo dev said.

The class is form of a bizarre one, since indie creators might have labored at different large or small studios. Even totally self-taught devs could have made and perhaps even launched a number of tasks earlier than having any form of breakthrough success or reputation. But when vedinad feels the sport does not match the class, then it is nonetheless a gracious transfer to bow out.

Megabonk follows within the latest lineage of Vampire Survivors, a preferred bullet-hell roguelike that simply arrived in virtual reality. The Megabonk riff takes the 2D idea right into a low-poly 3D and provides some fairly wacky characters into the combo. Venidad stated the title offered 1 million copies in simply two weeks, making it one of many newest Steam indie sensations to have an enormous second.