Prepare to Strike Enemies in Arena Shooter on November 6th!

October, 29, 2025 | Independently developed by Sky9 Games and published by IndieArk, the exhilarating arena shooter Strike Force Heroes (trailer, press kit) is set to make its official debut on Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 on November 6, 2025, with a price tag of $24.99 USD / €24.99 EUR. Fully optimized hardware, this edition promises a fluid and immersive online competitive experience that keeps players engaged from start to finish.

(*): The PS5 price will be a higher than the stated in this release.

Strike Force Heroes is a timeless 2D arena shooter that captures the essence of classic action. Players select from diverse character classes and align with AlphaSquad to confront foes across more than a dozen vibrant maps—from dense jungles, speeding trains and even plummeting aircraft. Arm yourself with an arsenal of weapons, collect valuable loot, and master skills to upgrade and personalize your hero, culminating in epic showdowns against formidable bosses. Every mode supports both PvP and co-op, enabling seamless teamwork with friends or fierce rivalries in adrenaline-fueled battles.

Key Features

• Customize Your Hero: Level up four classes with hundreds of weapons, outfits, and abilities, each with its own completely unique strengths, weaknesses, and playstyle.
• Choose Your Loadout: With hundreds of weapons, abilities, and equipment to choose from, there’s something for every play style. Go with a safe loadout, or create a clever setup that synergizes perfectly with all your equipment for risky yet deadly results.
• Epic Storyline: Experience an engaging storyline through fully animated cutscenes with wisecracking characters, explosive action sequences, and challenging boss fights.
• Endless Replayability: Beating the campaign unlocks harder difficulties to earn better rewards, further build out your heroes, and challenge even the most seasoned of players.
• Online Co-op and PvP: For the first time ever, invite your friends to join you throughout the entire campaign, or blast them away in fully customizable PvP custom matches, with no max player limits!

About IndieArk

Founded in 2019, IndieArk is an indie game publisher renowned for its professional marketing and localization team. The company is committed to offering a full suite of customized publishing services delivering unique and interesting games to the world.

IndieArk’s mission is to assist ambitious indie game developers with remarkable creativity while fostering a collaborative spirit in all of its partnerships.

About Sky9 Games

Founded in 2012, Sky9 Games is an independent game developer comprised of two team members, Justin Goncalves (the programmer) and Mike Sleva (the artist). Sky9 Games made the original Strike Force Heroes series, along with the Raze series, Siegius series, and more.

Article by: Susan N.

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Arena Shooter Brotato Available on Steam!

 

Zurich, Switzerland - June 23, 2023 - After an amazingly successful early access period, the Vampire Survivors-like Arena Shooter Brotato by Blobfish launches its 1.0 version on Steam today with a 20% launch discount.


The success of Brotato came as a surprise, especially for its developer Thomas Gervraud, also known as Blobfish. Before the game’s early access release, Thomas was unsure about his future as an indie game developer, as his two previous games had only found moderate success. Maybe making games about potatoes was just not going to cut it?


While working on Brotato, he had started to look for a job in case things didn't work out. However, three turned out to be Blobfish’s lucky number. After working on the demo for Brotato (his third game) for only three months, things started to take off. Brotato’s demo found a huge audience during its participation in the "Going Rogue: A Festival of Persistence" and "June Next Fest" events on Steam, garnering 40,000 wishlists for the game before its early access launch.

After its early access release, the game remained popular with streamers and continued to extend its reach. As of today, Brotato has sold over 2 million copies on Steam, maintaining an ‘Overwhelmingly positive’ rating at a $5 price point.

Quote from Thomas Gervraud about his design goals with Brotato:


    “My goal with Brotato is to appeal to a very specific niche of people by combining mechanics from a few different genres, mainly the survivor-likes with hordes of enemies to fight off and autochess games with a shop allowing the player to create unique builds through weapon synergies and combinations. Everything is glued together by a hand drawn artstyle and a potato theme.”


For its 1.0 release, many new features have been added to the game, such as new characters, weapons, items and bosses. All these expansions further increase the huge amount of combinations and play styles in the game.


Potato fans can jump right back into the bullet hell playing as a Golem drilling into its enemies, a Cryptid with claws or a King wielding Excalibur.

Thanks to Brotato’s success, Thomas is now making plans to build up a team around Blobfish. Even with all the changes happening in the studio, some things stay the same as Thomas claims that the studio’s future games are very likely to remain potato-themed.

Key Features

•     Auto-firing weapons by default with a manual aiming option
•     Fast runs (under 30 minutes)
•     Over 40 characters available to customize your runs
•     Hundreds of items and weapons to choose from (flamethrowers, SMGs, rocket launchers or sticks and stones)
•     Survive waves lasting 20 to 90 seconds each and kill off as many aliens as you can during that time
•     Collect materials to gain experience and get items from the shop between waves of enemies
•     Accessibility options: tweak the health, damage and speed of enemies so the difficulty is right for you

About Blobfish

Thomas Gervraud aka Blobfish is a solo developer from France who started making small potato rogue-lite games right after finishing his studies in late 2018. Blobfish published three commercial games so far: Space Gladiators, Lost Potato and more recently Brotato, whose success has allowed him to set up an actual studio and now he’s looking forward to expanding his team!

 

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Tesla vs Lovecraft DLC is now Available on Android and iOS

Tampere, Finland, May 2nd 2019 - Tesla vs Lovecraft, the award winning top-down shooter from 10tons is now available on Android with DLC. The game was also updated on iOS with the "For Science!" DLC.

”It's time to celebrate science & fiction: Tesla vs Lovecraft just won the Big Screen Game of the Year -category in Finnish Game Awards. We're super grateful for the prize.” says Olli Alatalo, the designer of Tesla vs Lovecraft.

Game Features

• Use the Quantum Teleport to zip out of harm's way and travel through solid objects!
• Activate the Tesla-Mech battle robot to rip apart even the most hideous abominations!
• Attack with shotguns, energy weapons, and scientific marvels such as the X-Ray Blade!
• Fight through story mode with bossfights and compete in survival mode online leaderboards!

 

"For Science" DLC Features

• Endless number of Dreamland Planes, for the players who feel Eldritch Plane is too easy
• 10 new Perks (2 EPICS)
• 4 new Weapons (including Teslazi, a submachine gun supreme)
• EPIC version of each and every weapon
• Collect Eldritch Signs for crystals
• More choice when leveling up: 3rd perk slot
• 2 new Abilities (Homing Pigeons!)
• 2 new Powerups
• 2 new Inventions
• 2 new Monsters (Cultists & Mi-Go)

In Tesla vs Lovecraft, the player assumes the role of the cult famous inventor Nikola Tesla fighting waves and waves of monsters summoned by horror author H.P. Lovecraft. The player gets to use ingenious gadgets like the Quantum Teleport backpack, which allows teleporting a short distance even through solid matter. The highlight of the game is the Tesla-Mech battle robot, which provides a massive but temporary boost in firepower. A full arsenal of conventional and sci-fi weapons, powerups, special abilities, and selectable perks is also present.

Tesla vs Lovecraft is purchasable on the iTunes App Store, Google Play, and Steam.

About 10tons

10tons is an independent game studio based in Tampere, Finland. Our mission is to create games which can be enjoyed on a wide variety of platforms from mobile to the latest consoles. 10tons works with numerous platforms from the common to exotic, including consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One to PCs running Windows, Mac, or Linux!

10tons is truly independent: We develop and publish our games ourselves. We are 100% self-funded: Revenues from past games fund new games. We even use our very own game engine to ensure minimum time to market when new opportunities arise. 10tons is a true artisanal game developer - from the first bit to the last.

Fun fact: We're the oldest game studio in Tampere, Finland. 10tons - since 2003!



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