I grabbed this, thinking it would go under the Survivorlikes at a glance when I was browsing demos. While you are picking up and upgrading weapons as you take on hordes, the fact that you’re doing it by rolling around your ball Katamari Damacy style. There is some shared DNA in getting weapon upgrades on leveling, but each gun has four parts to upgrade. You’re actively aiming and shooting the whole time, there is less gameplay similarity than I originally thought.
The demo starts with a small tutorial after picking your “difficulty”, which is picking what ball you’re rolling around. They each have different stats and abilities, such as jumping over enemies as a golf ball, or, having 1hp and increased damage with the glass ball. You’ll get the basics down and then sent into the actual level. I’m not sure what the end game of the demo is, I know on my best runs I had unlocked the air support flies and was fighting ants resembling tanks…but I hadn’t seen any of the interior of the ball gameplay noted on the full version page, which might be a roguelite feature.
Overall, I had fun, I was really surprised and pleased with how well it all works. I’m sure there are other games more like it, I feel like building your own guns is a feature of several, as is the twin-stick shooter aspect, I just can’t think of one putting both together like this. Anyway, you can try the demo for yourself, as the full release is still marked as “coming soon”.