Look, let us be honest for a moment. Blue Brain Games and Collision Games have just dropped a brand new demo for Expendabots on Steam, perfectly timed for Steam Next Fest. It is a cooperative escape game designed for one to four players, where the squad explores procedurally generated islands and dungeons, loots everything in sight, and tries to escape before the island collapses into nothingness.

You play as fragile, heavily outmatched robots who need to keep their voices down because the enemies can actually hear your proximity voice chat. In Expendabots, the mission is simple yet punishing: recover valuable tech from the ever-shifting islands of the Custody Zone and the abandoned dungeons beneath them. Every single dungeon is engineered to keep your nerves frayed. Enemies react to sight, sound, or both, meaning you will spend plenty of time sneaking through the dark, turning off lights, hiding when things get too close, and making a run for it when the stealth plan inevitably goes sideways.