Maybe there's a little Borderlands in there for good measure, too. Comparisons aside, Tower of Guns is a twitch shooter with roguelike elements that hope to keep every playthrough fresh. This means random enemies, random powerups, random bosses, many unlockables and even random levels every time you play. Excellent.

I could have quit. I could have made my defeat happen quicker, less painfully. But cliche or not, the captain goes down with the ship. The rules don't change just because we're in space. So I watched my crew dutifully tend to my systems, keeping the ship running as best they could. We knew we weren't going anywhere:…