- Calling All Screamers: KILLBUG Joins Steam Scream Fest! - 29 October 2025
The night descends, the nightmare unleashed! Come for the games, stay for the screams: Neon Doctrine joins Steam Scream Fest, with up to 90% OFF! 🎃Check out our games on sale here🎃 Grab KILLBUG for 70% OFF: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ Don't forget to join our community and follow our socials!
- KILLBUG Is A Part of Games Under 5 Hours! - 14 October 2025
Looking for quick games to end the day? Look no more, KILLBUG is a part of Games Under 5 Hours by Dear Villagers! Get KILLBUG now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ Don't forget to join our community and follow our socials!
- KILLBUG Is A Part of Boomstock 2025! - 23 September 2025
BLOOD, BULLETS, AND PURE CHAOS: KILLBUG crashes Boomstock Showcase 2025! Lock and load by getting KILLBUG for 70% OFF, only until September 27! Don't miss out or you'll regret it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ ~ Neon Doctrine 💜
- KILLBUG Is A Part of Brutal Indies Unleashed 2025! - 12 September 2025
Madness. Mayhem. Pure, infinite chaos. Indulge yourself in the carnage of Zlimbratski's Brutal Indies Unleashed 2025!🔥💀 KILLBUG is a part of the Brutal Indies Unleashed by Zlimbratski! Get KILLBUG now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ ~ Neon Doctrine 💜
- Spotlights, Screams, and Mayhem: Welcome to the Neon Doctrine Carnival of Chaos! - 24 July 2025
The carousel of games won't stop spinning... and it's calling your name. Presenting a chilling, thrilling, killer collection of ghoulish games and devilish demos, from Neon Doctrine and their fiendish friends! 🎪Enter the Carnival of Chaos and play the demos NOW!🎪 Sticky sweets, fresh grass, and clean carnival air, an experience the bugs enjoy just as much as people do. Luckily we have a solution for this infestation! It's time to call the KILLBUG. Step right up and take home the full KILLBUG experience for 70% off! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ ~ Neon Doctrine 💜
- The Sun is High, The Prices are Low: It's Summer Sale Time!☀️ - 26 June 2025
The sun is shining and the waves are calling! Summer is now in full swing, and that means up to a 90% discount on our games on Steam! ☀️ Beat the heat by staying indoors while playing awesome indie games from around the world that are currently on sale, published by yours truly!💖 ➡️☀️Check out our titles on discount during Summer Sale here☀️⬅️ KILLBUG is now on sale for 70% off! Grab it now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ ~ Neon Doctrine 💜
- Sun's Out, Games Out: Neon Doctrine is Here With Discounts! - 11 June 2025
Need to escape the burning summer heat? Perfect time to browse our Neon Doctrine Summer list and grab some great games at a discount! ➡ 😎 Neon Doctrine Summer Page 😎 ⬅ KILLBUG is now on sale for 70% off! Grab it now: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ ~ Neon Doctrine 💜
- The Swarm Descends at the Best Indie Games Summer Showcase - 3 June 2025
Hey everybody! KILLBUG, your favorite buggy arena shooter game, will be showcased in BIG Summer Showcase hosted by ClemmyGames!🐞 Slice through chitinous hordes, blast through buzzing clouds of enemies, and soar above the battlefield in fast-paced, adrenaline-fueled combat!💥 Check out the showcase - witness the carnage firsthand! 📅 June 3rd, at 8AM PT/ 5PM CET 📍Best Indie Games YouTube ⁉️ What is the BIG Summer Showcase? Curated by ClemmyGames, this annual digital event shines a spotlight on hundreds of upcoming indie titles, plus major updates for fan favorites. 📺 Expect new trailers, gameplay reveals, and behind-the-scenes insights, all streamed on YouTube. 💰 Week-long Steam sale featuring tons of showcased games at a discount. Get KILLBUG, join our community and don't forget to follow our socials!
- Sorry to BUG you—Insecticidal Movement Shooter KILLBUG joins Neon Doctrine! - 23 May 2025
Hey everybody! Neon Doctrine Community Manager here!👋 Neon Doctrine and Samurai Punk are thrilled to let you know that KILLBUG is joining the Neon Doctrine collection of incredible indie games!🎉🎉 Slash and shoot your way through hordes of ravenous insects, mastering fluid aerial movement as you fight for glory on the leaderboards in this 97% positive game from indie legends Samurai Punk! See you on the leaderboards! With love and bugs, Neon Doctrine💜 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2211730/KILLBUG/ Join our community and don't forget to follow our socials!
- Patch 1.1.03 - 19 October 2023
Hey everyone! In addition to some minor fixes and improvements, we've been working on a way to speed up the early stages of KILLBUG for our high-scoring players, and we're super keen to finally be sharing it with you all! Features Added gamepad acceleration settings. Added gamepad aim assist. Added Taunt system that unlocks for players who have reached 100K points. Hit 'T' (or gamepad west) to accelerate the game and smash out those early waves faster! Fixes Fixed bad reverb zones. Fixed bad distance compare on the blood shot causing some bad targeting. Fixed rotation of sword in main menu. Fixed flipped Steam Deck pause button. Disabled alt enter so it won't conflict with saved settings.
- KILLBUG has been nominated for an AGDA! - 14 September 2023
Hey everybody! 🐝 It's almost Melbourne International Games Week, which means we're gearing up for the Australian Game Developer Awards (AGDAs), and we've got some exciting news: KILLBUG has been nominated for Excellence in Sound Design! We'd like to give a massive shoutout to our Composer & Sound Designer, Mitchell Pasmans, for making all the wonderful buggy sounds and music for the game. 🐞 You can follow Mitch on Twitter to keep up-to-date with all the fun stuff he's doing, and stream his songs in all the places you listen to your tunes! If you really wanna make his day, you can buy any of our game soundtracks on Bandcamp. (They're all bangers, trust me. Look at Mitch's funky party shirt. How can they not be?) Much Love, Samurai Punk :)
- KILLBUG Community Challenge - Melee Only - 15 August 2023
Hey everybody! It's time for another KILLBUG Community Challenge in our Discord server, and this time it's 'Melee Only'! Get the best score you can while only using melee combat, and post it in our server. (We recommend just unbinding your shoot input!) Make sure to record your runs too; I'm gonna need to see some proof of the winning score! The challenge will end on Tuesday the 22nd of August @ 11am AEST, so you've got a week to throw out your SMG and send in your best sword-slashing scores! GOOD LUCK :))) Much Love, Samurai Punk
- Pest Control 101 w/ the Killbug - 10 August 2023
G’day, mate. Hope you’re ready for a fight. Look, I might be the Killbug, but I’m feelin’ charitable today. You’re gonna need some top tips from the master herself if you wanna survive down here. I’m not gonna just hand it all to ya though. It’s still a bug-eat-bug world, y’know? 1. Aerial Destruction First up, your gun is gonna do heaps more damage in the air, so don’t waste time hanging out on the ground. Unfortunately, I lost my wings in a certain exile-related event, (you might’ve heard about it), so double-jumping, knife-jumping and wall-running are my secret weapons. Get some height and rain death from above. 2. It’s Time to Slam Now There’s one exception to my “get off the ground” rule: you’re allowed to head down there if you’re smashing into it with extreme force. A.K.A, the Ground Slam. When you’re falling from a decent height, look down and melee when you’re almost at the gro…
- The winner has been crowned! — 'No Jumping' Community Challenge - 21 July 2023
Hey everyone! Community Manager Liv here, letting you know that our first KILLBUG Community Challenge has come to an end! ICYMI: we held a week-long competition in our Discord server where everyone was battling for the highest score without jumping. As usual, the Spunk community showed off their skillz and got some crazy no-jumping scores. The winner was Meario, and you can check out their score of 46,550 on YouTube! (They posted this run literally 1 minute before the competition ended. It was wild.) SwagFisher84 had a veeery close second-place score of 46,475, and our current #1 player RetroRiggio deserves a moment of silence for the 58K run that they didn't get a chance to upload. (RIP) Thanks for participating! We had a lot of fun with this challenge, and I'm definitely keen to do more! If you've got challenge suggestions, or just wanna participate in future KILLBUG shenanigans, join…
- The first KILLBUG Community Challenge! - No Jumping - 13 July 2023
Hey everyone! :) Community Manager Liv here! I hope you're all having fun killing dem bugs. Over in our Discord server, we're running the first ever KILLBUG Community Challenge: get the highest score you can without jumping! (Anything you can do with melee is allowed, and it's probably easiest to just unbind your jump input. Alternatively, you can do your best to embody the spirit of an elephant, since they can't jump. Isn't that sad?) Make sure you're recording your runs; if you end up with the top score submitted in the server, we'll need proof to validate your win. We'd love to implement challenges like this in-game, but with a small team and limited resources, it's not really possible right now. Instead, I'll do my best to bring you fun competitions like this through our Discord! (Feel free to send suggestions/feedback into the server as well, if you have any ideas.) The Community C…
- Patch 1.1.02 - 29 June 2023
A massive thank you to everyone submitting bug reports in our Discord server! We've made some more fixes and refined the Ground Smash a bit. Improvements Improved the reliability of Ground Smash from higher heights and added an additional hit test when the VFX are spawned Bugs Fixed bug where the Tapeworm could spawn immortal Fixed bug where sounds would eventually stop in long play sessions Fixed Larva Hive sludge missing a proper death message Fixed issue where the Ground Smash VFX would play late KILLBUG is also officially verified on Steam Deck! Now you can enjoy all the bug-killing action wherever you want. Go outside and be one with the bugs.
- Patch 1.1.01 - 25 June 2023
Hey Everyone, Nick from Samurai Punk here with another small patch fixing some gripes people have been having with the Blood Shot targeting. Blood Shot Should overall feel more consistent and reliable Lowered reverb on Firefly Explosion Sounds Thanks to everyone in the community who helped test this update.
- 1.1.0 Hotfix 1 - 20 June 2023
Small hotfix to fix the tapeworm tentacles getting wildly stretched out as the game goes on.
- Blood for the Deceiver - Update Patch Notes - 19 June 2023
The Blood for the Deceiver update is here! The team has been working hard to bring you as many player-requested features as possible, along with plenty of new secrets to uncover, so we're SUPER excited for everyone to try this update. Thank you for supporting KILLBUG so far! If you wanna chat with other players, and the Spunk devs, jump into our Discord server! Features Version increased from 1.0.02 > 1.1.00 Added new late game enemies Added 29 Steam achievements Added full controller and mouse and keyboard rebinding, accessible via the 'Control' tab in the options Added option to use a modifier key for melee dash Added option to enable a simplified crosshair Added Arachnophobia Mode with two levels of intensity Added new weapon abilities Leaderboard UI overhaul Mini leaderboard added to main menu Added button to jump to your position on the global leaderboard Added buttons to jump to t…
- Blood for the Deceiver - A FREE content update coming on June 19th! - 16 June 2023
Hey everyone! First of all, we’d like to give a massive thank you to everyone who has supported KILLBUG so far! The top players are NOT messing around and it’s incredible to see. (You’re so much better than us and we’re totally not salty about it.) We’re releasing a FREE content update! The Blood for the Deceiver update will be available on June 19th, PDT. We can't share too many details right now, but the wait is almost over. In addition to the Steam achievements and input rebinding that heaps of you have been asking for, there's a BUNCH of fun stuff coming in this update. We’ll be streaming a launch event in our Discord server on June 19th, 4pm PDT, so tune in if you’re keen to check out the new update, see old KILLBUG development builds, and ask the devs some questions! Join our Discord to party with us! We hope you're all as keen for the update as we are. Much Love, Samurai Punk
