Have you crash-landed on an alien planet recently? No, because Beacon recently got a bunch of new guns and weird body parts, and Beacon is a gorgeous sci-fi shooter with a stylish aesthetic that's hard to resist. Last week, Beacon received a major 2.5 "Pathfinder" update and finished its Early Access content for release later this year. This update added 100 new weapons to Beacon. I can only attribute this to the flare gun, not me, as it kills me every time I pick it up; the Pathfinder update also revamped the pickup items, adding passive pickups for those slobs who forget to use their active items. (1]

In Beacon, you collect DNA while defeating enemies and then use that DNA to modify yourself with new stats, powers, and abilities. You can build a lot of cool high risk/high reward setups. I'm a big fan of giving yourself as much speed as possible, even at the expense of literally everything else. The last update, 2.4, also added tons of new enemies.

I first heard about Beacon in 2016 and then caught up with itch to release it in 2018 Beacon is available on Steam and Itch.io for $20 and will be fully released later this year Beacon's gorgeous website can be checked out here.