NULL Root - James Suret - Arcade roguelite, like Geometry wars but with more skills.
With permanent upgrade tree with passive and active skills to equip to the mouse buttons. So, no in-run upgrades, you do all the upgrading and equipping stuff before each run but the runs are shorter, only 5-15mins. Game trailer is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3WrG4P98\_w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3WrG4P98_w You can buy lots of skills but you can only have 2 on at any time, L/R mouse buttons to trigger them, so you can do combos with them.
One of the main twists is the control scheme. You don’t control a traditional character with WASD, your “Patch Daemon” follows your mouse cursor (you can use gamepad analog sticks). Some abilities fire from the daemon and others fire directly from your cursor. You can temporarily detach (holding space) the cursor to position attacks independently. It ends up feeling a bit like controlling two points at once, and you can setup some interesting combos that way as there are AOEs and traps. For example you can place a "firewall" that blocks enemies on one side of the screen using the mouse cursor whilst firing off a AOE explosion from your "Daemon" body, or you can draw a line with your mouse cursor and it detonates.