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Yawnoc

Yawnoc

Destroy hordes of strange machines that have invaded the forest. Yawnoc is a chaotic top-down shooter roguelite focused on immersion into the world of Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata.

Released Nov 13, 2024 Developer DaFluffyPotato Platforms Windows · Linux Top-Down ShooterPixel GraphicsAction RoguelikeBullet HellTop-Down
View on Steam ↗ $4.99 (US · as of 2026-05-15)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.

98.5%positive65 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Absolute bargain game that deserves way more attention, by an awesome indie dev. Smol nitpick: Some sounds are way louder/quieter than others.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Someone used Conway’s Game of Life cellular simulation as a premise to make a game? Ok, you got my attention, I know about it, I follow Numberphile channel for decades. Yeah sure I want to play that. However... What you find here just doesn't... oh boy. There is no introduction…”

— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“its actually a good game. well for 2.50. not too much replayability but the sound is nice. i just bought it for the source tbh so im happy.”

— a player, Steam review · 3 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.

16achievements
0.8%median completion
0.3%rarest: Victory III
38.1% of players 29.4% of players 11.6% of players 9.8% of players 4.8% of players 3.3% of players 2.6% of players 1.5% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.4% of players 0.3% of players 38.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
38.1%Time Flies — Experience seasonal change.
29.4%Hole Puncher — Destroy 1,000 machines.
11.6%Silver Enchanter — Enchant a weapon to silver star level.
Rarest badges of honor
0.3%Victory III — Achieve victory on Apocalypse difficulty.
0.4%Victory II — Achieve victory on Invasion difficulty.
0.4%Not a Scratch — Complete the final wave without taking damage.

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Apr 29, 2026
Patch 1.1.4

Just made some quick fixes in preparation for the upcoming Bullet Fest. Changes: "Native" resolution now lists the actual resolution in parentheses. Fixes: Fixed bug in ability drop despawning Fixed c

Dec 06, 2024
Update 1.1

It's been a few weeks since Yawnoc released and there's been a lot of useful feedback to work off of. The result of that is Update 1.1, which focuses primarily of quality of life improvements. There's

Nov 13, 2024
Steam Deck and MacOS Support Status

Yawnoc runs well on Steam Deck. The only known issue is that the controller input in desktop mode doesn't work. As long as the Steam Deck is in game mode, Yawnoc runs fine. ( It's actually how I prefe

Oct 17, 2024
Yawnoc Demo Update v0.2.14

Demo patch v0.2.14 has been released! It's mostly quality of life stuff based on continued feedback, but the HighLife area has also been reworked. Here's the main list of changes: made the guiding arr

Oct 14, 2024
Yawnoc Demo Update

Demo patch v0.2.13 has been released to address many of the points of feedback from the demo players. Here's the main list of changes: improved movement physics for high speed situations made the firs

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Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresAction, Casual, Indie
Player tagsTop-Down Shooter · Pixel Graphics · Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Top-Down · Casual · Rogue-lite · Action · Arcade · Rogue-like · 2D · Colorful (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
ControllerFull support
Achievements16
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3-8100 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Potato Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Requires OpenGL 3.3+