I know mushrooms probably are not in your backlog, but the fungus-themed loot shooter Mycopunk has released version 1.0 and looks like the opposite of a shiitake time.

Mycopunk Reaches 1.0 on PC and PlayStation 5 With New Class, Missions and Weapons.

Background: A Mushroom-Driven Looter Loop

Mycopunk is an online co-op looter shooter about embodying robot rejects and fending off hordes of champignon. The core loop is straightforward: land on a planet overrun with mushrooms, take as many of them out as possible while completing missions, earn mods, upgrade the setup, and head back out again. The game's action presentation calls Borderlands and Risk of Rain to mind, described as crunchy and punchy. The 1.0 release is the point at which the game arrived into 1.0, bringing a broad set of added content to the loop.

Development Process: New Class, Mission and Region Before Launch

The developers had been working on the Mycologist for quite a while. In a Steam blog post, they said they thought players would have fun with the class's set of upgrades and abilities: Sporelift and Fungal Skewer, plus a passive infection ability. The 1.0 update also introduced a new mission, population control, focused on clearing areas of high enemy density and possibly tussling with a couple of Abominations. A mini special assignment was added, and it is literally about rescuing a sofa.

On weapons, the update added the diffraction driver, an ion scattergun that fires in a short-range cone. Players can spin up its halo to make the cone smaller and longer. The snowball grenade was also added, and it is essentially what the name suggests. That grenade can be found in X11-B, a new region on New Atlas' moonlet. X11-B's difficult missions are meant to test a player's best loadouts. The update also added hats, with the developers noting they are just hats.

Latest Progress: Launch Trailer and Additional Systems

The release was promoted with a launch trailer titled "Squad Up and Fight Back | Mycopunk 1.0 Launch Trailer | Out Now on PC and PlayStation 5," which could be watched on YouTube. The trailer linked the 1.0 moment to the game's availability on PC and PlayStation 5. Alongside the new class, mission, weapons and region, the Steam blog post listed sit emotes, fulfillments as an in-game achievement system, a rework of the HUB, a redesign for the drop pod, and a broader set of tweaks, fixes and improvements. The full list can be read on Steam, where the game is also available to pick up.

Current Stage: 1.0 and the Half-Off Window

Mycopunk is now in the post-1.0 stage, with the game half off for the time being. For players, that means the existing robot-reject looter loop now has more content around it: a new employee class, a new mission type, a new moonlet region, new weapons, hats, and quality-of-life systems such as fulfillments and sit emotes. The launch does not move the game away from its premise of battling mushroom enemies; it expands the tools, targets and places where players can do it.