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Survivor.io (iPd) Status: Playing I started playing this game on Tuesday 4 April, 2023
Current opinion of this game
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June 14, 2023 11:31:21 PM
I played this for a few weeks and was only interested because I had heard about it at GDC. The game is, in a nutshell, a F2P version of vampire survivors with the shiny turned up to 11 BUT also a grindiness that is a bit tiresome? I eventually got bored, but I realized that maybe the first 5 minutes of the game, or so, was tapping on stuff to collect rewards and things that had accumulated since I last played. And all that started to get a bit tiring. It's my understanding that the game is super successful in terms of making money and so on, and I can see why - it's a huge progression chain of items and stats and things you can increase, there's events, and different types of events and so on. What I enjoyed the most, to be fair, is that the play sessions are shorter than Vampire Survivors - you basically play against a timer, so if you're doing great, and beat the level it'll never take longer than 5 minutes or 10 minutes or whatever the length is. That being said, that's where some of the grind comes in, you need to get gear, improve gear, etc. that separate from the in-level weapon upgrades and pickups to boost your chances of success. Fun? Yes. Not sure if I'll go back to it though...