
Desktop Survivors 98 is a chaotic roguelite dungeon crawler that unfolds right on your Desktop. Your cursor becomes the hero as you explore new rooms, battle relentless waves of enemies, and collect powerful new weapons.
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Survive against waves of enemies in quick, intense rounds as you explore the randomly generated dungeons. Your cursor becomes the hero, battling against foes in a bullet hell frenzy that tests your reflexes, precision, and decision-making.
Desktop Survivors 98 doesn’t play in a window — it plays over your desktop. Enemies, upgrades, and chaos unfold across your real screen.
Whether you’re looking for a quick break or an extended challenge, Desktop Survivors 98 fits perfectly into your routine. With its fast-paced rounds and the ability to toggle the game at any moment, you’re always just a click away from diving back into the action.
Play Directly on Your Desktop: The action unfolds right on your desktop, overlaying seamlessly over anything you’re doing—perfect for multitasking!
Cursor Combat: Your cursor becomes the hero, engaging in progressively fast-paced battles against waves of enemies.
Dangerous Enemy Waves: Survive relentless hordes in a bullet hell experience that challenges your skills and reaction time.
Variety of Weapons and Upgrades: Discover, acquire, and upgrade powerful items as you progress.
Nostalgic Aesthetic: Immerse yourself in retro-inspired visuals that capture the charm of classic PC gaming.
Take a Break Anytime: Toggle the game on or off at any moment to pause, step away, and return whenever you’re ready.
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Guys... I didn't survive :(
dev is in a hiatus, no updates planned for the time being
Fun and challenging :) Runs good on Linux!
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 62 reviews with recorded playtime.
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The enemy types are not really balanced around having the monitor be the whole play field. It's clunky, with enemies coming from the corner of the monitor, dashing straight at you, leaving you no window to react and forcing you to either take defensive items simply because some specific enemy has a chance to appear in the room and ruin the whole run, or to skip several level-ups simply to heal, which just doesn't feel good.
Super fun game. Reminds me of the obvious; windows 98 and xp and all of the culture surrounding it. lots of laughs and tons of replayability.
Very fun game I really enjoyed it <3 Super silly and nostalgic! I have every achievement as of reviewing and it feels good :3
Very fun an unique rougelite. Love the art style and many of the mechanics and weapons are very unique and fresh. The leveling system is pretty rewarding and fairly good replayability. The only issue is that once you have done most of everything and gotten all the achievements there isn't much of an incentive to replay [spoiler]*aside from golden cursors, but its not very enticing*[/spoiler]
I have 200% completed this game. I've gotten not just every achievement, but also every single thing that doesn't have an achievement as well. I have had a fantastic time. From the start, struggling to survive and finding new items around every corner I manage to cross, to the end, where I almost crashed the game because there's no projectile limit, and the enemies couldn't absorb all of them! 10/10. Simple, fun, and cheap! Of course, there are a FEW issues, but every game does. Plus, its fun to completely annihilate the balance! Everything from the UI to the very few lines of dialogue are quite charming as well! I love the theming! I also think that its very cool that I can play this while doing something under it! It all comes together to make a wonderful little package of entertainment! Would recommend!
i cant decide if its amazing or unbalanced garbage, the fast flying enemies feel pretty impossible especially early game. half the weapons Ive gotten so far are basically worthless so i die early on half the runs and every boss is impossible unless i manage to get a corruption (which also feels basically impossible) OK after 100%ing it over a weekend this game is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AWESOME. Once i actually figured out the enemies and weapons it became so much easier , so much ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun finding all the corruptions even if some of them were a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pain in the ass lol All the roguelite mechanics are amazing, the burial bay and all that .even though i 100ed it I hope i return and keep completing the level 50's and maxxing out all my upgrades
Equal parts nostalgia and fun. Made my inner Win95/98 self very happy.
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