Desktop Survivors 98

Guys... I didn't survive :(

dev is in a hiatus, no updates planned for the time being

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.

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]

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.

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.

This is a Hidden Gem

One of the few games I actually liked going for 100%

Fun game with some really pretty and nostalgic aethetics. Unfortunately, it does have a couple of flaws that kept nagging me -The gameplay is very repetitive. Go from room to room, survive the endless swarms of mobs for a minute or so, repeat until you clear the 3rd floor and enter an endless mode for grinding gold -This same repetitive gameplay against swarms favors weapons with AoE to the point where single-target weapons quickly fall off. Since they can kill only one enemy at a time, they rack up less kills overall. Since they rack up less kills overall, they get less EXP. Since they get less EXP, you level up less and they get weaker comparatively, until the negative feedback loop just gets you killed or you manage to find a strong AoE weapon to save you -This poor weapon balance is expressed in other areas. Weapons like the Fishing Pole, the Cursor Arrow or the Bubble Blower focus too much on single target, whereas weapons like .WAV, Paintbrush or Chess are just too good. Then, there are some weapons who are too gimmicky and unreliable to be any worth using, like Binary Bomb, cat.jpeg or the god-forsaken Lasso which is just way too annoying to use. -To add to the poor balance, some passive upgrades are flat out downgrades, like Game Over or Scheduler who increase enemy spawn rate or increase how long it takes you to clear a room. The intention of these "upgrades" is to boost how many drops you're able to milk out of a single room, but you'd rather choose something to help with DPS to kill more enemies faster and get more drops that way instead. -There's very little difference between areas beyond enemy layout. Progressing further into a dungeon also only boosts enemy health, damage and spawning speed, adding to the repetitive gameplay. It's because of all of this that the game feels more like an upgrade-type game rather than an actual roguelike one. Do a run, fail pathetically, but use the coins and unlocks you've earned to buy more upgrades to get further into the next run and so on. In this aspect, the game succeeds quite well with a huge variety of upgrades to choose from in the main menu and many bonus tasks to distract yourself with. Very worth its price if you go into the game with this mentality.