
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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Languages: English
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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.
Fun roguelike that uses old windows looks as a graphics style. Kept me coming back for more even after it thoroughly annoyed me. There's a lot to unlock than originally seems.
Doesn't work with the Steam controller. Could not start a run, the doors would just not be clickable.
vampire survivors but good
Чилловый вариант vampire survivors, под пивко на пару вечерков зайдёт. Её в целом можно очень быстро пройти, собирая имбо-комбо. Было бы круто увидеть следующую часть
바탕화면을 보면서, 유튜브를 보면서 하니 옛날 재미있게 했었던 바탕화면 부스기가 생각나기도 하는 그런 게임이네요 초반에 생존이랑 돈을 버는게 조금 힘들긴 하지만 그래도 특성같이 능력치를 조금씩 올리니 할만합니다 처음에 좀 힘들다 하시는 분들은 클래식 마우스로 하시는걸 추천합니다 3~4렙만 찍으면 힘들진 않게 하실 수 있을겁니다
Неплохой, стильный вампарик с необычным управлением и синергиями. Аддиктивный, но достаточно быстро ломается из-за мета супремаси. Так же много просто опциональных механик и лейт гейм механик, которые абсолютно не раскрываются, т.к. игра уже и так пройдена и ломает сама себя
Cool
Very fun game to play. I enjoyed the art style and the many builds you can make.
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