
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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Great game. Very nostalgic of old windows.... Clippy. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent (For what it is. Great if considering that the graphics are meant to look like old Win) ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☑ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10 ---{ Author }--- ☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template
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Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 63 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Fun addicting little game with surprisingly more to do than you initially expect, and you sit back and just play with your mouse. And I really like the music! The only thing I wish it had was a high score system or something so when you exhaust all the achievements your next goal would be to make even more optimized runs, but you could make mental note of your kill count I guess. Personally, now I go on meme runs and see how far I can get before I crash the game with the sheer amount of nonsense I allow on the screen. Just a little before-bed activity.
игра просто супер, своей цены стоит, но я бы добавил больше музыкальных произведений, включительно в ярлыке с музыкой одних из боссов. играть в эту игру интересно поначалу, особенно выбивать достижения, но когда проходишь те же самые уровни уже прокаченным, уже не сильно интересно играть, было бы здорово иметь какой-нибудь "хардкор" мод. а так игра затягивает, не оторвешься, если уж начал играть.
Interesting concept, but gets boring quickly. Giving thumbs up only becuase its developer's first game.
Bardzo, ale to bardzo polecam ten tytuł. To nie jest rogal z nudnymi opcjami levelowania, masa szalonych kombinacji, szybki i przyjemny gameplay i trochę nostalgii. W tej cenie to jak za darmo, a jak wiadomo darmo to uczciwa cena.
very fun and unique although i wish getting the modifers were easier or less luck based
Quizá no sea el mejor del género pero es original e igual de divertido. Típico juego al que volver recurrentemente
a fun classic game
Vampire Survivors walked so Desktop Survivors could... stroll? First off, I love this game, in fact I prefer it to VS. $5 is a steal. Now the grousing: The top reviews here do it justice, in that it's fun but brief, not a lot of variance in play after a while, and can feel boring when you've maxxed out the shops and powers and each run ends with an impenetrable wall of lights and sound until you're ended by enemy stat creep. I do enjoy making a build that allows me to sit while enemies die by the dozens just off-screen, while I nod and say "I am good at videogame." Comparison to Vampire Survivors is inevitable, so I'll double-down and discuss specific differences -The Weapon transformations (here they're called Corruptions, in Vampire Survivors they're Evolutions or something) are more easily unlockable; instead of needing a treasure chest, you just need the two items that create it, then level them to max and it triggers. The recipes are viewable in a window during play, and once you've seen an item, it populates the library so there's no guesswork. -Moving with mouse vs. controller is awesome, you feel like you have more control and chances to pull off tight dodges and enemy-wrangling maneuvers. Also, battling in 1-minute rooms with no escape is nice pacing for a game designed to feel like a pop-up Desktop thing. -The enemies have some variation; there's the standard fast-but weak vs slow-but-beefy, different ranged attacks, some have peculiar movement patterns that add variation. It does result in some balance-breaking moments, as the final floor is an endless run, but instead of a Grim Reaper at clock end, the difficulty just creeps up until you can't manage a certain scenario. -Most of the weapons are thematically perfect for Windows98. Some are misses (I don't get the fish-related ones), and some weapons are badly balanced; the lasso is cute but nearly non-functional, and the .WAV and Firewall AoE weapons are OP. -Only 6 biomes, and they're not very different. Overall I really enjoy it, if you're looking for depth of story or gameplay it isn't here but if you want arcade-style play with progression and a fun Windows97 aesthetic, this hits the spot again and again.
Só eu pensei que o jogo era de terror? kk
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