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A roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven with QUINTILLIONS of bullets over QUINTILLIONS of hordes. Mix weapons with items, modify, control chaos at terminals and break through tightening waves.
Survivors of the Dawn is a early access, action roguelike and bullet hell game
developed and published by indieGiant.
Released on November 06th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish and Spanish - Spain.
It has received 667 reviews of which 514 were positive and 153 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.3 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 7.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: Intel Core i3 or AMD Ryzen 3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290
- Storage: 5 GB available space
MacOS
- Requires an Apple processor
- Processor: M1
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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Not a tremendous level of variety, but the gun play is really good. As usual for this type of game, w/out the meta improvements you will become overwhelmed quite quickly. But when you upgrade correctly you can become truly overpowered, or at least powerful enough to handle the massive hordes. Some other interesting ways of improving your character as well.
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It's a game with a good foundation, but it's way too easy. Once you complete the first level on easy you never die again. Every weapon in the game gets ridiculously overpowered and if you pick some of the really broken ones you barely see any enemies because they die off screen. There's definitely something here, and it's EA after all, so I'll see where it ends up, expect <6 hours for completion on brutal as a casual player in its current state.
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[h1 ]Very short game: You basically need about 20 runs to complete all stages, open all weapons and get 90% of achievements while getting only about 40% of upgrades. One run is 20-30 min. The difficulty curve is kinda bad. It is only somewhat challenging the first 2-5 minutes, and after that it becomes boring since you effortlessly kill everything in your sight. There are people in reviews who say it’s too difficult and that’s a game’s fault for not being explicit in what’s going on: my guess is that those people didn’t figure out the auto-aim button and couldn’t figure out which upgrades are better or worse overall and in particular situations. So there needs to be more transparency and explicit tutorial for those players. Problems/Suggestions: [*] Magnet pills should also pull gold and drop capsules. [*] Drop capsules should be more visible. Sometimes they are hidden behind obstacles and basically invisible. If you have ion beacons the drop capsules are impossible to notice on the ground. Make them twice bigger and brighter and make obstacles transparent if there’s a capsule behind it. Make capsules be on a top layer. [*] Once you get your main weapon to 0.0s reload time the game becomes super easy and at this point you don’t need any other weapons, which makes them worse than useless - they drop your framerate and you can’t see drop capsules because everything is blowing up and sparkling. I usually manage to get 0s reload time in the first 5 minutes of the run. [*] The game needs another difficulty with more monsters spawning and them getting much thicker and faster as you progress through the run. Or a more challenging mode with limitations. Or an option to tweak amount of monsters and their HP before the run [*] Indicators on the screen borders should also show distance to the object. [*] Vigor injection achievement is bugged out and doesn’t count right [*] You can only pop drop crystals with your main weapon, that’s kinda annoying since you have to switch from auto-aim and shoot it manually [*] Sometimes the level ends right after you kill the boss and sometimes it doesn’t. I don't want to end the level right after the boss dies, if you gave me 4 minutes for a level then i want to use the whole 4 minutes. Tips for those who struggling: [*] Pre-run upgrade priority is: pickup range, experience and gold gaining boost. Then damage and fire rate. Rerolls and swiftness are also useful. The rest is better to upgrade when you low on credits and can’t buy any upgrade from above [*] In the run focus on popping gold crystals in a few first minutes - that will get you gold. Then spend it in the armory. Your focus should be on getting your reload time to 0s or even in negative numbers. then focus on bullet count, damage and pierce and fire rate. Magazine capacity is obsolete when your reload is 0. Range and bullet speed don't matter in most cases. [*] From level ups get damage and experience boost first. Then pick your secondary weapons. [*] Grenade launcher and missile launcher are top tear in my book. Flame thrower and mines are kinda cool but they are stationary and you don’t want to stay in one place. ION beacons are really powerful but you won’t see anything on the ground once you level them up. Laser beams are cool, but they are useless when no monsters can reach you. Any mechas are quite useless. While kamikaze spiders and harper drones are a good choice. The other weapons are either too useless or too cooldown reliant and since you can’t get everything from the get go, you have to choose. [*] After the first 5 minutes of the run choose unknown and shop levels on the map. You need armory and those yellow event thingies. [*] I usually don’t bother with salvages (green circles events) after beginning, it requires too much time for just 1 capsule and miniscule amount of gold. [*] Items and events - pick those that increase capsule drop chances, damage multiplier from 5000gold and damage boosts like 25% for enemies with 90% HP. Prioritizing those will make you a god by the middle of the run: with 100k gold, tons of items from capsules and you will be one-shotting everything. [*] Use dash. I always keep my spacebar pressed. That's all folks, i hope my bad english wasn’t too difficult to read.
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A Bullet Hell with a banging soundtrack - The music perfectly fits the nature, setting, and tone of the game. 📝 Main Pros, Cons, and Suggestions: 🟩 Pros: + Short 2 – 3 minute stage based design + Toggle between auto and manual aim on the fly + Slay the Spire type map with a handful of stage types + Soundtrack is an aggressive mix of Rock and Synthwave + Communicative developers with a consistent history of updates + Ability synergies (evolutions) and build types (near, far, minions etc) make for an engaging experience 🟥 Cons: - Presently, it’s lacking in content and feels difficulty gated - Character choice is irrelevant outside the opening minutes - Certain choices are illogical e.g. Gain a benefit but increase elite enemy health by 10%, or gain no benefit and increases elite enemy health by 15% - Why ever pick the second option? 🏷️ Suggestions: ~ More specific event icons ~ Option to toggle skill cooldown visibility ~ Increase default character movement speed ever so slightly A Competent and Visually Impressive Experience Survivors of the Dawn (SotD) is one of the most graphically advanced ‘survivors like’ I have played, successfully delivering brilliant visuals without being overwhelming. Additionally, the music perfectly fits the nature, setting, and tone of the game. Unfortunately, most of the other mechanics at play don’t bring much new to the genre, and ultimately, there’s nothing revolutionary about the game. In making such a strong statement, I will add that this isn’t a bad thing, as if you like the survivors like loop, you’ll have fun here. For a genre which I dare say is oversaturated, SotD stands well above many others. In particular, the ‘choose your own adventure’ style map featuring event filled stages are brilliant design choices rarely found in other survivor likes. Give Me More Events come in many forms, such as defeating a certain number of enemies, or defending a specific point for a set timeframe. Rewards vary between experience, enhancements, to powerful boosts. Additionally, you can find shops, allowing you to enhance your skills and weapons for a fee. Presently SotD is low on content, and outside of achievement hunting, everything can be completed in ten to fifteen hours. Before that however, I felt I had seen everything the game had to offer within the first few hours of play. I would love to see equipment expanded further, delivering more weapons and synergies, along with greater character diversity. While I do recommend the game for fans of the genre, as it really is a cut above many others I have played. Please remember, it is an Early Access title, the content isn’t as vast or as engaging as other survivor likes I have been fortunate enough to play. The foundations are impressive however, and I expect big things as SotD continues to be expanded. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44931904-Bite-Sized-Reviews//]If you enjoyed my review and would like to support me, I would love if you followed BSR for more bite sized reviews. [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]Follow our curator page: IndieGems if you like and want to see more reviews like this one.
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+ Looks great + Runs great + No bugs besides the ones for killing - Not that many playable characters or levels It's EA, and for the price of a coffee in this economy, I'm loving it. Hope they keep it up with updates.
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Survivors of the Dawn is currently priced at 7.79€ on Steam.
Survivors of the Dawn is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 7.79€ on Steam.
Survivors of the Dawn received 514 positive votes out of a total of 667 achieving a rating of 7.32.
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Survivors of the Dawn was developed and published by indieGiant.
Survivors of the Dawn is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Survivors of the Dawn is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
Survivors of the Dawn is not playable on Linux.
Survivors of the Dawn is a single-player game.
Survivors of the Dawn does not currently offer any DLC.
Survivors of the Dawn does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
Survivors of the Dawn does not support Steam Remote Play.
Survivors of the Dawn is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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10
Developer
indieGiant
Publisher
indieGiant
Release
06 Nov 2023
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