Survivors of the Dawn
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 594 reviews of which 464 were positive and 130 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. š
The game is currently priced at 3.89ā¬ on Steam and has a 50% discount.
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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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really fun. good game to turn your brain off and play. press buttons numbers go up brain make happy chemical
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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 itās too difficult and thatās a gameās fault for not being explicit in whatās going on: my guess is that those people didnāt figure out the auto-aim button and couldnāt 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 thereās 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 donāt need any other weapons, which makes them worse than useless - they drop your framerate and you canāt 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 doesnāt count right [*] You can only pop drop crystals with your main weapon, thatās 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 doesnāt. 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 canāt 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 donāt want to stay in one place. ION beacons are really powerful but you wonāt 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 canāt 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 donāt 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 wasnāt 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. š Main Pros, Cons, and Suggestions: š© Pros: + Short 2 ā 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 š„ Cons: - Presently, itās 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? š·ļø 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 āsurvivors likeā 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 donāt bring much new to the genre, and ultimately, thereās nothing revolutionary about the game. In making such a strong statement, I will add that this isnāt a bad thing, as if you like the survivors like loop, youāll have fun here. For a genre which I dare say is oversaturated, SotD stands well above many others. In particular, the āchoose your own adventureā 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 isnāt 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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Online players
4
Developer
indieGiant
Publisher
indieGiant
Release
06 Nov 2023
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