Elemental Survivors

Excellent survivor like.... a lot of variety with the characters, weapons, stages and enemies and if you don't mind having to do certain combinations of things to do in each run to unlock more stuff (the good thing is the achievements and the in game secrets menus pretty much tells you what is required) you can unlock a lot of stuff not to mention gather gold to keep upgrading your abilities and options you have with each run. Seems like the mixed review is because the game never left early access but the core gameplay is fun and there's so much content here already that for the price I got to say it feels like you're getting the better part of the bargain if you like these type of action roguelike rpgs. Haven't had any issues with the game crashing or the like either.

Scam game that has been dropped by the dev team. Please save your money and remember the team that made this game so you can dodge any other abandon-ware they release.

I put over a dozen hours into Elemental Survivors a long time ago, but felt overwhelmed with how much there was still left to unlock so I put it to the side. Recently, I came back to it and found myself completely engaged until I unlocked everything. Speaking as a fan of the survivors-like/bullet heaven genre, Elemental Survivors doesn't really do anything particularly new or unique with the formula, but I found it to be more than competent with charming pixel art and a few nice features. Every playable character (and there are a LOT of them) has a dominant stat (like "Strength", "Dexterity" or "Magic"), an elemental alignment (like "Fire" or "Ice", but also "Nature" and "Witch Craft"), and a unique starting weapon. During runs you can add other characters to your party, where they both attack alongside you and boost your character's stats in unique ways (one increases your walking speed, one makes enemies drop more money, one widens your pickup radius, etc). You also can add more weapons to your arsenal, and get accessories from shops to offer similar boosts. Every time you level up (by picking up exp dropped by enemies), you can raise the level of a player character, weapon or…

This one's a nice little bullet heaven. It doesn't do too much different from other games coming out at the time, but what it does, it does reasonably well. On the downside, the text size isn't fantastic and can't be changed (edit: this can be changed by resizing your window). Also, as someone else mentioned in their review, the mouse visibility isn't great. I found out just now you can make it bigger, but you can't change the colour, which would help a bit more. Overall, I'd recommend this one. While it won't last you as long as other games in the genera and it is very sad the game got abandoned (there was definitely more they could have done with it), it's functionally complete as is. I think it's worth the money, for sure when it's on sale.

Nice game, good sense of progression, slow trickle of unlocks and RNG mitigation as you go. Later levels require strategy. Some areas are perpetually "coming soon", but there's still ~20 hours of gameplay here, which is enough for a full game in my book.

games abandoned, its really fun and was on a good projectory, but its been 2 years at the time of review so