Shadowgrounds Survivor
Frozenbyte · 2007 · Action, Sci-fi, Shooter, Top-Down Shooter, Isometric
PC
Mixed62% · 57779Metacritic
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About Shadowgrounds Survivor
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Battle waves of aliens on Ganymede as one of three survivors, upgrading your weapons and unlocking special abilities like devastating napalm strikes in a campaign that spans frozen wastelands and abandoned colonies. The game combines top-down shooting action with tactical RPG progression, physics-driven destruction, and a survival mode for endless alien-slaying mayhem, all built with tools that let the community create and share custom content.
Surviving is only half the game.
The award-winning atmosphere and gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return in this spin off/sequel armed with a slick new feature set!
Shadowgrounds Survivor tells the story of the last remaining humans on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, where the alien onslaught is in full force.
The award-winning atmosphere and gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return in this spin off/sequel armed with a slick new feature set!
Shadowgrounds Survivor tells the story of the last remaining humans on Jupiter's moon Ganymede, where the alien onslaught is in full force.
- 3 playable characters with impressive new tactics
- RPG-like upgrade system for weapons and characters - including special attacks such as the all-engrossing Napalm Flame and the mighty Brute Slayer.
- Campaign mode deepens the Shadowgrounds story and expands it to new locations, including snow and ice environments, an abandoned cargo tunnel and the suffering New Atlantis colony.
- Survival mode focuses on all-out alien slaughtering action – choose a character to suit your playing style and blast the aliens back to outer space!
- New gameplay features such as the Sentry Turret and the powerful Mech!
- New graphics enhancements including raging snowstorm effects, new weapon effects and much more.
- AGEIA PhysX brings the world alive with hundreds of physics objects that take the destruction to the next level.
- Editor tools allow players to take part in the active Shadowgrounds mod community - or just enjoy the results!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
more of an expansion pack than its own thing, even though these days it costs more than the original (10 eur vs. 5). much to my surprise, I enjoyed this more than the first one, even though I'm not one for tower defense-like gameplay. on half the levels here you're stuck in a room, ward off waves of enemies, but shorter stages make the save system more tolerable (the first game has big-ass maps with no checkpoints) and the story switches between multiple characters with their own point of view and weapons. I liked the flamethrower guy the most.5 found this helpful
Even so, the shooting part feels better; the rest of the game feels worse for me, especially after playing Shadowgrounds just before this game. The constant we put you in a tiny room and swarm you with enemies just makes no fun. What annoyed me too was what was rare in the predecessor: we spawn enemies behind you in rooms you just cleared. The story was okay in addition to Shadowgrounds, but it feels worse for me in all aspects except the shooting part because you now have more ammunition for your weapons. Short, if it was part of Shadowgrounds, it would be an okay bonus, but as a separate game with a bigger price tag, it just feels worse. I would say just buy Shadowgrounds and forget this exists.2 found this helpful
The game feels clunky and outdated, with repetitive missions and lackluster graphics, making it boring after a short while.2 found this helpful
While I enjoyed my 5 hours playing it, I find it hard to recommend this game to anyone. If you played Shadowgrounds, and didnt like it, you likely wont like this one as well. It is sliiightly better gameplay vise, because I think some AI got improved slightly, enemy placement were harder to fight off, but that could be because I played on hard difficulty this time instead of normal. If you DID like Shadowgrounds, you might be disappointed by how short it is(yes, 5 hours is the whole singleplayer story, theres a few survival maps but I didnt bother with them, since thats not why I liked original shadowgrounds) And while there was slight improvements in gameplay, there are some downsides too. Like how now you cant use all your weapons from the original game, because some guns didnt make transition into this game(like lightning gun, laser, grenade launcher), and remaining guns that did make the cut(pistol, pulse rifle, flamethrower, shotgun, minigun, rocket launcher, energy sniper rifle) all are divided between 3 playable characters. Two of these characters use pistol, so just like in original game, you'll get bored of using pistol a ton. But this time you WILL be forced to use …1 found this helpful
Short, but fun top-down shooter. It is a standalone DLC for Shadowgrounds, so you should play that first. I don't see why this is just mixed, and Shadowgrounds is very positive. I think both are equally good and cheap1 found this helpful
Very good Top Down Shooter , Good Graphics and the feature of switching characters was a good idea.
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