Frontline Survivors

Very good survivor game with original and fun game mechanics. Sad this game isn't better known, as it clearly deserves more visibility.

nice !

Very good Survivor game, much pew pew

It might not look like much, but it’s quite fun for a few runs. The gameplay fits in the popular horde-survival games. You need to move around the playing area and shoot at enemies. If you don’t want to bother with shooting, you can turn on aim assist and autofire to make things a bit easier to play. Collecting experience points from defeated soldiers or destroyed infrastructure fills up a bar, allowing you to choose one of three perks. With each level, stronger enemies appear on the map. The goal is to demolish or capture eight bases and then protect your own, which is darn hard on your first play. That is why you'll need to go for a few runs to have a shot. Following each defeat, you receive a set amount of cash based on your performance. This currency is then used to purchase additional characters, weapons, and perks. You can only take two perks on a mission, Each character is equipped with a unique weapon and two special abilities. Their usefulness is limitless, but they require a few seconds to recharge. Weapons are intriguing since you can upgrade to more powerful versions that deal more damage, fire faster, and have larger clip sizes. This makes a lot of difference because I was able to beat the game with the first character and his best weapon. You soon realize that the game isn’t even that hard. I could even go on for hours if I wanted it. Unfortunately, the final reward is limited so playing for more than required won't give you anything extra.

It's the modern day version of Commando on NES. For all you youngins NES stands for Nintendo Entertainment System. It was the first "console" released by Nintendo back in the 80s. It's a great survivors or VS type game. Even though I think this genre is far to overdone this one definitely deserves a seat at the table. It has 5 different characters to unlock or use and they all have very different play-styles. Each character gets three different starting weapons which adds another level of variation to each run. It has meta progression, nostalgic graphics, a good price, decent game-play loop and tons of room for updates/additions. Bonus points for releasing yesterday and I haven't had a single bug or crash. That's what should be expected but in this day in age where everyone is a game dev triple A games can't even figure that one out. Thank you very much for making this game and I can't wait to see what's next.

Great game, definitely did not expect this amount of variety in weapons and environments in it!

Fun and replayable The diversity of weapon and characters added with the upgrades allow you to branch on quite a lot of possible builds. Classical but efficient AD

I was a bit skeptical about this game with the visual style that somewhat reminds me of RPG maker. I was wrong. This is a very unique twin stick shooter, with skills chained similar to that of 20 minutes till dawn. There are several features that make this game unique. 1. An objective. Instead of surviving set amount of time, the game has a clear objective, which is to capture 8 enemy bases. There are multiple types of enemy bases, such as radio tower that you need to stay in a circle and bunker base where you need to destroy enemy turrets/pillboxes. I believe there are more types, but I haven’t gone that far. 2. Friendly NPCs The default character has a skill to call in reinforcements. They are not invincible, and there is a skill path that is focused on enchanting friendly NPCs. I haven’t fully explored the NPC skill tree, but there seems to be multiple NPC types available. The AI is quite serviceable. They follow you around, they don’t get stuck, and their aiming and damage is quite reliable, but not game breaking even in mass, 2. Random encounters Aside from enemy bases, there are some optional bases that can be captured that gives you additional xp. Also, there are some variety of mini bosses with unique attacks. 3. Unlockables There are 5 champions (generals) . I only unlocked the second one, and her skills as well as weaponry requires quite a different play style from the default character. Each general has 3 weapons with 2 as unlockable, and it seems like weapons are designed to provide more variety than being straight up power up. I strongly recommend this game.