Ships

The Rock

Play as a huge behemoth, that can charge and destroy loads of enemies. When your charge is on cooldown, you'll have to play more carefully as The Rock is slower and bigger than other ships, but you'll have extra health to compensate.

The Vortex

The blink ship. It's less tanky than most, but boasts fast shield regeneration. Whenever you're in a tough place, as long as you have your shield, you can blink forward, far away from the enemies. You'll also no longer be constrained by the alien prisons, as a single blink can put you outside of them. As long as you don't get swarmed with your shields down, this ship will offer you the best defensive capabilities in the galaxy.

The Carrier

The killer ship for people who love scaling or don't particularly care for aiming. It starts out regular enough, but as you level up, you'll gain more interceptors - gain enough and your fire power will be unstoppable.

The Ultra Cruiser

If the Golden Eagle wasn't enough mayhem for you, you should try out this ship. You start with twice the fire rate, but whenever your shields are down you slowly bleed out your health (this can't kill you). The way you get one over the aliens is by the ship's special power-up system. Whenever you pick up a power-up, it will never run out, unless you pick up a power-up of a different type (the power-ups are at half strength). Choose between taking half the damage, slower enemies or even faster fire rate.

Weapons

Discharge

Explosive charges go off periodically around you. Has a very long cooldown, but unlike Lotus or Impulse, it will hit EVERYTHING in your proximity.

Javelin

A pair of extremely slow, but extremely powerful missiles. They home, but not as well as the standard Missiles. If you need a boss-killer, this weapon is it.

Glaive

The bigger brother of the Laser. Unlike the Laser, it persists for a very short moment and stays attached to your ship. The Glaive deals massive damage, pierces through everything and if you flick your guns fast enough, it'll tear through A LOT of enemies.

Singularity

This is the weakest weapon in the game... at level 1. The more you upgrade the Singularity, the longer it'll last, eventually growing into a massive black-hole that'll rip through enemies on half the screen.

Phantom Daggers

Pretty much the opposite of the Singularity. This is THE early-game weapon. They don't get much stronger with levels, but they'll tear through the early invasion.

Blaster

Essentially the slower, but heftier sibling of the Spike. Shoots a bunch of bullets that'll deal some decent damage and will pierce through a few enemies.

Modifiers

The Bargain

You stop leveling up, but your fire rate and damage are both increased by 50%. Good luck dropping this on the last boss!

Blast Off

+1 Max HP, plus every time your armor gets damaged, your ship explodes, heavily damaging of the aliens close to you.

Thunderstruck

Whenever your shield gets damaged, your currently equipped weapons explodes around you instantly. Hope you specced into some slow, but heavy weapons.

Castle Doctrine

Whenever you lose HP, you'll gain +5% damage.

Rigged

Your damage and range is halved, but all planets drop 5 rewards. If you can survive it, take it at the start, save easy planets and enjoy the power.

Misc

- Finally, proper final boss fight - Lots of bug fixes and small improvements In the next update we'll focus on bringing full controller support and more!

[ 2022-09-13 17:27:54 CET ] [ Original post ]

This update is pretty modest, as I didn't have a lot of time to work this past week.

The Prism

Every 7th level you get, an alien Prism spawns in your proximity. You can ignore it and go with saving the galaxy as usual, or you can break it to unleash random modifiers that'll spice up the game. Fortune favors the brave - for every prism you break you'll get a good chunk of data, with a small chance of hitting it big instead of getting any random modifiers. The Prism can do some pretty spicy stuff such as:

• Make enemies take only half damage from one of your weapons
• Shuffle your ship's class
• Turn one of your weapons into a shotgun
• Make wrenches half as common
• Take you down to a sliver of health, but reward you with loads of XP

The Laser

A new weapon that sends an array of beams that'll pierce through any enemies. It has excellent range and crowd control potential, but without base damage modifiers it won't pack a punch.

Misc

You can now skip Boss Modifiers. A lot of people asked for this, so here ya go. Bug fixin' as always

Next Update

Share your feedback and thoughts. We're looking to add a good amount of content in the next update, so we'll need a lot of ideas for Ships, Weapons and Modifiers. Wish ya'll fun!

[ 2022-09-05 18:43:08 CET ] [ Original post ]

Weapons

Pulse Blade - A blade that stays with the player's ship and deals lotsa damage up close Railway - High-damage piercing weapon that flies towards the player's ship Deadly Plume - Fast-firing weapon that deals with enemies behind you

The Marauder

This ship's best for people that like to hit slow, but heavy. Its projectiles deal double damage, are twice as big and all start with piercing, at the cost of fire rate. Start with a huge Pulse Blade and take enemies head-on!

Flow

This modifier enables a new play-style. It slows the velocity of all your weapons by A LOT, but also heavily increases their base damage and how long they stay on screen. Leave a path of destruction behind you and bait enemies into their doom!

Misc

[olist]

Controller should fully work in the gameplay portion of the game. Full controller support in all the menus is coming soon!

Visibility even further improved in the toggled "Better Visibility" mode

Upgrades and Weapons now display their current level

Lots of bug fixes all around [/olist] Let us know what you'd like to see next - more content in general, or maybe some mechanics to spice up the gameplay. Report any bugs you find on Steam forums, Discord or in Reviews, we'll try to fix them as soon as possible!

[ 2022-08-22 12:48:25 CET ] [ Original post ]

During a playthrough you can enable options to lower clutter and enable custom color-coding to improve visual clarity

[ 2022-08-18 08:37:50 CET ] [ Original post ]

During a playthrough you can enable options to lower clutter and enable custom color-coding to improve visual clarity

[ 2022-08-18 08:37:35 CET ] [ Original post ]

We're about to release Galaxy Survivors on Steam. It's our first game and we learned a lot along the way. There were a lot more bugs than we anticipated and a lot of things that needed changing, but I think as it stands we have a really fun game that'll last you a good while. Of course, we're not done yet with the game - we have a good amount of content planned before we're ready to leave Early Access. We'll depend a lot on your feedback in the coming weeks, to make sure the game is as fun as can be. Leave reviews (even if they're negative!), post on the Steam forums and let us know about your feedback on Discord. We want to hear about all your ideas and complaints - we'll of course have to pick and choose what we focus on, but the more ideas we have to choose from, the better. The game will release 3 hours and 30 minutes from the posting of this, hope ya'll have fun!

[ 2022-08-17 12:33:17 CET ] [ Original post ]

With the changes we've made to movement and shooting the balance of the game will have to be adjusted, but it seems like twin-stick style shooting will be the most fun for the game. Talents have been finally fixed up and re-added - these can be unlocked by maxing out a given pair of System Upgrades. They're all very powerful, but that power will be necessary to beat the later Multiverses. Other than that, there have been a lot of smaller fixes that are constantly happening before release. We have a lot of content planned in the hopper. Now that the game is a bit more stable, we'll be able to focus on actually adding new things, rather than just fixing stuff. See you on the 17th!

[ 2022-08-03 11:43:50 CET ] [ Original post ]