Latest Updates

Here are the latest update notes imported from the spreadsheet.

11/11/2023 Imported patch notes

11/11/2023 Update

– Removed Necrosmith 1 & 2 (too different to be a priority in comparing), put on to do list
– Today marks 1 month working on this particular google sheet! And it’s in a good place to move from “main project I’m doing as a kind of vacation” to “project I update in my spare time”. Over 100 games fully compared on our scale, with over 70 having data inclusive of developer surveys and/or interviews. Expect less huge updates, just rolling ones as I manage to get enough playtime into games to review them. Next time I have a real ‘vacation’ I’ll probably do another round of contacting devs for surveys and do a bulk update then. Rushing it too much is going to make me hate the genre, so I’ve got to take a bit of a break to play something else haha

11/09/2023 Imported patch notes

11/9/2023 Update

– Added Highway Rampage, Never Mourn, The Unliving
– Ranked and reviewed Bing in Wonderland, Grim Horde, Forest Fire
– Scored Breakout Survivors, The Arena Pit, TYPECAST, Highway Rampage, Kritter by dev submitted scorecard
– Updated run time column info and notes based on dev interview for Nebula, Bore Blasters, Midnight at the Disco and a few others
– Added “Summoning Game” tag, not sure if it’s the best one, so far just on Boneraiser Minions, Grim Horde, and Keepers Toll (partially), and the others we added today Never Mourn and The Unliving. There are others that need it, I’ll add it as they get other info added.
– Added marketing copy / game descriptions to a bunch of games
– Very minor adjustments to some scores based on play

11/08/2023 Imported patch notes

11/8/2023 Update

– Added Spell Hell, Cozy Space Survivors, TYPECAST, Space War: Infinity, Risk of Rain Returns (should we just lump this in with Risk of Rain on the comparison score?)
– Ranked NeuroSquad – Slay the Horde, Saikyo Robots, Cozy Space Survivors, Power Fantasy, BeatPunk! by dev submitted scorecard
– Added discord links to every currently ranked game (finally finishing that project after we added the new column)
– Added run time as well as I could to all the existing ranked games, please offer corrections and notes on it. I know some stuff is technically endless but wasn’t sure to put that there or leave the “average” / “intended” run time that I seem to have found around the internet. (risk of rain 2 for example). This took a while to add to 100 games but I also bugged a lot of devs personally so thank you to all of you who helped me out haha.
– Updated review notes for just about every game already reviewed, adding a few notes to a few that already had little
– Added a bunch of related games (mostly top down wave shooters) to the “to do” list for possible games to add after we’ve caught up on the most closely related survivors-likes