[Mobile] Twilight Survivors Review & User Ratings

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Twilight Survivors is a great reverse bullet hell roguelike shooter with neat permanent progression and some of the best aesthetics in the genre. It’s also free and has no ads at all.

The game is split into 10-15 minute stages with a final boss at the end, and our task is to survive the thousands of enemies storming at us using one of several unique heroes.

We move around with a left-side joystick and either auto-shoot our standard attack or, optionally, aim it with a right-side joystick. And every time we level up, we get to unlock or upgrade one of three random weapons or skills that auto-trigger at certain intervals.

What immediately stood out to me is how powerful our standard attack is. This makes the first few minutes of each playthrough much more exciting than in many other games in the genre.

But the most interesting mechanic is that max-level weapons and skills can combine into a powerful “super weapon”. So a large part of the meta game revolves around exploring which combinations of skills and weapons provide which super weapon.

In between runs, we unlock additional weapons and skills and improve each hero through a stat-boost talent tree and equipable cards that give our hero new powers.

The isometric perspective and 3D enemies help make the creatures stand out from the background, and the cute art style looks great. Some maps even have special effects, like icy maps where our walk speed decreases unless we stay close to a bonfire.

Twilight Survivors monetizes via a $4.99 iAP to unlock all heroes and a few extra iAPs for stat boosts that are not at all necessary.

It’s not a hardcore roguelike, but it’s one of my favorite bullet heaven games of the year.

 

Twilight Survivors Review & User Ratings