Survivor.io

Been playing for a few weeks, good time waster if you like, and it is pretty fun. The variety and gameplay seems deep at first glance. The absolute review killer here, THE ADS. It's not the amount of them, bc a lot of them are optional (for daily rewards, etc.) but every so often an AD will appear that is impossible to exit from. As in, no tiny little microscopic, and extremely difficult to click-on "X" appears on the ad to allow you to go back to the game. That is terribly frustrating.

It's fun for the first few hours or so, but it gets repetitive fast. In terms of weapons and armor you bring into the game, it's pretty much gacha. You open boxes and you get them that raises your attack and def. Other than that not a huge difference. In-game skills, there are probably around 8-10 different active skills and a few passive ones. After a couple hours, you pretty much stick to one combo and it gets boring. Definitely needs more skill items to mix it up.

Simple and straight forward. This is just right for a mobile game. And it can be more difficult than one would think, forcing you to change your improvement path to overcome the level. Updated January 19th, 2023: After stage 2 the control sensitivity/latency is garbage. My character has the turn ratio of a canoe in mud. I made it to level 4 and, again, levels 1 & 2 do NOT have this problem. This needs to be fixed. I dropped my rating to 2 stars and may drop the game entirely.

The game has fun gameplay mechanics. But minus 1 for how many different microtransaction sale pop ups there are in the game. Then minus 2 for the ads. Which are awful. For one. The new ads by Magic The Gathering do not have a way to end them, every time the magic ad comes up I have to restart the game because the ad seems like it freezes at the end. Nothing is clickable, no X to close out. Restarting to get rid of it and you don't even get the worthless prize for watching in the first place. Then all other ads. Equally trash ad suppliers. All of them cause the actual app store to open regardless of anything you do, then when the X to close out the ad does come up, they either make the click box so small that it takes multiple clicks to try to get the X to actually be clicked ( and each failed click re brings up the app store), or they do something to hide the X entirely. One ad had the location of the white X be all white as well. Another had a bunch of overlapping spiderwebs in the area to make it harder to see where the X to close the ad is. So pretty much this games ad supplier is making them be another creepy game you probably shouldn't let your kids play. Especially since some of the ads are for NC17 material.

The ads are atrocious. If you can, get the monthly ad removal, it'll save your sanity. The equipment leveling system is obviously geared towards those willing to spend money every day to buy chests. You want to look up the best equipment before you start merging. Most levels in the game are at least 15 minutes long, usually 18 or so. However, once your sufficiently leveled, you can basically AFK. The game is boring and the events are boring.

So the game is good in generality but the problem with it is if you get disconnected or something happens with your internet it will just not save anything that you’ve just done and this happened like 4 times In one day where I would clear the trials and everything but I got disconnected from the internet for some reason and it didn’t save or give me any rewards at all and don’t even get me started on how the shop is completely trash with you being able to spend the same amount of gems on two different chests but one is somehow better than the other even though they rarely ever give better loot than the lowest level chest in the game like come on. On top of that the fact that I can spend 300 gems which equates to about $2 on the highest level chest in the game and get the same loot as the lowest level chest in the game and it’s not even uncommon that you do so. Then there’s the fact that if your game freezes or crashes or just stops working and you have no more stars to start a game but you were already in one it won’t let you resume from where you were effectively ruining all the progress you had even if you were literally a millisecond away from winning. So overall a fun game for a good minute until you actually start to pay attention to detail and realize that it’s kind of a sloppy mess of a game that feels like it was thrown together in a week by someone in their bedroom.

So once Argentina won, and I bet 850 scarfs on them, they never updated the game so then I would receive my tokens. And when they do, they only gave us less and a day to use them. LIKE WHAT???? Yk how much work and time I put into earning those to use. Not only that but saving thousands of tokens??? Just to lose it all and be given a small amount of 2000 coins ( which is less than when they give you for daily free coins in the shop which is like 6 times more.) stupid game. Weeks wasted. They should’ve given Atleast a week for everyone to actually get to use their tokens. Trash game event ruined my experience. Edit: I did pay attention to the event. I literally came in every day. 11pm on the day Argentina won WC, I checked in again because last time I checked in at 5pm after they won, I was expecting for the tokens to be distributed but they hadn’t yet. At 11pm that day it still wasn’t. The next day I checked in at 2pm and it still wasn’t. The day after that (2 days since WC finals) I checked in at 10am and boom, the event had dissapeared and the exchange was gone. Not even 20 hours in between and the apparently the game distributed the rewards and let the players exchange. That’s stupid. Exchanges on any game for events always are Atleast 24 hours. This one wasn’t even close to being 24 hours and it closed the exchange.

Honestly having a really fun time with the game its just that i finished the first stage with pretty much ease then i got to the second stage mostly easy until the end when the giant centipede that has more aggression than any elden ring boss i got killed in 5 hits with 50 percent damage resistance and he charges quickly so it’s basically impossible to avoid getting hit even with the max lvl shoes for 50% speed I'm just completely lost this boss is way to hard for stage 2 Pt2 i still completely agree with what was said above but now that I've played more i truly resize how unbalanced and unfair this game is the rng factor is fun but if you get unlucky the game is physically unbeatable the range of enemies and the environment of the game just stays the same basically. its pretty sad considering how diverse other games by this developer are i just dont understand why there are basically 8 weapons upgrades to chose from its legit use the same stuff every single game or you lose i think more items weapon’s and or more events would make this game much more enjoyable. I only rate 1 star until game is fixed i think it has so much potential tho it’s really fun to be honest just frustrating to do the same thing over and over to gain no progress Part 3 this game is awful and a complete waste of time Im going to shoot myself