DVD Survivors-4481810

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About This Game

You're the bouncing DVD Survivor.
The one you stared at in silence, hoping it would hit the corner.
Now it does... and everything on the screen regrets it.

DVD Survivors is a bullet-heaven roguelike where you bounce off the edges of the screen, grab weapons, stack a build that probably shouldn't work, and obliterate waves of digital garbage like pop-up ads, error windows, crypto miners, cookie banners, Clippy, and a whole lot worse. Runs are 8 minutes, but the "just one more" loop is not.

60+ WEAPONS. 46 EVOLUTIONS. 24 SYNERGIES.

Pick up weapons and pair them with passives to trigger evolutions, then pair passives with each other to unlock synergies. You'll go in thinking you're building around Pixel Beam, pick up a Meme Cannon because nothing better showed up, accidentally trigger two synergies, and somehow end the run stronger than if you'd stuck to the plan.

• Pixel Beam + HDMI Cable = Gigapixel Laser

• Static Discharge + Overclocked = Thunderstorm.exe

• Firewall Protection + Bandwidth = VPN

• Open Source + Dark Mode = Nuclear Option

• Corner Strike + Refresh Rate = Corner Singularity

135+ ENEMIES

Pop-up Ads. Crypto Miners. Cookie Banners. Trojan Horses. TikTok. Clippy's Revenge. NES cartridges. Doge. Rickroll. Nyan Cat. Amogus. There are 14 bosses with unique mechanics and 18 elite modifiers that stack on top of each other. If you've hated something on a screen, it's probably in here.

CORNER SLOTS

When you hit a corner, the game loses its mind. Corner Bonus kicks in where the screen flashes, gems pour out everywhere, and you hit 12x speed. It started as the obvious joke and turned into the mechanic everyone actually talks about.

RUN RULES & BONUS OBJECTIVES

Every run rolls a disc condition and a bonus objective. FAST FORWARD. DISC ROT. BOOTLEG PRESSING. COMMENTARY TRACK. The build variety already keeps runs from blurring together, but the run rules make even similar builds play differently.

THE NUMBERS

• 62 weapons across 8 upgrade levels each

• 32 passives across 5 upgrade tiers

• 46 evolutions (weapon + passive combos)

• 24 synergies (passive + passive combos)

• 10 active items

• 20 meta upgrades (permanent progression)

• 20 difficulty levels

• 100+ achievements with hidden challenges

• Full codex tracking everything you've found

DASH. SPRINT. MEGA DASH.

You sprint using stamina. Dashing through enemies does damage and sends out a shockwave. Sprint into a dash and you get a Mega Dash at 1200 px/s which is fast enough that the hitboxes start to feel more like suggestions.

TV CHANNEL EVENTS

The whole game is a malfunctioning DVD player hooked up to a TV that refuses to cooperate, so commercial breaks overlay your run, channel events change the rules mid-game, and broadcast objectives drop in out of nowhere. The TV does not care about your build.

8-MINUTE RUNS. 8 CHAPTERS. ONE MORE ROUND.

Runs are short but the loop isn't.

The DVD Survivor hit the corner.
Now it has a weapon build and a grudge.

FROM THE DEV

I'm one person making this game. There is no backing studio, publisher, or marketing team behind the game or the marketing. The only outside help comes from two specific people:

• an incredible musician, gamer, streamer that has poured intense love into crafting and shaping music for this insane arcade game -> known as "AkaMikeB".

• my brother-in-law providing hours upon hours of game-breaking testing, finding all the weak and terrible design issues or major flaws in the game

DVD Survivors started because I grew up on games like Robotron, Smash TV, Gauntlet, Asteroids... all games where you're dropped in, things come at you from everywhere, and you just survive. Geometry Wars and Nova Drift evolved the hell out of the genre and showed how much depth you could pack into that format without losing the awesome oldschool arcade feel. The bullet-heaven genre cracked open a whole new version of that loop, and I wanted to build something in it that felt like those games I never stopped playing. Then of course the Survivors genre (also inspired by those same old games) blew up, adding amazing buildcrafting and loot and rewards that really rounded out the whole experience. I love all of these, and this game is a love letter, in its own way, to all of the above. 

The DVD logo bit first started as a joke. When I built the prototype and it just worked (the bouncing, the corners, the way the screen becomes the arena)... it stopped being a joke pretty fast and I realized there was some real potential in this game design. I love navigating mazes, dungeons, forests, etc, but I found that taking away the player movement control and navigation actually really opened up some interesting design challenges on the rest of the combat, interactions, and methods of designing for player agency.

Everything in this game is stuff I actually want to play. What this means is that if something felt like filler, I immediately cut it. When a weapon wasn't fun to use, I reworked it or just blatantly threw it out. 62 weapons managed to survived that process, and the ones that didn't simply aren't in the game.

If you pick it up, please leave a review, and be as thorough (and even critical) as you can. It matters more than you'd think for a game this size. And if something's broken or feels off, please tell me! 

I will be working on tweaking balancing, synergies, evolutions, optimizations, and more all centered around maximizing the heck out of the gameplay feel of this intense combat, so expect there to be cool updates!