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Desktop Survivors 98 is a chaotic roguelite dungeon crawler that unfolds right on your Desktop. Your cursor becomes the hero as you explore new rooms, battle relentless waves of enemies, and collect powerful new weapons.

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Desktop Survivors 98 Demo Update v1.29

Jan 25

✨ New Features

"3D" Environmental Art:
New environmental assets have been added, inspired by 90s game art. This includes updated visuals for crates, barrels, doors, shop tables, and chests.

Treasure Chest Mechanic:
Treasure rooms and keys have been removed. Treasure chests are now occasional room rewards with a revamped opening mechanic to make them more fun.

Dungeon Wallpaper:
A brand new dungeon wallpaper has been created that better fits the new environment aesthetic.

End Fight Button:
An "End Fight" button now appears in the bottom-left corner after one minute in a room (excluding boss fight). Clicking it ends the fight but forfeits XP and Gold from remaining enemies.

🗡️ Weapon Rebalancing

All weapons have been revisited and rebalanced.
Notable updates include:
Firewall: Nerfed for balance. No longer applies knockback.
Minesweeper: Mines now spawn near the center.
Paint Brush: Visuals and behavior have been revamped, and now more optimized.

🔧 Gameplay Tweaks

Enemy Projectiles:
All enemy projectiles are now red with a red line trail, making them easier to see amidst the chaos. Additionally, projectiles are now invincible and must be dodged to avoid damage.

Grid-Aligned Room Furniture:
Room furniture now spawns in a grid-like fashion with improved spawning rules, creating a cleaner room layout.

Level-Up and Treasure Effects:
New visual effects have been added to make treasure chest openings and leveling up feel more exciting.

+XP and +GP Indicators:
Moved to the Taskbar HUD for a less intrusive display.

King Fight Updates:

Defeating the King now rewards a generous treasure chest with gold and the Recycle bonus.
The King cannot damage the player until he starts attacking.
The King's health now scales based on your Recycle stat.

Shop Room Changes:
Shop doors have been removed for a more RNG-driven experience. Shops are now discovered by chance. This may change in the future.

In-Game Wallpaper Behavior:
Using an in-game wallpaper now ensures the game will not render above everything else. This allows you to open and interact with other windows on top of the game.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where Pointers wouldn't appear properly when using the Floppy Disk upgrade.
Fixed bug where fights wouldn't end.
Fixed the white text issue on the level-up menu.
Fixed an issue where unlocking an item mid-run would add it to the level-up pool, causing the game to crash when acquired with a full inventory.
Fixed an issue where enemies would sometimes shrink over time.

Desktop Survivors 98

This game changes your desktop background and windows theme.

Happened on Windows 11. Doesn't change it back upon exit. That's the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

Gabworth

Mar 11 @ 11:05am

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Desktop Survivors Demo Patch v1.28

Jan 18

Hey! I'm very happy to announce that the demo now has controller support and steam deck compatibility! Along with many other tweaks. Thanks so much to everyone for all of the awesome support and feedback as I continue to work on the full game. <3
- Brandon

✨ New Features

Full Controller Support:
Control the cursor with a controller, complete with a right-trigger speed boost. When using a controller, a fake cursor will be enabled. A Controller Sensitivity option has also been added to the settings menu.

Console Mode (Steam Deck):
The game now supports OpenGL, making it compatible with Steam Deck and full-screen play via Steam Big Picture mode. An option to launch in Console Mode is now available when you launch the game through Steam.

Pause Menu:
You can now press ESC to pause the game, opening a small pause menu at the cursor's location. The game can still be toggled by clicking on Swordy.

Desktop Shortcuts:
Desktop icons have been added as extra flair when using an in-game wallpaper. They behave similarly to the Begin menu buttons.

Room Navigation:
You can now navigate rooms using arrow keys, WASD, or D-Pad without needing to click on doors.

🔧 Gameplay Tweaks

HUD and GUI Overhaul:
The HUD has been revamped with dynamic resizing based on inventory, repositioned taskbar elements, and added HP text. The achievement menu has also been resized to be less tall.

Boss HP Bar:
A boss HP bar now appears at the top of the screen during the King fight.

Enemy Spawning Behavior:
Enemies now spawn away from the side of the screen where the cursor is located, hopefully reducing spawn-related frustrations.

Fractional Stat Chance Rolls:
Integer-based stats with remainders now use chance rolls. For example, Amount of 1.4 gives a 40% chance to fire an additional projectile.

Enemy Projectile HP:
All enemy projectiles now have HP.

On-Screen Enemy Projectile Limit:
Limited the number of projectiles enemies can have on screen at a time for better performance and balance.

✨ Polish and Visual Updates

Pop-Up Text for XP and Gold:
Added +XP and +G pop-ups for clear feedback when collecting resources.

Start Room Campfire:
A campfire has been added to the first room as a visual marker for the starting area.

King's Intro Dialogue:
Added dialogue for the King on your first visit to bring more personality to the encounter.

Developer Message:
A small developer message has been added to the start of the Calibration Wizard.

🗡️ Weapon Changes

Fishing Pole: Revamped to grapple and fling enemies away. Upgrades allow grappling more enemies, and "Amount" now adds additional fishing lines.
Minesweeper: Added a slight detonation delay, allowing more enemies to be caught in the blast.
Pointers: Now always active during combat to make them more effective.
Pinball: Now bounces endlessly off enemies without removing the projectile.
Cookie Crumbler: Manual clicks now deal 25% of the weapon's base damage (minimum of 1).

🔧 Enemy Behavior Changes

Fairy: Movement heavily nerfed; they now flutter toward the cursor instead of large circles.
Purple Mage: Projectiles now move in small circles toward the cursor.
Skeleton Mage: Bone circles have smaller radii.
Fire Mage: Fireballs are larger, slower, and leave a small fire trail.

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Desktop Survivors 98 Demo Update v1.26

Dec 31, 2024

✨ New Features

Wallpaper Settings:
A highly requested feature has been added—players can now set a wallpaper behind the game! Choose from pre-packaged wallpapers or add your own custom ones to personalize your experience. This can be found in the Settings menu.

Item Recycling:
A new "Recycle" stat has been introduced, allowing players to remove items during a run. Each dungeon completion grants a permanent +1 stat bonus to your cursor.

Shield Stat and Failsafe Passive:
The Dodge stat has been removed and replaced with a new Shield stat. Shields absorb damage, with one shield being removed per hit and resetting after each fight. A new passive item, Failsafe, has been added, granting +1 Shield per level-up.

🔧 Tweaks

Dropped Item Movement:
Dropped items (XP, Gold, etc.) now move towards the cursor beyond the base pickup radius.

Health Regeneration Display:
Health regeneration numbers will no longer display if your health is already full.

Fairy Movement Adjustment:
Fairy enemies have had their movement speed reduced.

🐛 Bug Fixes

Enemy Transparency Fix:
Revisited the enemy transparency bug that occurred during level-ups. This issue has been addressed and should now function correctly.

Key Spawning Improvements:
Key spawning has been improved once again to ensure proper functionality in treasure rooms.

Cookie Pointer Bug:
Fixed an issue where leveling up outside of a fight would spawn auto-clickers in the middle of the screen.

Desktop Survivors 98

Steam Deck Support

I would like to ask to the developers if they are planning to support Steam Deck.

Er Prosciuttaro

May 4 @ 6:49pm

General Discussions

A few things I've notice while playing the demo

Firstly I want to say this game is so cool and I love it a ton but there are a few things that I've noticed. One of the issues is firewall is so so so broken. I feel like firewall blocking ALL projectiles instead of having a chance to makes it incredibly busted. You can kinda just sit there and do nothing if firewall is a high enough level and clear every room. Also a pretty substantial bug I've found is when having a full inventory and then unlocking a new weapon the new weapon can appear in the weapon se...

Nut Bucket

Jan 10 @ 6:40am

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Game assumes your taskbar is at the bottom

I have my taskbar on the top and it's annoying to always adjust the window to take advantage of the bottom of the screen every time I launch it.

Eyevou

Jan 28 @ 9:02am

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Finished the demo

The game is pretty good, and I hope it succeeds and makes it to a full release. Although, there are 3 main critiques I have: 1. Rooms that contain nothing but fast enemies (like bats, spiders, rats, and fairies) for most, if not the whole 60 seconds are absolute BS. The screen becomes a mess of objects and it's seemingly impossible to avoid being hit if you're not good at dodging everything/have good AoE items. Maybe tone down the amount of fast enemies, or make them super easy to defeat (like 1 hit kills ...

idkausername

Mar 1 @ 9:50am

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