#survivors of the dawn

[hardcoregamer]

Steam Bullet Heaven Fest Kicks Off with Firepower Overload

There are endless dozens of shooters wreaking havoc in the Bullet Heaven playground right now, and today Steam started a gaming fest to highlight them plus a few other games that can just barely fit within the definition.  Demos, upcoming games, Early Access titles and even a few fully-released games all populate the festival, not to mention a good number of sales.

Check them out!

[veebs-hates-video-games]

I've gotten way behind on posts for here again, so I guess it's time for some more quick multi-game posts to get them done with, starting with three bullet heaven/survivorslike games, and I guess we can go worst to best.

I have very little nice to say about Survivors of the Dawn. I grabbed it because it was on sale and someone on my friends list was playing it, and I got basically zero enjoyment out of it. A lot of my problems like the default move speed and weapon reload speed being agonizingly slow might improve later on with upgrades, but there are so many good games out there in this genre that if I'm not immediately having fun there's no reason to bother finding out.

I got Wedding Witch as a joke and expected absolutely nothing from it, but it's actually fairly competent. Not super difficult and doesn't take too long to finish everything, but it feels good enough to play and has decent abilities and progression. The character physically changing their appearance with different upgrade paths is a great idea that I'd be really into if it weren't just used for horny fanservice. Someone should steal that for a better game.

And finally Soulstone Survivors is genuinely great, up there with Vampire Survivors and 20 Minutes Till Dawn as one of my favorites in the genre. There's something to be said for the elegant simplicity of Vampire Survivors, but I'm also enjoying the added depth some of its descendants have added. This one feels a lot more like a twin stick shooter a lot of the time in terms of how it plays (specifically it's probably the thing that reminds me the most of the Bombing Run mode in Waves, which is the only thing in a game I've ever been ranked in the top 20 in ever), but with a lot more systems interactions with how builds come together. There's some decent variety between characters too, with different unique abilities and skill types they have access too, and probably the most range for build customization I've seen outside of Bio Prototype. 20MTD probably is still the one where they feel the most different to play, but I appreciate the way this feels like theorycrafting and testing a build in an ARPG condensed down to like half an hour or less.

[stealingpotatoes]

I need a second to deal with the fact I apparently only play game serieses abt traumatised ginger warriors with an ability to see the past which star noshir dalal in the sequel

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[dawntrailing]

WELCOME HOME!

[samgiddings]

ashley snaps ✂️

[artctrlcee]

There were two types of reactions to WoL’s adventures in Garlemald.

[goryhorroor]

day 26 of horror: more underrated/obscure essential horror films

[midnightdemonhunter]

Did you know that no two missteps are the same?

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

Aang: How the hell did you two deal with Kyoshi? Kuruk: No idea what you mean by that, Aang. Yangchen: Nope, what do you mean by "deal?" You mean "interfere?" We're dead! We just watched her. Aang: Like, how were you able to stomach watching her???? Yangchen: Easy, with adoring stares. Kuruk: Did you see the way she handled that one politician? Ugh, beautiful. Not that I would know when it comes to dealing with such a thing, but it really was a sight. Yangchen: Oh no, you're right! It really was. Not how I would do it, but results are sometimes more important than the journey. There's more than one way to bake a cake! Aang: SHE KILLED PEOPLE! HOW COULD YOU STOMACH THAT?! Kuruk: Easy, I just ignored it. Aang: YOU WHAT?! Yangchen: You'd be surprised what closing your eyes and covering your ears can do for your conscious, Aang.

[iridescentmemoria]

[heta-magisch]

Using Soma's RPG in Vampire Survivors is fun~

[queenofbaws]

Hi!! I've read your last prompt and I wondered if you could do one in which Jess is the sole survivor?? Maybe how she felt and what she thought after getting rescued from the mines?? Thanks, I hope you're doing okay ;)

It didn't bother her that no one believed her story. Truth be told, she...well...wasn't really sure she believed it, herself.

Maybe she had the first time they'd asked (the officer pale as the helicopter took off, switching between yelling at her and the medics, the medics and her, demanding over and over again that she explain how she'd gotten into the mines in the first place while struggling to meet her eyes), or even the second (that light in her face, so bright it blocked out the others', the sheriff repeating the words 'monster' and 'dragged' until they'd stopped sounding like words at all), but now? Now it had faded at the edges, gone wibble-wobbly as a bad dream she'd woken up in the middle of.

No, the believing wasn't the problem; the believing wasn't what bothered her.

The gaps were.

She'd had a lot of time to sit and think about what had happened - she'd had a lot of time to lie down and think about it, too - and some days it was literally all she had. Between IV bags, she'd close her eyes and work backwards, starting at the helicopter hovering against the grey-gold sky and ending at the nauseous ride up the cable car. After physical therapy, she'd will the tears away by replaying the snowball fight beat by beat: the rush of adrenaline when she dodged just in time, the air cold in her lungs as she laughed, Mike's weight on top of her there at the end, his hands cold but his lips warm, his jacket still smelling faintly of cologne. When the nurses were late with her nighttime meds, she'd struggle to pin down everything in the middle, sorting out what was fact and what was mush.

There'd been a bear, she thought. Or...had she just seen a sign about that?

She'd lost her phone for sure, but...then she'd found it. Where, though? And how? Wait, had it been Mike who'd brought it back to her? But that didn't make any sense, because he'd said they couldn't go outside.

There'd been a bear...no. Well. Maybe. There'd been...something.

And then she'd woken up in the mines. Alone, hurt, and mostly naked. She'd forced herself up, forced herself to move. She'd tiptoed through the darkness until she'd seen the faint light of dawn peeking through an opening ahead, and then...

There'd been a bear.

No.

No, it hadn't been a bear. Because bears were big and bears were fast and bears could open doors (she'd seen it on the internet), but bears weren't that pale or that bony or that long or that angry or that loud or that full of teeth. Bears didn't look like people, she didn't think. Not even if you shaved off all their fur.

But maybe they did. Maybe they did, or maybe she was just remembering it wrong. The police said she was, the sheriff said she was, the doctors said she was, so...that must've been it. She'd hit her head too hard, she'd had some kind of awful nightmare down there in the mines, and when she'd gotten out and heard there'd been a fire, that no one else had made it out of the lodge, that even though he'd come for her once, Mike wouldn't be running through that door to save her now...the nightmare had just gotten bigger, that's all. Her brain had made up a scary story to fill in the scarier gaps. That was all.

That was it.

So when the nurse came in, smiling and saying she had good news, Jess forced herself to let it go, to stop thinking about it, to blearily return her smile and ask if she'd be going home. She wasn't surprised when the nurse's mouth tightened and she said no, not yet anyway, but she was surprised when she held her phone out to her, apologizing for the crack in the screen, explaining that the police had found it as they'd scoured the Washingtons' property, that they'd thought she might want it back.

She took it, and she smiled, and she thanked her, and when she was alone again, she held her breath and booted it up, and...felt her breath catch when it did. Through the spiderweb of cracks, the dead pixels and warped displays, she watched as one, two, three, ten, twenty, fifty, ninety-nine, more messages pinged, filling her messenger, her email, her voicemail, all of it. How many were from her friends, she wondered? Not the ones checking in on her, not the ones safe and warm back home, but the ones she'd never see again - the ones she'd barely even seen in the first place? Her finger hovered over her texts...

Only to open her photo reel instead.

Suddenly all she wanted was to see that selfie again, that horrible, blurry monstrosity she and Mike had taken at the start of their walk. They'd giggled over being sexiled, they'd squinted in the light of her flash, and they'd -

There was a video she didn't remember taking. There was a video she couldn't have taken because she was in it, the briefest flash of her and Mike seen through the window of the Washingtons' guest cabin before the view spun, moved, jetted impossibly high. Now there were shingles (the roof?), now there were trees, now there were stars and the fat, full moon. And then it dropped again, showing a sliver of grey skin. A hand capped by fingernails gone yellow and curly.

Jessica sat up a little straighter in her hospital bed. Before long, the nurse came running back with a partner in tow, the high-pitched beeping of her heart monitor suggesting to them what she already knew. Something was wrong; something was very, very wrong.

The video ended on a black screen. "Uh, Jess?" she heard Mike say as if underwater, the phone's speakers ruined beyond saving. "Found your phone." And then nothing. And nothing. The end.

Yeah, the gaps were what bothered her. The gaps were what scared her most of all.

[kyojirokagenuma]

Commission for Beth Survives Story Finished!

[emmamountebanks]

fav glitch i've encountered is disappearing mike. i wish i captured when the lighter was just floating in the middle of the screen but u can still see it kinda

[kanerallels]

Sometimes I find the best, most fan fiction idea creating facts on Wookipedia. Anyways did you guys know that the planet Birren, where Bode Akuna and his family lived until his wife died, is RIGHT NEXT TO HECKING GORSE??

[jeremycollinsstan]