Desktop Survivors 98 is more than just a retro Windows nostalgia trip
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Desktop Survivors 98 offers gamers more than just nostalgia, enhancing the Survivors-like genre with unique mouse-based controls and creative, themed weaponry. Players navigate through waves of enemies while utilizing an old-school mouse pointer to maneuver with precision and speed. The game features single-screen battlefields that lack significant obstacles, allowing players to bunch enemies together for easy elimination. While it includes a Steam Deck mode for analog controls, the mouse-driven gameplay stands out as a draw, letting players deftly weave through enemies effortlessly.
The underlying game takes the Survivors-like genre in interesting directions, with nostalgic computing gags for weapons and unique mouse-based controls for gameplay.
Desktop Survivors differentiates itself with mouse-based controls, allowing for precision movement, contrast to traditional analog stick movement on platforms like Steam Deck.
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