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Can you survive 28 days in this 1-bit survival adventure? | 1 Bit Survivor - First Impressions
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You have exactly 28 days left to reach the bunker before they bomb the city. You have your trusty car, and a new cat for a companion. You need to stop for gas once a day, and has 4 bullets remaining. Can you survive all 28 days in 1 Bit Survivor?
1 Bit Survivor is a straightforward rogue-lite survival horror in portrait view. The presentation and the atmosphere is definitely classic Resident Evil 2 and 3-style, an obvious inspiration especially with sound bits when starting a session and the menacing sound effects that you hear. On the contrary, the gameplay is far from it with its subtle 1-bit retro game design and stylized monochromatic graphics.
1 Bit Survivor kind of plays like a rogue-like where you need to survive the 28 days, or die trying and have to restart from day 1 again. Start off in a random level biome: sewers, hospitals, graveyards, etc. They are just visual flavor and do not really make a difference with enemies or item spawns. Every 7 days the biomed changes and the game gets slightly harder.
The controls are a bit hard at first, it feels like everything is in a rush with its small cramped levels, thankfully you can tweak the settings and the position of the gun fire button to your liking. I find it better when it is in the center of the D-Pad for movement, and it controls like the old Resident Evil games for some reason.
Even though the game has ultra simplistic mechanics, the tactical aspect caught my attention. The game doesn't explicitly tell you this, but 1 Bit Survivor is sort of turn-based where the game only continues when you are performing an action. If you don’t move, everything else won’t either. So there’s no point in rushing. Once you get the hang of it, the game will be much easier.
Aside from using your pistol with limited ammo, you can also melee the infected, but you risk getting damaged and your health depleted. Different enemies have different durabilities, some will go down in 1 hit, some multiple gunshots or melee attacks. This makes some encounters pretty intense because not everything dies instantly.
Some choices require you to forego an ammo or health pickup so you can escape and not risk death if there are still enemies present, or to carefully balance your supplies; maybe deplete your ammo first before going on an ammo pickup, or in order to save ammo, you can try and exchange melee hits with an enemy first before taking that health pickup.
1 Bit Survivor has very simplistic graphics and mechanics, but it is still effective in portraying a proper survival horror experience with its tactical decision making elements and rogue-like progression system. Very simple to play, but hard to master.
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It has simple graphics but offers a decent survival horror experience | 1 Bit Survivor - Full Review
1 Bit Survivor is a rogue-lite survival horror with simplistic 1-bit graphics but an artistic stylized presentation. The atmosphere is definitely classic Resident Evil 2 and 3-style, an obvious inspiration especially with sound bits when starting a session complete with typewriter sounds to tell the story, and the menacing sound effects that you hear. The comparison however ends there as the gameplay features a 1-bit retro game design and monochromatic graphics.
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So we're currently in the Survivor Game Era, from survivor.io to vampire Survivor and many more survivor games that are built the same way seeing how long you can last while powering up. 1 Bit Survivor tries something a bit different but still very familiar with the format they chose with this game. So The game is played in top down format and you only move to gain gas every day and all of your enemies move per square every time you move so there's a strategy behind your battles. As this game plays just like other roguelikes out there this all have to be done in one run or it's game over. Clicking start gave me heavy resident evil vibes.
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1 Bit Survivor is a roguelike zombie survivor who nods to classic zombie games and films but remains unique. It's fun, simple, addicting, and most importantly, there's a cat to save!
1 Bit Survivor is a simple game of survival where your goal is to make it twenty-eight days without dying. It has an impressive, if not simple, narrative. The world is filled with zombies, and the big bomb is going off in twenty-eight days. Your job is to get you and your cat to the bunker across the country.
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