Star Survivor

You pilot one of humanity’s last spaceships in top-down battles against growing swarms of alien enemies. Survive each encounter as you move through the battlefield and your ship’s automatic weapons attack.

Build your arsenal from cards and modules, placing weapons across four quadrants for directional, random, or auto-targeting fire. Choose upgrades that reinforce weapons or trigger complementary effects, and combine weapons into altered forms.

Choose from eight ships with different characteristics and abilities. Campaign offers randomized missions, while Challenge lets you craft a deck for specific situations and Endless tests how long your build can last; cards and ships also have unlocks and upgrades.

In the supplied reviews, players who enjoy the game often point to its layered weapon combinations and the experimentation involved in making a build. Some also appreciate having different ships and Campaign and Endless modes to try. Other reviewers criticize weapon balance and mission objectives, so these strengths are not shared by everyone in the sample.