Geometry Survivor Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · February 19, 2024

Geometry Survivor Review is a rogue-lite auto shooter where you must survive for 20 minutes. Fight against waves of geometry ships, defeat their formations and survive the grid world.

Geometry Survivor Review Pros:

Big bright neon graphics.
553.34MB download size.
Steam achievements.
Full controller support.
Graphics settings – resolution, v-sync, anti aliasing, display mode, refresh rate, camera zoom, bloom, screenshake, and distortion.
Roguelike shooter gameplay.
The game plays like Vampire Survivors as in you can only move with your ship shooting randomly.
Power ups can be picked up for more attacks and abilities, collecting the same power up again levels it up.
Earn coins from playing and collecting them in game.
Has a Geometry Wars style to it all.
Bits and coins drop from enemies and collecting them fills your exp bar and then depending on the game mode depends on what happens.
Very simple controls and easy to get into.
The shop let’s you buy permanent upgrades like faster movement or more life.
Many enemy types and like in Geometry Wars they all come in different shapes and colors each with unique traits like some avoid you, some will target you etc.
The life system in play is three hearts and you lose one upon each hit.
Fantastic soundtrack.
The game is quite quick on ramping up the speed and enemy density.
Hearts (life) can be dropped from enemies.
Full stats screen.
Eight game modes to unlock with money and each have a description so you know what you are unlocking.
The shop/upgrades let you reset and get all your coins back whenever you want.
A lightning pickup gives you a magnet effect temporarily and all dropped cash and bits come to you.
The game gets very addictive.
A lot of cool game modes that really mix with the formula.

Geometry Survivor Review Cons:

No leaderboards whatsoever which feels criminal for a game like this!
The Steam achievements are very plain with them being survive X amount of minutes.
At times it feels like the music just stops and starts again.
In particular modes the action just stops and then starts again.
Cannot rebind controls.
Some of the power ups are not great.
Early on you have to try and learn how good a weapon is or what it really does.

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