Info about Nomad Survival:

Official game description:
Nomad Survival is an auto-attacking, wave clearing, time-based Roguelite, where you can expect to become stronger as you play through each run as you upgrade your stats. The gameplay involves waves of enemies from all angles coming to defeat you, with each minute changing what types of enemies may be coming and how they behave in a predictable fashion. You control the movement of your _Character_, automatically using abilities available to you to defeat your foes, acquiring new abilities (or leveling up old ones) whenever you acquire enough experience to level up.  
**You can have as many abilities as you want**, with each non-passive ability granting bonus effects at levels 5 and 10 (10 being the max level an ability can be).  
Each _Character_ boasts a different style of play through **Weapon Skills**, which is the special innate ability each Character starts with that is exclusive to them and can be specialized further with branching paths called **Weapon Skill Evolutions**. Characters can then be given a **Heritage**, which further changes how the game is played. The _Nomad Heritage_, for example, offers the player an additional reroll on level up, whereas the _Poxbringer Heritage_ converts all of your damage into damage-over-time instead.  
While there are only four Maps to be played, each Map is wildly different in more than just the difficulty and density of enemies. Each Map also boasts **unique events** that complicate the run and keep you on your toes, as well as **4 unique Boss encounters** which will require you to adapt your strategy to overcome.
Here's a brief overview of what you can expect when playing Nomad Survival:
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*   3 Unique Characters (6 more which can be unlocked!)  
*   17 Active Abilities and 19 Passive Abilities  
*   1 Heritage (8 more which can be unlocked!) which change the playstyle of each run.  
*   4 Maps, each with 4 Boss encounters.  
*   Modifiable Game Speed. Play at 150% or even 300% Game Speed!  
*   100+ Achievements, some of which unlock new features.  
*   20+ Stats to be Upgraded.  
*   5 Pets to aid you in battle, each offering different perks and skill trees.  
*   2 Challenges for every map, which offer a unique spin and a change of pace.
The game is all about finding builds that you feel are powerful and fun, while also never making the game too easy to play that it becomes boring. The first Map allows for you to enjoy the game and experiment with various stats while taking on unique challenges, whereas the second Map is significantly more difficult and will preset a serious challenge to anyone that wants to test their mettle against more serious opponents, events, and Boss enemies.  
Feel like the game is too slow? Increase the Game Speed at the Level Selection screen. You can make the game 50%, 100%, or even 200% faster, for a true test of your skill and reflexes!

Release date: Oct 8, 2022

Categories: Roguelite, Bullet Heaven, Character Progression, Survivor-like, Auto-attacking, Wave-based Survival, Class-based Gameplay, Achievements

Feature scans:
- Proton/Linux: score 10; verdict: Works Well; summary: The game is compatible with Steam Deck, providing a decent roguelike experience without any notable issues.
- Steam Deck: score 55; verdict: Tinkering Required; summary: The game Nomad Survival has several issues on the Steam Deck, primarily related to controller support, UI/UX, and stability. Users have reported that the game often relies on mouse-pointer based controls, which is not ideal for a Steam Deck experience. Additionally, there are frequent crashes and issues with the controller UI that need improvement. These issues collectively detract from the overall user experience.

- Hardware Profile: No data
Feature extractions:
- Community Price:
  - Community fair range: $2.00 - $5.00
  - Reasoning: The evidence suggests that the game is considered to have good value at lower price points, such as $3, and is still seen as a cheap title even at full price. Comparisons to Vampire Survivors indicate that the game is worth its price, even if it is seen as inferior to its competitor. This suggests that the community finds the game to be fairly priced within a lower range.
- Playtime Metrics:
  - Game completion: 60.0h
  - Story completion: 17.0h
  - Session length: 0.5h
  - Endgame: 25.0h
  - Reasoning: The evidence provides direct statements about the time required to achieve 100% completion and obtain all achievements in the game. One user mentions that playing at 200% speed, their 20 hours equates to around 60 hours at normal speed for 100% completion. Another user states it takes roughly 25-30 hours to get all achievements. Additionally, a user with 99/101 trophies reports around 17 hours of gameplay, indicating significant progress towards full completion. These quotes help estimate the typical playtime for game completion and story completion, as well as provide insight into session lengths and endgame content.
- Time-to-fun:
  - Summary: The game is initially fun but can become repetitive and tedious over time. Fun increases significantly after unlocking certain upgrades and characters.
  - Stance: Fun then drops
  - Anchor: Unlocking upgrades and new characters
  - Time to anchor: 2h 0m
  - Friction: repetitive gameplay; tedious early stages; steep learning curve
  - Unlock drivers: upgrades; new characters; achievements
  - Conditions: customizable difficulties; addictive progression system; flexible build experimentation
- Player Archetypes:
  - Strategic Planner (buy)
    - Motivation: Enjoys the strategic depth and planning aspects of the game.
    - Playstyle: Plans runs carefully, enjoys meta-progression and achievement hunting.
    - Experience: familiar
    - Purchase stance: buy
    - Labels: fan of the genre; strategy lover
    - Reference games: Vampire Survivors
  - Grind Enthusiast (sale)
    - Motivation: Enjoys the progression and grinding aspects of the game.
    - Playstyle: Focuses on grinding for upgrades and achievements, appreciates speed-up options.
    - Experience: veteran
    - Purchase stance: sale
    - Labels: grind enjoyer; completionist
    - Reference games: Vampire Survivors
  - Casual Newcomer (deep sale)
    - Motivation: Seeks a casual and accessible gaming experience.
    - Playstyle: Enjoys the game for its simplicity and straightforward gameplay.
    - Experience: newcomer
    - Purchase stance: deep sale
    - Labels: new to the genre; casual gamer
    - Reference games: Vampire Survivors


Below are summaries of things people say about the game per category.
Each point is assigned a weight that represents how often it is mentioned across all reviews.
What players like:
- Fun and addictive gameplay (weight 0.94): The game offers a highly enjoyable and addictive gameplay experience, with many players finding it fun and engaging for several hours.
- Variety of skills and builds (weight 0.8): The game offers a wide variety of skills, combinations, and build options, allowing players to customize their gameplay experience.
- Smooth and simple controls (weight 0.27): The controls are smooth, simple, and well-designed, making the game easy to pick up and play.
- Compared to Vampire Survivors (weight 0.27): The game is often compared to Vampire Survivors, with some players finding it to be a good or even better alternative.
- Variety in character classes (weight 0.23): The game offers a variety of character classes and heritages, which significantly impact gameplay and provide diverse options.
- Great soundtrack (weight 0.22): The game features an excellent and varied soundtrack that enhances the overall gaming experience.
- Good value for price (weight 0.19): Players find the game to be a good value for its price, offering a lot of content and enjoyment for a low cost.
- Challenging and satisfying bosses (weight 0.15): The game features challenging bosses with unique abilities, providing satisfying and engaging boss fights.
- Varied levels and enemies (weight 0.14): Each level in the game is slightly different, featuring new enemies and challenges, although there are only four levels in total.
- Satisfying progression system (weight 0.12): The game offers a solid and smooth progression system, giving players a satisfying sense of progression.
- Strategic gameplay mechanics (weight 0.12): The game features strategic gameplay mechanics, requiring players to employ different strategies to succeed.
- Lots of unlockables (weight 0.12): The game offers a large number of unlockables, including characters and other content, providing players with plenty to discover and achieve.
- Options to speed up gameplay (weight 0.11): The game includes options to speed up gameplay, making grinding more bearable and allowing players to customize their experience.

Common complaints:
- Repetitive gameplay (weight 0.34): The gameplay is described as repetitive and monotonous. Players find the scenarios and gameplay loop to be repetitive, leading to a lack of engagement.
- Progression and grinding (weight 0.32): Players report slow progression and excessive grinding required for unlocks and meta upgrades. The experience gains are seen as too small for the number of skills.
- Gameplay and balance issues (weight 0.3): Players report unenjoyable gameplay due to poor controls and balance issues. The game is seen as having significant problems with character strength imbalance and overall gameplay balance.
- Graphical shortcomings (weight 0.3): The graphics are criticized for being dull, shabby, and pixelated. Players feel that the visuals are not exceptional and could be improved.
- Lack of content depth (weight 0.29): The game is criticized for not having extensive content and lacking replay value. Players feel there is a lack of depth and unique ideas, making the content feel shallow compared to similar games.
- Frequent crashes (weight 0.29): The game is reported to crash frequently, making it unplayable at times. Players experience accidental restarts and game freezing issues.
- Comparison to Vampire Survivors (weight 0.29): Many players compare the game unfavorably to Vampire Survivors, noting that it has less content, is more boring, and generally does not measure up to the quality and quantity of features in Vampire Survivors.
- Difficulty spikes (weight 0.25): The game has sudden difficulty spikes, with some levels being unreasonably hard. Players find the difficulty curve to be uneven and frustrating.
- Enemy design issues (weight 0.22): Enemies are described as boring and poorly designed. Players also note that enemies lack variety and challenge, making the gameplay less engaging.
- Menu and control issues (weight 0.21): The menus and setup lack polish, and there are issues with controller navigation. Players find the menu navigation to be inconsistent and unpleasant.
- Lack of variety in weapons and skills (weight 0.21): The game is criticized for lacking variety in weapons and passives. Players feel that the skills lack unique features and special mechanics.
- Pacing and gameplay experience (weight 0.15): The pacing of the game is described as very bad and uneven. Players find that the gameplay becomes tedious and frustrating, especially upon dying.
- Localization and translation issues (weight 0.09): The game has incomplete localization, with some translations being incomplete or missing. This affects the overall experience for non-English speaking players.
- Hitbox and gameplay mechanics (weight 0.09): Players report issues with hitboxes feeling wrong and wonky. The gameplay mechanics are seen as unpolished and frustrating.

Gameplay feedback:
- Similar to Vampire Survivors (weight 0.3): The game is frequently compared to Vampire Survivors, with players noting similarities in gameplay mechanics, character upgrades, and overall formula.
- Varying difficulty modes (weight 0.24): The game offers multiple difficulty settings and challenge modes, providing players with different levels of difficulty to choose from.
- Progression system (weight 0.22): The game features a progression system with resources, upgrades, unlocks, and pets, providing players with various ways to advance.
- Roguelite survival mechanics (weight 0.17): The game features roguelite mechanics, including survival elements and auto-shooting gameplay typical of the genre.
- Survivor-like gameplay (weight 0.17): The game follows the survivors-like formula, offering gameplay similar to other titles in the survivors-like subgenre.
- Character skills and upgrades (weight 0.17): Players can upgrade in-game skills to a maximum level and choose from unique character skills, allowing for out-of-game growth and customization.
- Class and heritage selection (weight 0.16): The game allows players to pick a class and heritage, offering a variety of character classes and heritages to choose from.
- Grinding for upgrades (weight 0.15): The game involves grinding for gold and upgrades, with players noting an average level of grinding required to progress.
- Variety of enemies (weight 0.13): The game offers a variety of enemies, bosses, and combat options, ensuring diverse gameplay experiences.
- Multiple classes and sub-classes (weight 0.13): Players can choose from 9 classes and 9 sub-classes, offering a wide range of character customization options.
- Bullet heaven gameplay (weight 0.12): The game is described as a bullet heaven, featuring intense gameplay with a high volume of bullets on screen.
- Additional maps (weight 0.12): The game includes different maps and content, providing players with varied environments to explore.
- Rerolls for abilities (weight 0.12): The game features a system for rerolling abilities, allowing players to level up and customize their character's abilities.
- Weapon and passive selection (weight 0.12): The game offers a different weapon and passive selection system, allowing players to choose from various weapons, skills, and passives at the start.
- Adjustable game speed (weight 0.11): Players can adjust the overall game speed, allowing for a customized gaming experience.

Performance notes:
- Gamepad control issues (weight 0.2): Players experienced broken and unintuitive gamepad controls, including delays and issues specific to the Steam Deck.
- Frequent game crashes (weight 0.17): Multiple players reported frequent game crashes, with some noting crashes at specific settings or around the 25-minute mark.
- Low system requirements (weight 0.13): The game has low system requirements and can run on almost any computer, with a small download size of only 100MB.
- Performance issues (weight 0.13): Players reported various performance issues, including keyboard lag, game speed issues, and FPS drops.
- Steam Deck compatibility (weight 0.1): The game is Steam Deck Verified and runs smoothly on the Steam Deck, although there are some controller issues.
- Steam integration issues (weight 0.09): Some players had to restart Steam to play the game again, and others reported that Steam showed the game as running after exiting.
- Alt + Enter causes bugs (weight 0.05): Using Alt + Enter may cause bugs in the game.

Recommendations:
- Recommended for Vampire Survivors fans (weight 0.35): The game is frequently recommended to fans of Vampire Survivors and similar titles. Players who enjoy this genre will likely find it appealing and feel at home with its mechanics.
- Better alternatives available (weight 0.21): Some players suggest alternatives like Halls of Torment, Death Must Die, and HoloCure. These games are mentioned as better options in the genre.
- Highly recommended for its unique features (weight 0.17): The game is praised for its active development, unique features, and value for money. Players appreciate the frequent updates and the amount of content provided.
- Recommended with reservations (weight 0.11): The game is recommended only if players are really hard up for the type or as part of a charity pack. This suggests it may not be a top-tier choice but still has its merits.
- Hidden gem in the genre (weight 0.09): The game is described as a hidden gem, offering a fresh experience within its genre. This suggests it has unique qualities that stand out.
- Tightly constructed bullet-heaven experience (weight 0.06): The game is noted for being a strong choice for those looking for a well-constructed bullet-heaven experience with plenty of room for experimentation.
- Accessible for newcomers (weight 0.06): Newcomers to the genre will find the game accessible and invigorating. It offers a good entry point for those new to this type of game.
- Part of Humble Choice bundle (weight 0.05): The game is mentioned as part of the Humble Choice bundle, which can be an additional incentive for players to try it out.
- Suggested improvements for upgrades (weight 0.05): There is a suggestion for more out-of-game upgrades and pet upgrades. This indicates players are looking for additional features and enhancements.

Other player notes:
- Game on sale at low price (weight 0.05): The game is currently available at a discounted price, making it an attractive purchase for budget-conscious players.
- Supports Chinese language (weight 0.05): The game includes Chinese language support, which can be beneficial for Chinese-speaking players and broaden its accessibility.
- Suitable for neuropathy patients (weight 0.05): The game is designed to be accessible for players with neuropathy, ensuring that it can be enjoyed by a wider range of players with different needs.

Emotions:
- Enjoyment (weight 0.23): Players enjoy the variety of skills, weapons, and character customization options, which provide a fun and addictive gameplay experience. The survival combat, progression system, and interaction with the developer contribute to a polished and engaging game.
- Frustration (weight 0.2): Players are frustrated with the game's balance issues, high difficulty in later levels, and repetitive elements. Technical problems such as poor controls, UI issues, and frequent crashes also contribute to this frustration.
- Disappointment (weight 0.19): Players feel disappointed due to the game's lack of unique content and depth compared to similar games like Vampire Survivors. Issues such as game crashes, repetitive gameplay, and lack of innovation also contribute to this disappointment.
- Satisfaction (weight 0.11): Players are satisfied with the game's value for money and the variety of gameplay mechanics. The enjoyable gameplay, unique features, and developer responsiveness contribute to a positive experience.
- Boredom (weight 0.04): Players experience boredom due to the repetitive gameplay and lack of variety. The game's pacing and similarity in play styles among characters also contribute to this feeling.
- Excitement (weight 0.04): Players are excited about the fast-paced gameplay, variety in classes, and unique map events. The addictive nature of the game and the anticipation of future updates also contribute to this excitement.
- Frustrated (weight 0.01): Players are frustrated due to frequent crashes and lack of challenge in the later stages of the game. The game design and difficulty also contribute to this frustration.
- Addiction (weight 0.01): Players find the game addictive due to its engaging and time-consuming gameplay mechanics.
- Relaxed (weight 0.01): Players find the game's simple and relaxing gameplay to be a calming experience.
- Surprise (weight 0.01): Players are pleasantly surprised by the unexpected enjoyment they derive from the game.
- Angry (weight 0.01): Players are angry due to the game's frequent crashes, which disrupt the gameplay experience.}