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Lone Survivors

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Updated 29 Oct 2026 · v1.4.1

Face the horde. Find your build. Push a little further.

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Lone Survivors cover featuring a wizard, a hooded swordsman, and an axe-wielding dwarf.

Small beginnings. Overwhelming odds.

Lone Survivors is a top-down, objective-driven survival game. Each run begins with a character and a few choices; weapons, upgrades, and class abilities gradually turn that starting point into a very different build.

The campaign combines surviving enemies with completing objectives. New biomes, events, and bosses ask you to adapt as you go.

THE EXPERIENCE

How it plays

Find your playstyle
Choose a character class and shape a run around its abilities, weapons, and upgrades.
Survive a changing world
Complete campaign objectives while facing enemies, bosses, and events across fantasy biomes.
Keep growing
Unlock persistent upgrades and test your builds in Endless runs.

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Development

I built the class, weapon, upgrade, and progression systems in Godot with GDScript. A shared structure lets me add abilities with their own behaviors.

Pixel-art environments and characters are supported by systems for weather, events, progression, and run statistics. I keep Steam integration separate from the core game so the project can also run outside Steam.

CHANGELOG

Version updates

Release notes and progress, newest first.

v1.4.129 Oct 2026Shrines, Circles & Trials
- Hey Survivors! 1.4.1 is about the things you find out on the map. Shrines, Circles of Power and trials have all been reworked and expanded: ten new or reworked shrines, circles that no longer throw away your progress and can empower a…
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v1.4.012 Oct 2026(More) Weapons Reforged
- Hey Survivors! 1.4.0 is another big one. Every weapon can have its own opacity toggled, 22 weapons got new looks for their attacks and upgrades, there are six new post-legendaries, and a new engine core keeps far bigger late-game hordes…
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Update9 Oct 2026Coming in 1.3.2: five new post-legendaries
- Fuma Shuriken: spent shurikens fly back to you and charge a giant shuriken that hunts the toughest enemy and grinds through everything it touches.
- Lord of the Night: once Overwhelming Swarm's tide passes you, it gathers into one giant bat that latches onto the toughest enemy on screen and drains it, then bursts into three swarms.
- Final Judgment: Purifying Light's True Enlightenment now ends in a nova of light that takes 4% of the max health of everything nearby.
- The Reaping: a Bloodlusting Scythe that has cut 8 enemies stops and reaps the circle around it three times.
- Supernova: spent Absorbing Mage Balls explode, wider the more enemies they absorbed.
- Each one unlocks in the progression tree: Fuma Shuriken in the General tree, the others in their class's tree after an Ascension 3 win.
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Update7 Oct 2026Coming in 1.3.2: weapon makeovers and a faster late game
- 22 weapons are reworked to look and hit the way they should, from the Sky Galleon cannon barrage and the Gunship drone to the Wrecking Ball flail and Death's Head Pestilence, and their legendary and post-legendary upgrades each get a look of their own.
- Purifying Light becomes Absolution: an intensifying holy column with three cleansing beats, whose legendary travels across the field and leaves scorched golden ground behind it.
- Upgrades feel like upgrades: every weapon glints gold for a few seconds after it turns legendary, and common and rare picks get a short flourish of their own.
- Upgrade cards no longer stretch with long text. The full details are in each card's tooltip.
- Late Endless runs are about a third faster with affixed enemies, busy fights are lighter for every weapon, and a bug that flashed white squares late in long fights is fixed.
- Healer enemies heal again, bloodlusted giants can no longer balloon to five times their size, and the reworked weapons get back damage the rework had cost them.
- The Miner gets an optional mouse control: hold to charge, aim with the cursor, and release to swing.
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v1.3.16 Oct 2026Elite Attacks & Sharper Weapons
- All 18 elite types have attack sounds and visual cues.
- Shields, Swords, Crossbows, Lightning, Chains, Meteors, Graviton Orbs, Laser Eye, Cursed Mirror and more have new trails, hits and impacts, and Heavenly Pulse, Pulse of Fire and the vacuum pickup have clearer effects.
- Swords, Lightning and Boomerangs aim through their targets, Crossbow bolts travel to theirs, and Huge Bolts and Great Shot hit across their full width.
- Spears fly faster, pierce four enemies and deal landing damage, with stronger Flurry and Fire Trail upgrades.
- Two new post-legendaries: Phalanx turns your Shields into a moving wall, and Gungnir recalls every lance of light on your fourth throw.
- Graviton Orb's area damage, Singularity, Faster Lasers and several slows now work as described.
- Fixed leaderboard switching showing the wrong board, Near You rankings, Crossbow errors and sounds cutting each other off in busy fights.
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v1.3.05 Oct 2026The Game Juice Update
- Every hit, kill, upgrade card, chest, boss and class ability has new effects and sounds. Bosses make an entrance and go out in a slow-motion chain of explosions, and legendaries slam down with golden shockwaves.
- Every weapon has its own sound, one per shot. New Sounds and Effects tabs in Options set each kind of sound to New, Old or Off, and tune screen shake, flashing, hit pause, vibration and boss intros.
- Boss attacks have clearer warnings and land with more weight, and every boss hit now costs 1 health.
- The pause menu and end screen are rebuilt around your run, and Endless shows your score breakdown and global rank.
- Class select, map select, the collection and the upgrades menu are rebuilt. Map select is now a full-size world map, and your class walks the campaign route from island to island.
- Buying an upgrade sends coins flying from your gold into it, a spark lights up each upgrade it opens, and locked upgrades can be read before you can buy them.
- Crowded late runs are much smoother, so up to 400 enemies can be on screen, up from 260.
- Shrines, Circles of Power and Trials no longer appear on top of you.
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Update4 Oct 2026Coming in 1.3.0: the Game Juice update
- Bosses make an entrance. The first time each one appears in a run, the camera swings over, black bars cut in diagonally with its name, and the fight slows almost to a stop.
- Boss kills end in a slow-motion chain of explosions and a final blast, with the boss's chest bursting out of it.
- Taking a legendary is a moment: it rises over your character in slow motion and slams down with golden shockwaves that push nearby enemies back.
- Upgrade cards make a bigger entrance the rarer they are, and Quick Chests, now on by default, send each reward out in its rarity's colour before it breaks into pixels that fly into you.
- Every weapon has its own sound, one per shot, and weapons that stay out hum quietly. A new Sounds tab sets each kind of sound to New, Old or Off.
- Boss attacks land with weight, have clearer warnings (including attacks that had none), and every boss hit now costs 1 health.
- Every class's active ability has new effects and sounds.
- The pause menu and end screen are rebuilt around your run: each weapon's stats, upgrades and share of the damage, the objectives you finished, what you unlocked, and your MVP weapon.
- Crowded late runs are much smoother, about 45% faster at 250 enemies and three to four times faster at 500, so up to 400 enemies can now be on screen, up from 260.
- A new Effects tab covers screen shake, flashing, hit pause, vibration and boss intros, and Shrines, Circles of Power and Trials no longer appear on top of you.
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v1.2.1128 Sep 2026New Skins & Cheaper Upgrades
- Added nine new skins for three secret classes, each with its own animations, earned by clearing the campaign on Ascension 1, 2 and 3.
- Cut the cost of two class upgrade trees by about 90%, including their weapon unlocks.
- Fixed the missing icon for the Purchase 350 Meta Upgrades achievement.
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v1.2.1010 Aug 2026Queen Bee
- Added the Queen Bee boss to late Grasslands Endless runs.
- Defeating her unlocks the Royal Apiary weapon.
- Unattended Alchemy Tables relocate after a countdown.
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v1.2.912 Jul 2026Placement and leaderboard fixes
- Tightened Alchemy Table placement to avoid out-of-bounds spawns.
- Made the Endless level cap visible in the pause menu and fixed a leaderboard issue.
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v1.2.829 Jun 2026Endless and ability fixes
- Fixed Beach Endless music and Village Endless boss spawning.
- Fixed errors involving grab-all powerups, magic beams, and rescued NPC abilities persisting after death.
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v1.2.727 Jun 2026Damage summary and weapons menu
- Expanded the damage summary with separate weapon, status, amplifier, and crowd-control tracking.
- Reworked the weapons menu and fixed visibility, speed-buff, and Weekly Challenge leaderboard issues.
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Lone Survivors

Face the horde. Find your build. Push a little further.

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Find your playstyle

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