What Video Game Did I Play Yesterday?

Replik Survivors (Lenovo Legion Go)

August 25th, 2025

This is brutally lazy, but I had a crummy day at work and then ate too much spaghetti, so there's no screenshots today. I played a lot of games yesterday and I lack the energy to transfer and edit everything.

Yesterday, I set out to get the last two Steam achievements in Cat Survivors and finally get it off my plate. I got one, but the final achievement requires a lot of grinding. Right now, I'm playing the same level over and over, and I have so many upgrades it's not challenging anymore. I burned out fast.

Once that happened, I decided I was just going to chip away at some of the other Survivors-likes, or bullet heaven games, I have on hand. I got Replik Survivors, a more wave-based game going, but it kept crashing mid-run. Losing progress was much worse than being a little bored, so I gave up on that pretty quickly.

From there, I grabbed my Switch to play a bit of W.A.N.D. Project, another wave-based Survivors-variant. This game just doesn't click with me, though. The combat portions are fun, and I like the magical girl vibes, but the chip-based upgrading eludes me and makes me feel a bit dumb. I'll keep coming back to it, though. It's just neat enough that I want to hit my stride in it.

I did click with Legendary Heroes Survivors when I grabbed my Legion Go again. It uses a very RPG-ish progression and stage system, and I think that works well with this genre. Since I was moving through stages at a good clip, it had a nice feeling of progress. Plus, it had some cute monsters.

The last one I did a run in was Carrot Survivors. I like this one and think it's funny, but it makes me feel kind of overwhelmed and sleepy. I might take that knowledge and start using it to put myself to sleep at night, but last night, at 8pm, it just put me off games for the rest of the evening.

May 2nd, 2025

My allergies are still wrecking me, so this is going to be a shorter post than these games deserve! I played through Where Kiwis last night, which was cute, brief, and let me find kiwi birds and kiwi fruits both.

I was in a Vampire Survivors mood, so I played a few rounds of that, accomplishing nothing.

I tried Replik Survivors, too, which was interesting and vaguely mysterious.

The weekend is ahead, and one of my friends gave me a Steam key for Andros Dunos 2, which I am excited to try, but for now, I gotta get some rest.