Reviews

An interesting idea for a game - the player controls an oh-so-80s 'Gigeresque' alien and has to explore a spaceship (divided into corridors, ventilation ducts and platformer-style rooms) looking for pods to save their near-extinct race. Having the player control the sort of critter they'd usually be fighting-off with heavy weapons (the advertising alluded to this), complete with acid spit and ability to snack on "technicians" to replenish energy, was novel but the game didn't really come together all that well. It had the common 8-bit problem of many enemies being too difficult to avoid, the colour clash was horrendous, and play was frequently more frustrating than fun.

The story and setting of this game are quite interesting - you, as the last member of a dying race, must activate the incubators scattered around a vast spaceship (142 locations!). The place is populated by hostile creatures, against which you only have an acid spit and your jumps as a defense.

The game is competently done on a purely technical level, with colorful and detailed graphics and an imaginative design of characters and locations. Unfortunately your task is very difficult - you only have one life, are often outnumbered and negotiating the different screens is often frustrating due to an intricate platform layout.

With more emphasis on playability, Survivor could have become a classic. As it is, it's not bad but it feels severely limited.

It's a colourful maze game in which you control what seems to be the renowned Alien giving the title to the famous Ridley Scott movie, you penetrate a spaceship and you must spit ten pods in the incubatoers scattered around, in order to secure the continuation of your species. You can move between different zones of the spaceship using "elevators" in which you are atomized or so, or - another reference to the movie - through vent ducts. There are lots of different enemies, very hard to avoid, and to replenish your energy you can gruesomely eat what seem to be babies walking around, but are described as "little engineers". Another cute animation is your end, a sequence where your head jumps off the rest of the body and bounces away. Very nice backgrounds but the transparent sprites really tend to mix with them confusingly. It's not bad, but the gameplay is not so irresistible.
3/5