Lonely Survivor - Epic battles & upgrades

Lonely Survivor presents gamers with an exhilarating adventure roguelike experience. Players have the opportunity to continuously vanquish enemies, enhance their skills, and take down the fearsome enemy army. Are you prepared for the onslaught of enemy waves and ready to engage in heroic battles? Keep gathering EXP and gold from fallen foes to boost your combat prowess. Strengthen your abilities by upgrading equipment and talents to craft your own winning strategy.

Key features of the game include:

1.Easy one-finger controls for endless harvesting enjoyment.

2.Randomly assigned skills allowing for diverse strategic decisions.

3.Navigate through a variety of stage maps filled with both minions and bosses—will you dare to confront these challenges?

4.Execute unstoppable skill combos, progressively enhancing your resilience against adversity.

5.Discover supply treasure chests containing potions to fortify your HP.

6.Immerse yourself in the 3D realistic animation, offering a visually stunning gaming experience.

Gameplay Basics

Things can get -really- crazy in Lonely Survivor, so knowing and mastering your basics is essential.

Quick Tips:

Your character automatically attacks with each weapon she has equipped.

Collect experience crystals dropped by mobs to level up and gain new weapons and passive buffs. You can have six of each for a total of twelve. You cannot drop a weapon or buff you’ve already chosen.

As this is a mobbing game, AOE weapons are an excellent choice for both mowing through mobs and creating safe spaces.

Almost every weapon synergizes with a passive buff to create a weapon evolution. Evolved weapons are incredibly strong compared to their base forms, but you can only evolve a weapon via a chest drop from a boss or miniboss.

The only thing you can control is your movement. Move with purpose – either circle around mobs to group them up for easier kills or actively hunt down barrels for health and gold. Above all, keep moving.

Position your movement finger away from the middle of the screen. I prefer the lower right.

Know what each pickup does. One viable strategy is to keep pickups close by and just circle the general area so you can get the pickup when you need it.

All events in a stage happen on a timer. You can refer to the bar at the bottom of the screen to see when big waves and boss waves will occur. If you need more help, I’ve included a list of events in the first stage.

Fighting

In case you haven’t guessed it yet, your objective is to survive until the end of the timer – 15 minutes in most stages. Fortunately for us, our witch is more than capable of fending for herself. She’ll automatically attack enemies within range with the weapons you provide her. Easy, right?

Not if you have to deal with literal hundreds or thousands of mobs on screen at once, it’s not!

Combat is the heart and soul of Lonely Survivor, and learning how to get stronger in each stage will save you from a quick and humiliating defeat within the first minute of the game.

The primary way of getting stronger is by defeating enemies and collecting their experience crystals. Each crystal fills up the bar at the top of the screen, and when that fills up, you gain a new level – which means a choice between three random items, which can be new items or upgrades to ones you already have. Note that you can only carry six items and six passive buffs and cannot drop them once you’ve chosen.

Death will have to wait a bit longer.

The tougher a foe, the better the experience crystal it drops. Easy foes drop blue crystals, intermediate ones drop green crystals, and tough foes drop yellow crystals. Because of how many mobs the game has, it’s advantageous to prioritize getting and strengthening an AOE weapon. A bigger attack area plus big damage equals tons of experience points.

Weapon Evolution

Are level 6 weapons not cutting it? Don’t worry – that’s where weapon evolution comes in.

Stronger!

Each weapon can be combined with a specific passive buff to ascend it to a whole new level. These evolved levels are leagues and bounds more powerful than their base form while generally retaining the same use case. Always try to evolve at least one weapon as quickly as possible. It’ll make your life that much easier.

These reminders appear in the level up screen, but it pays to memorize what goes with what.

Note that to evolve a weapon, it must be level 6. You also do not need to maximize the level of the passive buff; only the weapon needs to be at level 6. Most evolved weapons can also no longer be leveled up.

Movement

The only thing you can control in real-time in Lonely Survivor is your character’s movement, so it’s important to master it.

Step lively, now.

I always advocate moving around in games like Lonely Survivor. Movement is vital not only to stay alive but also for grouping up mobs and finding valuable pickups. Staying still can also make you complacent and can lead to you falling prey to the next mob ambush.

Your movement options are largely dependent on what weapons you have and how fast you can kill. Got a high damage single target weapon? Focus on one direction so you always have a straight path to traverse. Great AOE damage? Create safe zones and slowly move around within your field of death. But above all, keep moving until you can’t.

Pickups

One reason movement is so important is that pickups won’t spawn unless you actively go looking for barrels and break them. These pickups not only contain valuable gold that you can use for permanent (yes, I said permanent) upgrades but also provide tools that can make or break a stage. It’s a good idea to look for these early in a stage as you’ll have a very hard time moving around once the final hordes come in.

I wanted more experience, but sure, whatever.

The most basic pickup is gold. As mentioned earlier, gold is used to pay for permanent upgrades when you’re out of a stage. Pick up gold whenever it appears as there’s no point keeping it for later.

All mine!

The magnet is an incredible tool that pulls most, if not all experience crystals on the map to you. This pickup is invaluable if you’re boxed in by a horde and need those sweet, sweet levels. And even if you’re not in dire straits, the magnet is super convenient!

Getting a picture of a rare pickup in a chaotic game like this? Good luck.

The Jack-O-Lantern is a powerful pickup that instantly kills all enemies on screen. This is a potent tool that can potentially save you from a wipe and give you a few more seconds of breathing room, as well as time to come up with a new plan. However, there’s a cost – enemies killed by the Jack-O-Lantern do not drop experience crystals.

Not a lame power.

Finally, the heart restores health. There are very few opportunities to heal yourself outside of picking up hearts, so it’s a good idea to have a few ready!

One tactic I use in games like Lonely Survivor is camping near a high-value pickup, such as a screen clear. This gives me the benefit of being able to farm mobs by moving around but also having an emergency button nearby.

Permanent Upgrades

After you’ve died cleared your first stage, it’s time to get some permanent upgrades.

Quick Tips:

Spend gold to buy permanent upgrades for your character via the talent tree. You’ll also need Strength Crystals from stage bosses as a one-time drop. Talents are gated by your account level.

Your character can equip items to get stronger. All of them give stats, but the weapon also determines your starting weapon in a level.

The only way to get more gear is by rolling in the gacha. You can watch an ad, use rare keys, or pay Diamonds to open chests.

Gear can be merged to increase its quality. Three identical items of similar quality = 1 of higher quality.

Unlock new heroes by collecting 50 shards either via the cash shop or as rare drops.

Heroes can be leveled up and ascended by spending gold, hero exp (item), and more shards. More levels mean better base stats, while ascensions unlock passive boosts.

The Talent Tree

All the gold you’ve been picking up in stages has to go somewhere. That’s where the talent tree comes in.

Slowly but surely.

The talent tree is a sequential series of minor (but important) upgrades that just about covers every basic aspect you can think of; more attack, faster move speed, greater HP, and increased defense are all available. The talent tree also has a separate tree on the right side, which requires Strength Crystals to traverse. These crystals are one-time prizes earned from completing stages and bring better stuff to the table such as being able to reroll level up rewards.

Do note that you can only buy talents up to your account level.

Equipment

Yes, your characters have permanent equipment. Surprise!

Better than nothing.

Characters have five equipment slots: one for a weapon, one for a shield, two for body slots (no, I don’t know why), and one for footwear. Each of these pieces of gear can be further upgraded by paying both gold and Equipment Scrolls, which drop from clearing a stage and are thankfully not one-time drops. While each of these pieces of equipment provides stats, the weapon is particularly important as it determines what weapon you start with in a level.

However, getting gear isn’t as simple as clearing stages. There are only two ways to get more gear, as of writing – either get lucky and buy anything that appears in the daily shop or roll in the gacha.

Of course.

There are three ways to open these chests – watch an ad, open them with a (rare) key, or straight-up pay in Diamonds. At least there’s a pity system. That said, do be sure to at least grab your free rolls when they’re off cooldown. It’s 20 hours for the Normal Treasure Chest and 48 hours for the Epic Treasure Chest.

Put three garbage shuriken together and what do you get? A slightly less crappy shuriken.

Each piece of gear can also be merged with similar items to increase its quality, which in turn not only gives that item a higher level cap and better stats, but also unlocks its passive quality boosts. You’ll need three of the same item and of the same quality to get a single higher quality version of that item.

Heroes

Ruby isn’t the only playable character.

This ain’t Digimon.

By collecting hero shards (mostly by buying them from the cash shop, though I also read they are available as very rare drops), you can fuse 50 of them to create a new hero that’s better suited to your playstyle. Good luck amassing 50, though.

I heard you like levels, so we put levels in your levels.

On top of unlocking heroes, you can also increase their levels to give them higher base stats and ascend them to unlock passive skills including ones that affect all heroes. Regular levels require both gold and the hero exp item – which looks like a tin can – to differentiate it from experience crystals. Ascension on the other hand requires shards. I hope you had extras lying around!

Embark on this solitary survival journey. Dive into this innovative roguelike gaming encounter, activating infinite firepower mode to immerse yourself fully. Keep a close eye on your HP gauge and seize the right moment to uncover treasure chests that may hold unexpected surprises. 

Remember, if you falter, you must begin anew. Embrace your frustration and grow braver with each setback. Why delay any longer? Embark on this thrilling adventure alongside the fearless mage—download Lonely Survivor now!