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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 1d

This will be our focus once we're done with the Steam release, and if we're able to add them for Xbox we will share an update about it 😄

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget to wishlist the game on Steam so you won't miss it on the release day!

store.steampowered.com/app/3997630/...

Spartan Survivors on Steam

Fight hordes of Covenant & Flood in this new game mixing Roguelite & Bullet Heaven for hours of mindless fun!

store.steampowered.com

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 1d

These are all the medals & achievements you'll be able to unlock on October 22nd ✨

Hopefully there's enough challenge for you to play the game again and again 🔥

Picture listing all the achievements which can be unlocked on Steam playing the game Spartan Survivors.

There are 25 achievements listed as:

THANKS BATHROBE
Launch the game for the first time

I NEED A WEAPON
Pick up your first weapon

WERE IT SO EASY...
Pick up your first perk

YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE THIS GEAR IS SON?
Acquire your first upgrade

I THOUGHT YOU WERE STRONGER
Eliminate 343 Guilty Spark

ROOKIE
Finish all the levels on "Easy"

SPARTAN
Finish all the levels on "Heroic

SOLDIER
Finish all the levels on "Normal"

LEGEND
Finish all the levels on "Legend"

MYTH
Finish all the levels on "Mythic"

HAVE FUN!
Unlock "Custom Game"

NOT BAD
Finish any level at 150% Game Speed

IMPRESSIVE
Finish any level at 200% Game Speed

HAIL TO THE KING!
Finish any level at 300% Game Speed

FORERUNNER
Reach the highest rank in "Career"

DEMON
Finish "The Maw" on Legendary at 300% Game Speed

RECLAIMER
Level up 5 weapons & 5 perks to their maximum in a single run

APEX PREDATOR INCOMING
Eliminate 100 000 enemies

OOHRAH!
Finish a level only using human weapons

BLOODBATH
Eliminate 1 000 000 enemies

WORT WORT WORT
Finish a level only using alien weapons

OH THAT'S HOW YOU SURVIVED
Finish the level "Guilty Spark" with Johnson

BRAWLER
Eliminate an opponent with a melee

SURVIVOR
Finish a level on Heroic difficulty with only 1 weapon

THE GREAT JOURNEY
Finish all the levels on all the difficulties

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 3d

Add Spartan Survivors to your wishlist now ⬇️

store.steampowered.com/app/3997630/...

Spartan Survivors on Steam

Fight hordes of Covenant & Flood in this new game mixing Roguelite & Bullet Heaven for hours of mindless fun!

store.steampowered.com

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 3d

Share your might with the Community ✨

At the end of each run, you'll be able to download a Stats Card displaying your score, rank & loadout used and share it online with the Community to show how great you did!

Coming day one with the Steam release on October 22th 🔥

Showcase for the new Stats card generated at the end of each run of Spartan Survivors.

The card display the following information:
- Level beaten
- Difficulty of the run
- Gamertag
- Current career rank
- Score for the run
- Summary of the stats for the run, such as the number of elimination, the duration of the run and the progression level reached
- The weapons & perks used for the run

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 15d

The community has spoken and Sierra it is!

Since some of you really liked the purple one, we tried to find a good excuse to still use it… and ended up adding 2 new achievements to the game.

Guess it’s a win-win situation ✨

Picture showing 3 medals for 3 different achievements on Steam, the first one is called the Great Journey and reads "Finish all the levels on all the difficulty settings", the second one is called Wort Wort Wort and reads "Finish a level only using alien weapons, and the third one is called Oohrah! and reads "Finish a level only using human weapons".

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 16d

We have one achievement called "The Great Journey" we're struggling to decide which illustration we should go with...

So tell us which one you prefer and you'll have the final word on this decision!

Picture showing two medals, one on the left called ZETA is purple with some blue ribbon while the second one called SIERRA is more metallic and showcase a ring structure seen from the inside loop.

The text on top read "The Great Journey - Steam achievement" while the bottom text reds "Vote for the illustration"

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 18d

Wishlist now Spartan Survivors on Steam 🔥

store.steampowered.com/app/3997630/...

Spartan Survivors on Steam

Fight hordes of Covenant & Flood in this new game mixing Roguelite & Bullet Heaven for hours of mindless fun!

store.steampowered.com

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 18d

Steam release obviously means Achievements to unlock!

Here's a tiny preview of some challenges you'll be able face, and those are only the easy ones ✨

If we achieve 5 000 wishlists, we might even add more of these shiny medals for you to unlock, so... You know what to do!

Picture showing a tiny preview of the upcoming Steam achievements for the game Spartan Survivors.

It lists 6 achievements among many others, listed as follow:

Legend: Finish all levels on Legendary
I thought you were stronger: Eliminate 343 Guilty Spark
Apex Predator Incoming: Eliminate 100 000 enemies
Bloodbath: Eliminate 1 000 000 enemies
Hail to the King!: Finish any level at 300% Game Speed
Oh that's how you survived: Finish "Guilty Spark" playing Johnson

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 19d

Working on a last minute feature for all the ones who love to show off their might ✨

Shoutout to anyone who's able to figure it out with just this CSS snippet

CSS code snippet displaying the following:

{
box-sizing: content-box;
min-height: 60px important;
display: flex;
flex-direction: row;
justify-content: center; align-items: center;
column-gap: var (--spacer-xl);
& > div {
display: flex;
flex-direction: row; flex-grow: 1;
background-color: gba (var (--accent-primary), 0.7);
margin: 0 var(--spacer-xxl) 0 var(--spacer-xxl) ;
}
& > inth-child (2) {
justify-content: end;
column-gap: var (--spacer-xl);
}
}

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 25d

➡️ Wishlist Spartan Survivors on Steam now!

Releasing officially in October 2025 ✨

store.steampowered.com/app/3997630/...

Spartan Survivors on Steam

Fight hordes of Covenant & Flood in this new game mixing Roguelite & Bullet Heaven for hours of mindless fun!

store.steampowered.com

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 25d

What's fun is that despite the Steam version coming up and our previously available build being months old, we still have players playing Spartan Survivors as we write.

We hope the new content we added will give you even more excuse to play it again and again ❤️

Dashboard showing several stats for the game Spartan Survivors, as the number of concurrent unique players at the moment, the number of game's start and the average duration of a session in minutes.

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 27d

➡️ Wishlist Spartan Survivors now on Steam

store.steampowered.com/app/3997630/...

Spartan Survivors on Steam

Fight hordes of Covenant & Flood in this new game mixing Roguelite & Bullet Heaven for hours of mindless fun!

store.steampowered.com

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 27d

Close to 3 000 wishlists in less than 24 hours... This is much much more than we could have anticipated...

What could we say... Thanks for showing up, you're all awesome 🔥

Picture showing the Spartan soldier from the game Spartan Survivors in low res with a old screen effect with the text 3000 wishlist additions in less than 24 hours and the badge "Wishlist now on Steam".

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 28d

➡️ Wishlist Spartan Survivors now on Steam

store.steampowered.com/app/3997630/...

Spartan Survivors on Steam

Fight hordes of Covenant & Flood in this new game mixing Roguelite & Bullet Heaven for hours of mindless fun!

store.steampowered.com

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · 28d

BREAKING: You can now wishlist Spartan Survivors on Steam!

➡️ We're locked & loaded for an October 2025 release

In the coming weeks, we'll be sharing all the new content & additions we've made to the game so it's worth your time even if you've already played it.

Thank you all for your support ❤️

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Aug 18

We want to thank you all for your continued support, positive feedback & patience.

We know it took longer than expected, we hoped to be done with the release by the end of July but this is also the reality of game development from a 2 persons team working on their free time during the Summer 🫂

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Aug 18

We're currently in the Steam Verification Process ✨

It can take a few weeks to be done, which is unfortunately out of our control at this point.

As soon as it's validated, we will share the Steam page so you can wishlist it (Xbox will follow) 🙏

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Aug 7

Don't mind us, just adding new units to the game and having a good laugh at our incredible art skills ✨

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Aug 4

@spacecast.bsky.social Love your Battle Rifle pixel art! 🙌

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Aug 4

Currently having SO MUCH FUN creating and play testing the different bosses we're adding to the game, especially on Heroic at 150% Speed Game 💥

Can't wait to release our next update and get your feedback ✨

Gameplay from Spartan Survivors showing a top down view with the main character at the center of the screen fighting several smaller enemies and two bosses moving toward the playable characters.

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JumperScape Media @jumperscape.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today on The Library: Halo Lorecast we were joined by @bathrobe.news from @spartansurvivors.bsky.social to talk about the Halo fan game space, as well as their amazing accomplishment with their game!

Tune in, streaming everywhere you get your podcasts!

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Jul 27

In the coming weeks, we will share the new content and adjustment we've been making to the game so even players who already finished it can find new stuff to play with!

In the meantime, you can still download the game as it is with recent updates on Itchio: juanggz.itch.io/spartan-surv...

Spartan Survivors by JuanGGZ

Halo x Roguelite x Bullet Heaven

juanggz.itch.io

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Jul 27

Achievement unlocked: Spartan Survivors reached 10 000 unique downloads a few days ago! Thank you all for your support ❤️

We received so many positive feedback and are learning from them to add new content and challenges to the game.

Be sure to follow so you don't miss our upcoming Steam release!

Shiny polygonal medal with a diamond texture showing the number 10000 on a dark blue background.

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Spartan Survivors @spartansurvivors.bsky.social · Jul 23

Actually working on a sweet new feature for our next release, a tiny little one which should definitely be fun once you get your hands on it 🥊

Animation graph with curves from different keyframes linked together

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