PokéSurvivor

PokeSurvivor: A Pokemon Bullet-Heaven in Your Browser

PokeSurvivor takes the Vampire Survivors formula and fills it with Pokemon. You do not press an attack button at all - you steer your partner around the arena while it fires its active move automatically, and everything else is positioning, build-craft and nerve as the hordes thicken. It is an ambitious fan project (built by solo developer JPTER78, with sprites from the PMD SpriteCollab and data from PokeAPI) and unofficial, non-profit fan work - and it plays surprisingly deep for a browser tab.

The Core Loop

Defeated Pokemon drop experience, and every level-up offers a choice of three cards - new moves or upgrades - with one free reroll per run. Your partner holds four moves at once and you swap the active one on the fly, which matters enormously because the type chart works both ways: super-effective hits deal 1.6 times damage while resisted ones drop to 0.6, and weather shifts the math further (rain buffs Water and dampens Fire, snow empowers Ice). Push a move to level five and take its upgrade card and it evolves into something stronger - dozens of moves have golden evolved forms waiting.

Where It Goes Wild

• Rifts: timed portals into typed legendary arenas - dozens of legendaries across eighteen arenas, each a two-minute fight for coins, tickets and bonds that fuse moves to fire together.
• Run events: treasure thieves to chase, lost Pokemon to escort, golden-hour XP bursts, and swarm waves every forty-five seconds.
• The endgame wall: at the thirty-minute mark the Judgment of Arceus begins - an unwinnable pursuit that adds a stronger legendary every five seconds. Nobody survives it; the question is how long you last.
• Meta progression: a Mystery Dungeon-style quiz picks your starter, coins buy per-Pokemon permanent upgrades, and a ticket-only gacha (with a pity system) collects a roster that stretches toward the full Pokedex - shinies included.

Tips for Longer Runs

Never leave a zero-damage move like Harden selected - your partner simply stops fighting. Kite swarms in wide circles so they string out behind you, drag pursuers through lava, and put trees and walls between you and projectile enemies. Get one move to its evolved form early; a single golden card transforms a run. And treat the type chart as your steering wheel - swapping moves to counter whatever is in front of you is worth more than any single upgrade.

Controls and a Few Honest Notes

WASD or arrows to move, 1-4 to pick the active move, number keys for level-up cards, R to reroll - and on phones it plays landscape with drag-to-move and tap-to-switch. Up to four players can co-op with shared XP and buddy revives. As a fan game it is naturally tribute rather than official Nintendo product - but as a free browser survivors-like it is one of the most complete packages on Parasprunki.

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