{"id":571585,"date":"2026-03-29T07:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571585\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T07:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T07:19:14","slug":"new-steam-release-turns-famous-dvd-screensaver-into-survival-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/571585\/","title":{"rendered":"New Steam Release Turns Famous DVD Screensaver Into Survival Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">If you\u2019ve ever wanted to relive the excitement of seeing a DVD screensaver bounce around your TV screen, this brand new game might be right up your alley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">DVD Survivors is a brand new game released on <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/steam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> where you play as this screensaver bouncing at each wall on the screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">You\u2019ve spent so much of your life staring at this screen while deciding what to watch. Only this time, developer Signal Spike Games has turned it into a fast-paced action survival game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cDVD Survivors is a bullet-heaven roguelike where you bounce off the edges of the screen, grab weapons, stack a build that probably shouldn&#8217;t work, and obliterate waves of digital garbage like pop-up ads, error windows, crypto miners, cookie banners, Clippo, and a whole lot worse,\u201d reads the blurb on DVD Survivors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cYou don&#8217;t have to worry about movement controls: the DVD Survivor goes where it wants. The DVD Survivor bounces on its own. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cYou build the run, trigger evolutions, stack synergies, exploit the corners, and use your attacks to survive 8 minutes of escalating screen-born nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YmMxODc2MTUyZmNkOWYwNy9ibHQzY2JkZDVk.webp\"\/>Signal Spike GamesDVD Survivors Is A Fresh Take On The Survivor-Like Formula<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">It essentially looks like the movie buff\u2019s take on Vampire Survivors, featuring fast-paced, quick action sequences played from a top-down point of view, with loads of different unlockables to discover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">According to Signal Spike Games, there are 62 weapons, 46 evolutions, and 24 synergies to unlock, all while fighting against 135+ enemies, 35+ bosses, and \u201cdigital trash everywhere\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">For fans of games with lots of depth to them, such as Vampire Survivors or The Binding of Isaac, it looks like a fun one to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">If you fancy picking it up, you can grab <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/4481810\/DVD_Survivors\/\">DVD Survivors<\/a> for \u00a33.77 at the moment, with the game having a launch discount of 12%. That\u2019s about the price of a cup of coffee, and it\u2019ll probably last longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you\u2019ve ever wanted to relive the excitement of seeing a DVD screensaver bounce around your TV screen,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,11221,268,11220,105],"class_list":["post-571585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-indie-games","tag-pc","tag-steam","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}