Vice Grill: Synthwave Survival

Vice Grill: Synthwave Survival is a top-down shooter set in a neon-lit, retro-futuristic landscape with cyan and purple hues. You fight hordes of mutants with dual pistols and electric melee attacks, while gathering resources, crafting and trying to survive.

Fight and manage enemy waves

Enemy waves can be toggled, halted early or allowed to proceed naturally, so you can choose whether to focus on combat or on gathering and crafting. As you progress through the waves, the duration and intensity of enemy spawns adapt. Dynamic jobs include collecting items and hunting mutants, with challenges and rewards that increase as you advance.

Gather and craft

You scavenge Junk Piles for Steel to repair turrets and Wood to craft shipments, and harvest Wild Crops for food. The crops include Avocato, Berrato, Carotato, Pineapplanto and Spinachberry. At the Processing Station, you refine raw ingredients into processed variants of each crop type, then take them to the Campfire to prepare meals. To fill an order, you combine Wood with five dishes of the type requested by the Shipment Station; completing it earns a significant payout of Screws, the in-game currency.

You can also use the Water Pump in a mini-game to collect Purified Water by repeatedly entering a randomized sequence of WASD keys. Selling the water earns Screws. If you die in battle, you lose all your Screws.

Improve your defenses

You can upgrade turret fire rates, projectile speeds and durability to repel mutant attacks. Survivalist upgrades improve your HP, SP and Movement Speed. The game also features a synthwave soundtrack by Karl Casey.