Pocket Gamer: As idiotic as it sounds, there’s something thrilling about risking life and limb.
The prospect of cheating death is arguably one of the most exciting pastimes around - it’s one of the main reasons that Lewis Hamilton straps himself into a Formula One racing car on a regular basis (the others being the ability to snog members of the Pussycat Dolls and earn preposterous sums of money).
Pocket Gamer: If Stay Alive is anything to go by, being dead is an exhausting business.
Thanks to the near constant onslaught of zombie games, the dream of taking a well-deserved after-death dirt nap has been replaced by the gnawing certainty that our rotting corpses will be forced to aimlessly
Touch Arcade: In the crowded genre of endless games, developers need to do more than ever to distinguish themselves. Some attempt to do it via heightened visuals and presentation while others do it by modifying core gameplay elements to try and differentiate themselves from the pack. Stay Alive [$0.99] falls more in the latter category, with the endless arcade shooter making some changes to what is otherwise a standard leaderboard oriented endless game. While these changes are interesting (and possibly controversial), Stay Alive doesn’t particularly separate itself from the pack as much as it may like.
