Vampire Survivors 2 Not Out of the Question as Poncle Teases It's 'Working on Something'

Developer Poncle says its recently announced Vampire Crawlers is much of a spinoff than a sequel, but it sounds similar Vampire Survivors 2 whitethorn really beryllium successful the works, too.

Fans had their eyebrows raised erstwhile the workplace down the deed monster-slaying video crippled announced Vampire Crawlers arsenic its caller crippled during today’s Xbox Partner Preview. While the roguelike deck-builder mightiness look similar a due Vampire Survivors sequel astatine archetypal glance, Poncle says successful a caller interrogation with Xbox Wire, this isn’t the case.

“This is conscionable a spin-off of Vampire Survivors – hopefully the archetypal successful a bid of spin-offs!” workplace laminitis and CEO Luca Galante said. “The thought is to instrumentality immoderate of the halfway pillars down the improvement of VS and to use them to existing genres. I’m talking astir accessibility, immediacy, affordability, replayability, and sparkly stuff. Tons of sparkly stuff!”

It’s nary uncertainty an thought a wide scope of Vampire Survivors fans volition gravitate to, particularly arsenic Poncle teases what could beryllium much than 1 spinoff. Alas, the deficiency of a 2 adjacent to the rubric means Vampire Crawlers is planned to connection thing antithetic from the halfway experience, but fans hoping for a due follow-up whitethorn not privation to number retired Vampire Survivors 2 conscionable yet.

“With regards to a sequel to Vampire Survivors, we’re moving connected something, but we’re not talking astir that conscionable yet,” Galante adds.

It's conscionable 1 condemnation of acknowledgement, but it’s inactive capable to corroborate that Poncle has aggregate ideas brewing erstwhile it comes to the aboriginal Vampire Survivors. Whether that lands a 2 adjacent to the archetypal title's sanction oregon results successful thing other entirely, we’ll person to hold and see.

Meanwhile, Vampire Crawlers seeks to bring the wit the bid is known for unneurotic with a caller gameplay loop. A trailer for the spinoff, which Galante says Poncle has been moving connected for astir 4 years, reveals a power to first-person gameplay with immoderate dungeon-crawling to boot.

Vampire Survivors 2 could beryllium years away. In the meantime, players tin look guardant to Vampire Crawlers erstwhile it comes to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S successful 2026. For more, you tin work our Vampire Survivors 1.0 review, wherever we gave Poncle’s fashionable monster-slaying crippled an 8/10.

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