Vampire Survivors Is Getting a Spin-Off, And It's Totally Not a Roguelike Deckbuilder (It Is)

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Vampire Survivors is getting a spin-off. It's called Vampire Crawlers, and it's a first-person, roguelike, platform builder dungeon crawler that has each the addictive dependable effects and visuals of Vampire Survivors.

In an Xbox Wire station pursuing the announcement, developer poncle offered much accusation astir what to expect. Vampire Crawlers takes spot successful the aforesaid satellite arsenic Vampire Survivors with the aforesaid characters, items, and seemingly adjacent in-jokes. However, it's a wholly caller genre and perspective. You'll prime a crawler - a returning Vampire Survivors quality - and with them research dungeons, physique your platform of attacks and utilities, and conflict enemies utilizing your cards. There's adjacent a paper customization mechanic that wil lchange however you play your cards.

Poncle is wide that this is simply a spin-off, not a sequel, and "hopefully the archetypal successful a bid of spin-offs". He adds that helium is moving connected something regarding a sequel, but isn't capable to speech astir it yet.

Vampire Crawlers is retired successful 2026 for Xbox Series, PC, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch.

Vampire Survivors, meanwhile, is great. It released seemingly retired of obscurity into aboriginal entree successful December of 2021, and a fewer months aboriginal was a immense hit. It made waves for its simplicity yet addictive nature, arsenic good arsenic its cheeky wit and riffs connected Castlevania despite, gameplay-wise, being thing similar Castlevania. In our 8/10 review, we said it's "outwardly elemental but turns retired to beryllium an incredibly heavy spread to autumn down – though it's not without extended dull periods erstwhile you get up of its curve."

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