Vampire Survivors is our favourite roguelike of the year 🏆 poncle_vampire
What if Castlevania was a slot machine that never stopped spitting out jackpots?
In my first couple hours of playing, I completed 42 achievements and killed 100,000 enemies. Sometimes a good video game is just a series of flashing colors and numbers, you dig? I don't know if we're ready for the endless horde of clones this game is going to inspire in 2023 . We're watching a genre form in realtime, just as Slay the Spire did for deckbuilders after 2018.The funny thing about Vampire Survivors is that, despite the Castlevania-esque trappings, what it really is is an action-RPG crunched down to its barest essentials. It's like taking a Diablo 3 character from level 1 all the way to the farthest edge of the endgame in 20 minutes.
It really comes into its own on Steam Deck, though. It's wild that I spent more than £500 on this thing, only to play a hideous game I bought for a few quid, but here we are. I have no regrets. If you've got a Steam Deck, you need to get this game. Vampire Survivors is a game I should've hated. None of it is my usual cup of tea, and yet I can't stop drinking.
I don't think it's a better game than the aforementioned Dead Cells or Spelunky—roguelikes I love despite the pain they've put me through. But it is a different take on the genre, and I'm glad it exists as a more low-stakes alternative. Unlike Robin, though, I'm less excited about the inevitability of this becoming a new subgenre. Vampire Survivors fills a niche, but I don't need to see it iterated upon ad nauseam.
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