"But still no one seemed to mention one title in particular which was, to me, a clear inspiration for the gameplay: Pac-Man. "I've read many reviews of the game," lead developer Luca Galante told us a few months back. It was tiny then! It's grown so fast! Yet it's still only £2.09/€2.39/$2.99 on Steam (and available on Game Pass, albeit updated a bit later). Hard to believe it was five months ago that the game had only two levels. In our Vampire Survivors early access review back in January, Matt Cox called it "an unquestionably compulsive treat". The makers are also working to bring it to a new game engine to help avoid the inevitable endgame framerate death-though if you ask me, building a run good enough to make the game start chugging is the real victory condition. Given how many surprises and secrets Vampire Survivors slips in, I do expect it to add more. Though it may look like a top-down bullet hell shoot-’em-up, the core concept isn’t. Still in early access, and technically first released in the twilight of last year, Vampire Survivors is a Castlevania-inspired survival game. Looking at the content roadmap in the patch notes, all that's left before v1.0 is two more weapons, one more Challenge level, and five more Arcana perk cards. That’s no longer the case in the wake of a recent update, which adds a new version of the game’s final stage.
And apparently the update snuck in yet another secret character. It gives the option to keep levelling up weapons past their limit, which I imagine grows ridiculous? I'll have to play with that and see. Once you beat the boss, the stage does return to normal.īeating that boss unlocks a fancy new relic: the Great Gospel. Vampire Survivors Developer Poncle has outlined its initial patch notes for Vampire Survivors update 0.8.0, which is currently scheduled to release on July 7. I'll leave it a surprise but will say yeah, it was pretty fun, though I had inadvertently ended up with a low-damage, high-survivability build so it took ages and got a bit boring.
To learn how to unlock MissingNo in Vampire Survivors see our guide below.
This 9th character is Death itself and is called MissingNo. One of the more interesting secrets that has been recently discovered is a 9th character. The most dramatic edition is a new version of stage 5, Cappella Magna, with a full-on boss battle. The Reddit Vampire Survivors community has been hard at work uncovering the different secrets in the game. Patch 0.8.0 launched on Steam Thursday afternoon, though it isn't yet live on the Game Pass/Microsoft Store verison (following "very shortly," a press release said).