Vampire Survivors is an action roguelike game developed and published by indie developer Poncle. The game was originally coded using HTML5 and was released on itch.io as a browser game for free on March 31, 2021. Nine months later, the game was released on Steam for Microsoft Windows under early access for $2.99 on December 17, 2021, then it had a price change to $4.99 on September 22, 2022, and shortly after, the 1.0 release of the game was out on October 20, 2022.
Premise[]
Mow thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you.
Gameplay[]
In Vampire Survivors the player selects one of the playable characters and enters a vast field, where the player's goal is to survive against waves of approaching enemies. At the start, the player only has a single weapon to fight back at the enemies. By killing enemies, the player gains experience and can level up, allowing them to obtain additional weapons and passive items or upgrade existing ones to help them survive the tougher foes yet to come.
In addition to enemies, destructible light sources also occasionally appear, dropping Gold Coins and other useful items that help the player fend off enemies. The collected Gold can be used for buying new characters and PowerUps to aid the player in their future attempts.