Vampire Survivors developer Poncle simply introduced a brand new recreation, Vampire Crawlers, and it emerged after the studio tinkered round with a number of completely different concepts.
Poncle’s Luca Galante advised GameSpot that making Vampire Crawlers, a deckbuilding recreation, was not the crew’s first selection for a follow-up to Vampire Survivors. “We truly began off with a set of 5 completely different tasks. We labored with a number of indie groups, experimenting just a little bit, and what occurred is solely that Vampire Crawlers was the sport that instantly jumped out at us,” he defined.
“From the preliminary prototype, the crew simply nailed it. It was nice instantly. They instantly understood the thought, the idea, and so that is the one which progressed. It wasn’t some type of strategic determination; it is simply the one which naturally, organically went quicker than some other.”
Poncle had quite a few different concepts, too. The concepts have been “actually everywhere,” Galante stated. “Positively not a soccer recreation or one thing like that, however I am an enormous fan of RPGs, so there have been truly, a pair truly completely different RPGs within the works,” he defined.
He went on to say that individuals who have performed Vampire Survivors may even see clues to a number of the concepts that Poncle was serious about. “When you assume you’ve got seen a reference [to] a selected recreation in Vampire Survivors, there is a fairly good probability that I am engaged on a spin-off of the style of that recreation,” he stated.
Galante went on to say {that a} metroidvania recreation could be a “good match” for the studio, including that this could “make a lot sense” and even “an excessive amount of sense.”
“If we have been to do one thing like that–which I might like to do one thing like that, by the way–but if I have been to do it, I might simply go to Konami and ask for permission to make use of Castlevania at that stage. It simply makes an excessive amount of sense,” he stated. “That or, truthfully, if I have been to do a metroidvania, I might most likely do one with the Legacy of the Moonspell characters and setting. Or Tides of the Foscari. I might attempt to transfer just a little bit away from Vampire Survivors.”
For extra, take a look at GameSpot’s full interview with Galante and our hands-on preview of Vampire Crawlers.
Vampire Crawlers is about to launch on Xbox Sequence X|S, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Change, PC, and cellular in 2026. Poncle additionally confirmed that the sport can be coming to Xbox Sport Go day one.