Vampire Survivors is formally come to PlayStation platforms. Introduced throughout at the moment’s Triple-I Initiative showcase, Vampire Survivors’ devs confirmed that the wildly common roguelite shall be releasing this summer season. It was beforehand launched on PC, Swap, cell, and Xbox.
Moreover, new Vampire Survivors DLC was revealed, this time that includes characters from Contra. They embody Brad Fang from Contra: Exhausting Corps, better-known because the wolf with the gun grafted to his arm. The brand new DLC shall be out Might 9.
Initially launched in 2022, Vampire Survivors was first launched on Mac and Home windows, with the latter turning into the most-played Steam Deck sport in August and September 2022. Ultimately, Vampire Survivors developer and writer Luca “Poncle” Galante would port the mission onto Xbox, cell gadgets, and the Nintendo Swap in 2022 and 2023, respectively.
As well as to numerous ports launched over the past two years since its preliminary launch, the event staff has stayed busy offering new content material to hold gamers coming again for extra. In December 2022, the event staff introduced Legacy of the Moonspell, the primary main DLC growth for Vampire Survivors, with a second DLC launched in April 2023 subtitled Tides of the Foscari.
In our evaluate of Vampire Survivors 1.0, IGN wrote: “Want a sport to play whereas listening to podcasts? That is it. Vampire Survivors is outwardly easy however seems to be an extremely deep gap to fall down – although it is not with out prolonged boring intervals whenever you get forward of its curve.’
Past its achievements in its authentic medium, almost a yr in the past, Story Kitchen introduced that it was teaming up with Poncle to adapt Vampire Survivors into an animated TV collection. Whereas not a lot has been shared past the official announcement, each events are aiming to flip the indie sport darling into “a premium, animated tv collection.”
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