Developer Poncle is following up its brilliantly compelling bullet heaven game Vampire Survivors with something slightly different, but it looks no less addictive.
Vampire Crawlers, announced earlier this year, is a dungeon-crawling, deck-building spin on the original, and in this new gameplay trailer, it looks like it has just as much to hook players in:
Set within the same world and featuring many of the same characters, enemies, and items, Vampire Crawlers changes to a first-person perspective and has you exploring big environments step by step.
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You'll of course encounter many enemies on your journey, engaging a turn-based battle in which you'll use your collected cards to defeat them.
These cards are familiar things like the Whip, Armour, and King Bible, each one detailing what it does and how much mana it costs to play.
Of course, as you go through a run, you'll be able to level up, increase your stats, and upgrade and evolve your cards, making yourself much more powerful as you fight more and deadlier baddies.
It looks like it's going to be as much of a dopamine rush as Vampire Survivors, and we're totally down when it comes to PS5 in 2026.
What are your thoughts on Vampire Crawlers? Tell us in the comments section below.
[source youtube.com, via nintendolife.com]
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First I'm hearing of this, but hell yes, day 1 for me. And the Warhammer 40k Survivors-style spin off if that comes to PlayStation consoles at some point too.
Cannot wait to lose all my time to VC!
If people haven’t tried it: Ball x Pit.
Awesome time sink.
It should do a vampire survivors crossover
@AndyKazama It probably will since Ball x Pitt has more content planned for next year. If not, you are right: they should.
@AndyKazama I've been playing that. Like Vampire Survivors I found the first few rounds quite entertaining but it soon became very repetitive and grindy.
Could this be the Hearthstone killer I've been waiting for? fingers crossed!
This looks amazing.
It looks like Elder Scrolls: Arena or Might&Magic. 😀
@AndyKazama love some ball x pit. Except the auto characters. I cant bring myself to just sit and watch for 15 minutes.
@Andee How far did you play BallXPit? I agree, the first few rounds were repetitive, but once you get down the pit a few levels and unlock some of the more game-changing buildings, it goes totally bonkers. However, I wouldn't call it grindy at all: it had that very satisfying loop where everything you do in the pit gives you something to enhance your base, and everything you do in the base makes your next run more powerful.
@Nyne11Tyme I agree, but they redeemed themselves (to an extent) in my eyes by showing me some of the better synergies and ball evolutions that I hadn't thought to try yet.
Inject this into my veins!
@StrickenBiged I'm on the fourth level and have two characters — I don't think i've quite fully got a handle on the base-building aspect yet and the best way to lay it out
@Andee Don't over-stress on the base building, you won't have enough gold to dig out the whole area until the late game anyway, and you can't really optimise the layout until you've maximised the space. The layout can be changed whenever you want too.
A good early game setup though is to try and box in your resources with other buildings so that your characters are repeatedly bounced over them whenever you farm, which should maximise yields. If you're ever stuck for what to build, you can't go wrong with more economy/resource buildings.
@StrickenBiged yeah i did this very thing yesterday! — was just getting a bit unsure of where to stack buildings — I might just sell everything and start over
@Andee Don't sell anything unless it's literally impossible to reposition them while you rearrange them. As you can rearrange buildings freely, you shouldn't need to sell up!
First person games make me dizzy, so it's an easy pass despite how much I love Vampire Survivors.
@Nyne11Tyme I watched YouTube while the auto character did the work. Also helped me complete all levels with all characters for the plat.
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