Vampire Survivors and other top-down arcade shooters (VS discussion now forbidden)

[Acrux]

I've been playing this for the past couple of days. Good, cheap fun. I've had more fun than I should for an 2.99 "early access" game, and the dev is planning on adding more play modes. The art design is heavily inspired by Castlevania.

 

[Falksi]

Christ alive, I wish this autistic obsession with having to see numbers everywhere would fucking stop dead. Can't people judge things anymore without having to have everything spelled out in front of them?

The game looks like Smash TV was bitten by a paraplegic accountant with vampire aids.

The only good, cheap fun here is your mom.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Aye, fun little game. They have to be getting a Konami/Nintendo lawsuit incoming though.

 

[Lizard]

Played a decent amount of this, the dev seems to understand that becoming overpowered is part of the fun judging from his patch notes. I'm probably gonna wait for a decent amount of updates before I dive back in though. I still haven't gotten around to playing SNKRX again, which was a similar out of nowhere cheap as chips arcadey fun game. Both of these will be great palette cleansers between slower games though.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Apparently they're redoing the game in another engine to combat the slowdown problems some people get in the last 5 minutes of a level.

 

[Lizard]

The only slow down I've really experienced was when death shows up, usually it hitches and I can't really react in time. Heard it was possible to kill him.

 

[Xelocix]

A vampire game where I can't play as an undead stripper and sleep with Jeanette Voerman? No thanks.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Can't go back to normal after hyper mode, although due to the quicker movement you max out a lot earlier, meaning the last 10 minutes is just waiting about for Death.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Heard it was possible to kill him.

Aye, need freeze ray and laurel, although once you kill him another one appears the next minute.

He got stuck on the furniture when I played and I kept attacking and after a minute another one appeard ans so on.
They all got stuck untill the fourth one appeard from behind and killed me at 33:02

 

[Humanity has risen!]

Aye, fun little game. They have to be getting a Konami/Nintendo lawsuit incoming though.

Really? They can trademark weapons like a knife, garlic and an axe? Or even a whip named Bloody Tear? I don't think so.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

The only slow down I've really experienced was when death shows up, usually it hitches and I can't really react in time.

Only hitching I've experienced is with the new update now that they've made the birds evolvable.

 

[Acrux]

Really? They can trademark weapons like a knife, garlic and an axe? Or even a whip named Bloody Tear? I don't think so.

Art can be considered IP. However, the dev said everything he's taken is from an open assets repository that's been around for something like a decade. Unlikely Konami would try to do anything since it's been around such a long time.

Also, for anyone (like Falksi) who doesn't like the numbers showing, there's an option to turn them off in the settings.

 

[Riskbreaker]

Looks like it's Crimsonland-inspired more than anything, gameplay-wise.
Spent awful lot of time with that one back in the day, damn fine time waster.

 

[CanadianCorndog]

I've got to level 66. This game is tons of dumb fun. $3!

 

[Irata]

If you want to try it first, you can play an older version in your browser at his itch.io page:
https://poncle.itch.io/vampire-survivors

 

[Humanity has risen!]

This game is more fun for $3 than any AAA game I've played in the last ten years.

 

[Dumle]

Fun little time waster with content for about 20 hours. Not much reason to keep playing more after unlocking everything.

Pretty nutty Steam stats for a simple game.

 

[Theodora]

Fantastic little game, me and my housemate are both hooked. And a quaint little homage to Castelvania.



Very unassuming to look at, but there's not much better you can spend two euros on in games.

(Though I think Poe Ratcho (aka, garlic dude) miight be bugged; at least he seems kinda OP in the library.)

 

[thesheeep]

It's so funny to see what kind of random games sometimes explode on Steam.

 

[Theodora]

It's so funny to see what kind of random games sometimes explode on Steam.

Someone like Northern Lion giving it a spotlight definitely goes a long way.

And sometimes you get communities intersecting, e.g. a significant number of the YouTubers and Twitch streamers who are into Escape from Tarkov due to its Stalker/survival heritage have been playing a lot of Project Zomboid lately (due to a recent patch that brought a massive update to multiplayer), and as a result its Steam sales have exploded. It's very much a small indie title, but that coverage helped it sell like crazy. According to SteamDB, it's been in the top ten selling games on Steam since Christmas, peaking at fourth highest sales in the week.

 

[CanadianCorndog]

Whoever made this game lost millions by pricing it like a cup of coffee.
Should have made it $20, put it on sale for 50% in the big sales and would have more than tripled their money, easily.

 

[Jasede]

It would be hard to sell it for more than $3 when you can get Magic Survival on Android, the same game but with worse graphics, but more levels, hazards, a crapload of more weapons, 20+ classes, etc. etc. for free.

Falksi You're aware you can and should turn these off, right?

 

[toughasnails]

Mack's review:

At first I wondered what the fuss is all about, with those "borrowed" graphics and no control over attacks... I think I get it now lol.

 

[Devastator]

I almost always skip early access games, but this gem came out of nowhere. I would have totally missed it if people weren’t talking about it everywhere. I played for about 10 hours over the past two weeks and it’s been really fun.

For a bit of background on development, I found this interview interesting: ‘Vampire Survivors’ creator Luca Galante talks quitting his job to fulfil his promise.

 

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