Vampire Survivors comes full-circle with Castlevania DLC expansion

The satellite of Dracula and the Belmont household is coming to Vampire Survivors. The recently announced downloadable contented for the auto-shooter endurance game, Ode to Castlevania, promises a clump of caller stuff: 20 characters, 40 weapons, an extra-large stage, and implicit 30 euphony tracks. Developer Poncle said successful its announcement station connected X that the $3.99 enlargement should incorporate much than 10 hours worthy of gameplay — though it’s not wide if determination volition really beryllium immoderate vampires successful the crippled (I’m inactive betting determination won’t be).

The caller Vampire Survivors DLC is acceptable to motorboat connected October 31st connected the PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PlayStation, Android, and iOS. You tin besides way its merchandise with a cheesy, ‘90s-era countdown timer site acceptable up by the developer. (Mind your talker measurement earlier visiting, arsenic it auto-plays a abbreviated loop of immoderate of the sick caller music.)

Vampire Survivors archetypal came retired successful 2021 with Castlevania-inspired sprite creation the developer purchased from an plus pack, but present the crippled is coming afloat ellipse with a Konami collaboration. Konami seems to emotion licensing its franchises successful caller years, arsenic Vampire Survivors had a Contra-themed collaboration earlier this year, and the Castlevania franchise was utilized successful Evil Empire’s critically-acclaimed Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania expansion.

Vampire Survivors has consistently received escaped and paid updates for years now, and the crippled has swelled with caller characters, stages, achievements, unlockables, and caller modes similar local co-op. The crippled has consistently been connected the Steam Deck astir played charts since Valve began tracking the games soaking up the astir playtime connected its handheld.