Vampire Survivors comes full-circle with the Castlevania DLC growth

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The world of Dracula and the Belmont household is coming to Vampire Survivors. The newly introduced downloadable content material for the auto-shooter survival sport, Ode to Castlevania, guarantees a bunch of recent stuff: 20 characters, 40 weapons, an extra-large stage, and over 30 music tracks. Developer Poncle stated in his announcement publish on X that the $3.99 growth ought to comprise greater than 10 hours value of gameplay — though it isn’t clear if there’ll really be any vampires within the sport (I am nonetheless betting there will not be).

The brand new Vampire Survivors DLC is ready to launch on October thirty first on the PC, Nintendo Swap, Xbox, PlayStation, Android, and iOS. You too can monitor its launch with a tacky, ’90s-era countdown timer website arrange by the developer. (Thoughts your speaker quantity earlier than visiting, because it auto-plays a brief loop of a number of the sick new music.)

That is plenty of Belmonts and pals. Picture: Poncle

Vampire Survivors first got here out in 2021 with Castlevania-inspired sprite artwork the developer bought from an asset pack, however now the sport is coming full circle with a Konami collaboration. Konami appears to like licensing its franchises in recent times, as Vampire Survivors had a Contra-themed collaboration earlier this 12 months, and the Castlevania franchise was utilized in Evil Empire’s critically-acclaimed Useless Cells: Return to Castlevania growth.

Vampire Survivors has constantly obtained free and paid updates for years now, and the sport has swelled with new characters, phases, achievements, unlockables, and new modes like native co-op. The sport has constantly been on the Steam Deck most performed charts since Valve started monitoring the video games absorbing probably the most playtime on its handheld.

Vampire Survivors comes full-circle with the Castlevania DLC growth

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