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Basa Uram
The player controls an automatically attacking character while fighting against continuous waves of monsters, with the goal being to survive the onslaught for as long as possible and unlock additional characters, weapons, and relics for subsequent sessions. In spite of the game's name and key art, none of the variety of monsters encountered are vampires.
Vampire Survivors is nominally set in rural Italy in 2021. Hordes of monsters summoned by the evil Bisconte Draculó ravage the land, and the Belpaese family and other heroic survivors take it upon themselves to hunt down and defeat Draculó.[3] This quest takes them through monster-infested locales such as a cursed forest, a haunted library, an abandoned dairy plant, an ominous tower, and an otherworldly chapel.
So while I considered going with a more high-brow pick like Sam Barlow's intricate narrative in Immortality, I still haven't finished Immortality because it was a bit heavy for me to play when I was feeling tired. So instead, it's about the real thing that brought me joy this year and that's a 2 game that does not even feature a single vampire. Because sometimes all you want in life is simplicity, and garlic.
Vampire Survivors is a singular game. Kind of a roguelike, kind of an arcade game, kind of a bullet hell, but at the same time nothing like what you probably think of when those genres come to mind. After all, there's a reason it captured the hearts and minds of gamers and won handfuls of awards on other platforms in 2022. Jam-packed with rewarding structures, satisfying sound design, cheeky nods to the much more senior vampire-killing franchise that inspired it, and loads of secrets, it'll sink its fangs into you after just one round.
The thing vampire survivors really nails is a compelling metaprogression that I really wasn't expecting. Even if and when you exhaust the unlock list and secrets list, each character has their own completion list for each stage and the hard cap on how long a run can last stops overpowered runs becoming boring.
Death Must Die is currently in Early Access, and so far, the response from players has been very positive. "This game is already among the best in the survivors genre, with more updates it has potential to be just as good or even better than Vampire Survivors," says one Steam reviewer. Another describes it as a "top-tier survivors-style roguelite" thanks to its "reasonable build diversity, decent progression, and a developer that listens to feedback."