
Game: Vampire Survivors
Developer: poncle
Genre: Shoot-em-up/Rogue-like
Releases: 2022 (Windows, Xbox One, Xbox X/S)
Stalk’s Rating: 8/10
If you have read videogame-related articles on this blog in the last few weeks, you might have noticed that I picked up a new genre of video games. Some people call them Bullet heaven or auto-shooters, but I stick with the “Souls-like” approach to naming conventions and stick to the last part of the name of the title that spawned the entire genre, hence “Survivors”-games. The title in question is “Vampire Survivors” and if you have not heard about it you are definitely missing out. “Vampire Survivors” came out of nowhere but captured gamers everywhere with fun game play that managed to keep the player invested and going for more runs, all while the graphic can be best described as charmingly old-school. I have played lots of “Survivors” games since I picked up “Vampire Survivors”, but it is definitely high time to give the original its own review.
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