Vampire Survivors’ much-anticipated deck-building spin-off Vampire Crawlers has landed itself a release date.
It’s set to arrive for PC (via Steam), Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5 and Switch consoles next month, on 21st April. It’ll also be available on Xbox Game Pass day one, while an Android and iOS release is planned for later this year.
As for price, Vampire Crawlers costs £9.99 here in the UK, and €9.99/$9.99/¥1200 for those in other countries. You can check out a little teaser for it all – where developer Poncle encourages you to “stop buying drugs” and instead buy Vampire Crawlers – in the video below.
“The deckbuilding, dungeon-crawling spin-off takes the high-speed action of Vampire Survivors and turns it into a chaotic first-person card-slinging fiesta, allowing players to explore the world of Vampire Survivors from a whole new perspective, mostly because they’ll be too busy slinging cards at Mach speed to take in the scenery,” reads the official Vampire Crawlers blurb.
Our Bertie has already taken the Vampire Crawlers demo out for a spin, and while he enjoyed certain aspects, he wasn’t wholly convinced. “Vampire Crawlers works within the confines of what it does, but as a Vampire Survivors experience, it wavers,” Bertie wrote in Eurogamer’s Vampire Crawlers feature. “There are moments – usually when fighting waves of creatures in a boss encounter – that Vampire Crawlers comes close to the intoxication of its source material. But the staccato nature of the game always seems to interrupt it.
“As a Vampire Survivors experience, it’s fractured, and as a card game, it’s not really detailed enough; I don’t see much room for strategy or theorising here.”
