Vampire Survivors comes full-circle with Castlevania DLC enlargement

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 latest stuff: 20 characters, 40 weapons, an extra-large stage, and over 30 music tracks. Developer Poncle mentioned in its announcement post on X that the $3.99 enlargement ought to comprise greater than 10 hours price of gameplay — although it’s not clear if there’ll truly be any vampires within the sport (I’m nonetheless betting there gained’t be).

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

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 lately, 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 enlargement.

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