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Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors news & patch notes

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infosteam_community_announcements

35d ago

Hello everyone! We've finally got out our first QOL improvements patch and a detailed content roadmap for 2026. It took longer than expected because we got stuck for days trying to exit the game 🤷 Jokes aside, thank you again from everyone at poncle and Nosebleed for playing Vampire Crawlers and being patient for our updates and roadmap! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/1f8c43847ab13cbb586afb9a44061b21bf2300f8.png

Version 1.5 Contents

🔵 You can now quit the game

Settings Button and therefore Quit options always available in the bottom left corner
Backspace can be used to exit Shops or return to Village from the World Map
Clearer messaging around Autosave timing added to Quit Confirm pop-up

🔵 Card Sorting

Buttons to sort cards by Mana cost or Color
Pressing up/down will quickly move your selection to the next category:
- In unsorted mode it moves to the start and end of the hand
- In colour sort mode it moves to the next colour
- In mana sort mode it moves to the next level of mana cost

🔵 Jeweller Clarity

Jeweller UI now shows the chests you might find a Gem in
Made several tweaks to make gems rarity behave in a more intutitive way (changes listed below)
Sealing no longer requires the Player to bring a gem’s frequency below common; Gems can now be also instantly sealed.

🔵 New Deck View

There is now a single deck view which shows you ALL your cards in one place, and whether they are in your deck pile, your hand, or the discard pile. This is accessible from multiple screens.

🔵 Tooltips

Added Tooltip Visibility options to the settings to give players more flexibility
Removed the controller button dedicated to Tooltip toggling (it is now used for card sorting)

🔵 Endless Mode

If you have completed the game, a small new teaser area is unlocked on the map. This level contains a new Relic which unlocks Endless Mode
With the Relic active, Endless Mode is available in any dungeon that you have previously cleared.
In Endless Mode the difficulty is increased, and you can keep digging after completing the normal floors of a dungeon, allowing you to explore further and experience even tougher encounters.
The Jeweller is disabled in Endless Mode to make it an a challenge about going as deep as possible in a stage having to rely on the base-game RNG rather than a preset gem configuration.

🔵 Other changes

Grim Grimoire is now available during level-ups
When levelling up you will be shown if any of the cards offered are part of an evolution with your existing cards (but only if you have Evo’d that combination previously)
On the Pause screen we now default to the bottom row of buttons to make it easier to open the Grim Grimoire (or exit…)
Previously hidden stats like Re-roll are now shown when they are not 0
There is now a Luck-based chance to get 4 gems per chest intead of 3
Luck increases the chance of getting better quality gems when levelling up

🔵 Coin Count is still OP

Profit.

🔵 Bugfixes and improvements

Please see the list below

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2026 content roadmap

Please note this is the minimum amount of content we're planning to release with each update. We'll actively try to pack in more QOL improvements and stuff that makes sense, especially in the later ones. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/d29fbcc0b159f7653e30fc995ca007d8a78999d2.png

New content strategy

As we all know, it's quite easy to become OP in Vampire Crawlers. It's a game supposed to be completed in some 20-30 hours. So this is how we're planning to keep expanding the game. In every 2026 update, we're going to add a new post-game Challenge Stage. As the name suggests, in order to complete these stages you'll have to overcome a challenge in the form of a new game mechanic. After you emerge victorious, you'll be able to toggle On or Off that game mechanic in every stage (including the original Challenge one). Most of the new content will be designed around the specific game mechanics introduced in the update, but obviously nothing will stop you from using those mechanics outside of the Challenge and find new ways to break the base game. As you can see from the roadmap, the challenge mechanic in the next update will be a limited hand size, paired with a staple mechanic of card games: discarding. The idea is that by the end of the 2026 update cycle you'll be able to decide to play the game in a more challenging way or stick to the base version, while still getting all the added content and mechanics.

A tease about 2027

For the next year, we are planning something different than Challenge Stages: we are building the Astral Stair. Where will you go? Who will you be? {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/d1167e883efe215bdc2033cc511b454cd3f66eee.png {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/1f8c43847ab13cbb586afb9a44061b21bf2300f8.png

Steam Community Items are out today

1 Badge (5 levels + foil)
5 Trading Cards (Featuring Gennaro, Mortaccio, Poppea, Imelda, Clerici)
4 Profile Backgrounds
5 Emoticons

Here’s a preview of one of the cards: (If you are not sure what any of that means, you can read how to unlock Steam Community Items here.) {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/1f8c43847ab13cbb586afb9a44061b21bf2300f8.png

Other platforms

This update will reach all Consoles soon! There will be a couple of major changes for Nintendo Switch 2:

Game is now 1080p in handheld mode, and 4K when docked
Mouse: the stick on the controller that acts as the mouse is now functional for dungeon navigation

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Bugfixes and improvements

- Gems which move down in rarity (e.g Rare to common) will appear in both their original chest and current rarity chest. Gems which move up in rarity will be removed from their original Chests. This helps reduce the chance of finding a gem which has been made rarer but allows high-quality gems (like the Evo Gem) to appear more often when rarity has been reduced. - The gems which drop from different chests have been adjusted:

Bronze: Common, Uncommon, Rare (unchanged)
Silver: Rare, Epic, Legendary (Small chance of legendary)
Gold: Epic, Legendary (unchanged)

- UI arrows added to the Jeweller for consistency with other Shops - Scroll views in the Jeweller should work more consistently - Fixed overflow bug with coin amount and enemies'health going negative - Fix for Gorgeous Moon only targeting the front row - Fix for Overkill UI getting stuck if rapidly re-triggered - Fix for crash when rearranging cards in hand as the turn was ending - Fix for ghost UI buttons showing on Credits when using mouse. This one’s for you Alex! - Save Data time stamps are now shown in local time (rather than UTC used previously) - End of Floor shovel now animates onto the screen instead of just appearing - You can only revive if you’ve actually died, not when completing a dungeon - Cards affected by Leader or Midas gems now show an indicator that this is happening - A card with the right colour, which has the right colour gem inserted, can now unlock the Silver Chest by itself; any card with the rainbow gem can now unlock a Silver Chest - Game now correctly respects the target framerate set in the display options (Unless Power Saving Mode is enabled, in which case framerate is locked to 30fps) - Audio

Extra attacks which happen at the end of a turn (e.g. Santa Water) now play their sounds correctly
Shops should now pay their Buy/Fail sounds correctly
Various small fixes to Drowner audio

- Localisation updates

Clearer Quit behaviour (see above)
Equip button label in Inn changed to “Add”
Gem Description updates for Drain and Mug gems to improve clarity: Enemies that get hit by these gems will do the effect when they die and do not need to be killed at the moment the gem hits them
Gem “Easy Combo” renamed to “Combo Breaker”, with improved text descriptions that better match the way it works (players were not understanding that the combo would end when this gem is used)

- General bug fixing and minor polish

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QOL improvements update

infosteam_community_announcements

35d ago

Version 1.5 Contents

🔵 You can now quit the game

Settings Button and therefore Quit options always available in the bottom left corner
Backspace can be used to exit Shops or return to Village from the World Map
Clearer messaging around Autosave timing added to Quit Confirm pop-up

🔵 Card Sorting

Buttons to sort cards by Mana cost or Color
Pressing up/down will quickly move your selection to the next category:
- In unsorted mode it moves to the start and end of the hand
- In colour sort mode it moves to the next colour
- In mana sort mode it moves to the next level of mana cost

🔵 Jeweller Clarity

Jeweller UI now shows the chests you might find a Gem in
Made several tweaks to make gems rarity behave in a more intutitive way (changes listed below)
Sealing no longer requires the Player to bring a gem’s frequency below common; Gems can now be also instantly sealed.

🔵 New Deck View

There is now a single deck view which shows you ALL your cards in one place, and whether they are in your deck pile, your hand, or the discard pile. This is accessible from multiple screens.

🔵 Tooltips

Added Tooltip Visibility options to the settings to give players more flexibility
Removed the controller button dedicated to Tooltip toggling (it is now used for card sorting)

🔵 Endless Mode

If you have completed the game, a small new teaser area is unlocked on the map. This level contains a new Relic which unlocks Endless Mode
With the Relic active, Endless Mode is available in any dungeon that you have previously cleared.
In Endless Mode the difficulty is increased, and you can keep digging after completing the normal floors of a dungeon, allowing you to explore further and experience even tougher encounters.
The Jeweller is disabled in Endless Mode to make it an a challenge about going as deep as possible in a stage having to rely on the base-game RNG rather than a preset gem configuration.

🔵 Other changes

Grim Grimoire is now available during level-ups
When levelling up you will be shown if any of the cards offered are part of an evolution with your existing cards (but only if you have Evo’d that combination previously)
On the Pause screen we now default to the bottom row of buttons to make it easier to open the Grim Grimoire (or exit…)
Previously hidden stats like Re-roll are now shown when they are not 0
There is now a Luck-based chance to get 4 gems per chest intead of 3
Luck increases the chance of getting better quality gems when levelling up

🔵 Coin Count is still OP

Profit.

🔵 Bugfixes and improvements

Please see the list below

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2026 content roadmap

New content strategy

A tease about 2027

Steam Community Items are out today

1 Badge (5 levels + foil)
5 Trading Cards (Featuring Gennaro, Mortaccio, Poppea, Imelda, Clerici)
4 Profile Backgrounds
5 Emoticons

Other platforms

This update will reach all Consoles soon! There will be a couple of major changes for Nintendo Switch 2:

Game is now 1080p in handheld mode, and 4K when docked
Mouse: the stick on the controller that acts as the mouse is now functional for dungeon navigation

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/1f8c43847ab13cbb586afb9a44061b21bf2300f8.png

Bugfixes and improvements

Bronze: Common, Uncommon, Rare (unchanged)
Silver: Rare, Epic, Legendary (Small chance of legendary)
Gold: Epic, Legendary (unchanged)

Extra attacks which happen at the end of a turn (e.g. Santa Water) now play their sounds correctly
Shops should now pay their Buy/Fail sounds correctly
Various small fixes to Drowner audio

- Localisation updates

Clearer Quit behaviour (see above)
Equip button label in Inn changed to “Add”
Gem Description updates for Drain and Mug gems to improve clarity: Enemies that get hit by these gems will do the effect when they die and do not need to be killed at the moment the gem hits them
Gem “Easy Combo” renamed to “Combo Breaker”, with improved text descriptions that better match the way it works (players were not understanding that the combo would end when this gem is used)

- General bug fixing and minor polish

1 million Crawlers in 1 week

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90d ago

Hello,

First of all, thank you to everyone who has been playing Vampire Crawlers since launch.

The game released on April 21 on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation, with 1 million users in its first week. That is obviously a ridiculous number, and as our first Vampire Survivors spin-off, it means a lot to us.

Vampire Survivors began as a very small, very strange project, and over time it grew into something much bigger than we ever expected. Vampire Crawlers is the first time we’ve tried to take those same core ideas and push them into a completely different genre. So thank you for trusting us enough to come along for that, and for the overwhelming response.

🟢We've just released Hotfix 1.4.1 with the following fixes:

Fix a crash caused by a Gatti Amari scuffle happening as an encounter ends
Fix a save slot error that could occur if a brand new player exited before the tutorial finished loading
Improve detection for corrupt save data, or save data brought back from a later version to an earlier one
Add limit to frame rate based on monitor refresh rate to to fix too many resources being used (should reduce number of crashes)
Fix a crash caused by the Echo gem
Demo saves still in the tutorial are now deleted when upgrading to the full game (prevents broken save states)
Improve saving integrity to avoid corruption in the case of power cuts or unexpected app closure
Fix an issue where two save slots could be loaded at the same time, which should help prevent achievement progress from being wiped

🟡 We are also actively working on adding Endless Mode, that will arrive in a few weeks together with QOL updates:

Easier to quit
Easier to access Deck View
Hand sorting
More languages

Our focus for patches is, as usual, to add more fun content. There's more 👇

Content Roadmap

We also have a roadmap for upcoming content. Now that players have had time to get their hands on it, we’re in a much better position to decide what should come first.

So, in summary:

Thank you for playing
Thank you for the reviews
Thank you for the bug reports
Hotfixes incoming
We have a roadmap

Thank you to everyone at Nosebleed Interactive and poncle for bringing Vampire Crawlers to life, and thank you again to everyone who has played it so far.

See you in the next news post.

Vampire Crawlers, the first-ever Vampire Survivors spin-off, is here!

Vendettasteam_community_announcements

98d ago

Hello Vampire S̶u̶r̶v̶i̶v̶o̶r̶s̶ Crawlers!

The time has come. Today we’re releasing Vampire Crawlers, the first spin-off of Vampire Survivors, now available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation.

With Vampire Crawlers, we wanted to take the snowballing chaos of Vampire Survivors and redesign it as a TurboTurn™-based, card-driven BLOBBER with roguelite elements. One moment, you’re taking a stroll through the average Italian countryside; the next, you’re exploring infested dungeons, building busted decks, and headbutting objects at alarming speed, as God intended.

You can watch the launch trailer below.

**Fun fact: Vampire Crawlers contains exactly the same number of vampires as Vampire Survivors.

Vampire Crawlers

If you played the demo, the full game expands on those systems with more content, plus fixes and improvements across the board. The game is built around:

TurboTurn™ combat: Turn-based combat without the wait. Queue your moves instantly and let the game resolve them at full speed.
The Combo: cards are played in ascending mana order, and each step multiplies the next card’s effect.
Wild cards that let you extend the stack and push your turns to 10, 20, 30… and possibly more than that
Deckbuilding through progression: gain new cards, find power-ups, chase weapon evolutions, and shape your build as you go
Character cards and summoned survivors that add more effects and help create larger cascades
Dungeon crawling: explore dungeons full of treasures, floor progression, interactive points of interest, and something seldom seen in Vampire Survivors: functioning walls
A pace you choose yourself: take your time and be tactical, or play turns as fast as you humanly can

The full version also comes with the fixes and improvements made after the demo feedback period, and we’re planning to keep the demo available.

Thank you again to everyone who took the time to play, report bugs, and send feedback.

Releasing now — $9.99 / €9.99 / £9.99

You can get Vampire Crawlers on Steam by clicking the link below.

The Music of Vampire Crawlers

You can now experience crawling through the average Italian countryside at your own pace with the Vampire Crawlers Original Soundtrack!

Featuring music by the legendary Yoko Shimomura, Daniele Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and Michael Coviello.

The OST contains:

Over 1 hour of music from Vampire Crawlers
MP3 and FLAC (lossless) music files
13 main tracks with 13 variations
5 jingles

You can listen to it here for the low, low price of nothing:

Or download it here once you get the game:

That’s all for now. Thanks for staying with us, and happy crawling!

-From everyone at poncle and Nosebleed Interactive

Vampire Crawlers is coming April 21st

Virgil Infernassteam_community_announcements

131d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/11e2503ef81198c2c22cb27e38e4f51dabd99e6d.png Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers, Today we have yet another trailer. It has no gameplay, but includes the price, a release date, and a few other things that may not be helpful. Unless you were wondering what floor chicken costs. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/jaAEKYGnxrAI apologise for the incomprehensible reference-inception but just a little

Vampire Crawlers will cost £9.99 / $9.99 / €9.99 / ¥1200

You can get it for Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PS5 starting April 21st

The game is coming to mobile a bit later, but still in 2026. You can wishlist the game by clicking the link below. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/ If you want to see how the game works, the demo is still available too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4329470/ Thank you all and see you in the next news post! - Luca

FAQs

When does the game release? April 21st 2026 How much does it cost? £9.99 / $9.99 / €9.99 / ¥1200 The price might be slightly different on some consoles due to platform restrictions. My currency isn't listed, how much will it be? For regional pricing, we tried to price the game using real purchasing power rather than relying on suggested conversion rates. Hopefully we got it right, if somehow we messed up and the game is outrageously expensive rather than cheap, please let us know when it launches! Why is this more expensive than Vampire Survivors? VS was lightning in a bottle, originally made by a solo dev (hello!) with a budget of £1100 and grew in content and production value over time thanks to the overwhelming success and support from the players. Vampire Crawlers instead is made from scratch by the teams of poncle and Nosebleed Interactive, which makes it a more traditional and much more costly production. As mentioned a few times in past Steam News, we price our stuff depending on its production value and by keeping affordability in mind. What platforms is it coming to? Vampire Crawlers will launch on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation. Mobile versions are planned for a bit later, but still in 2026. Does the game support controllers? Yes. Controller support is included. Does the game support Cross Save between different platforms? Not at launch, we're looking into it on time for the mobile ports. Will Save Data carry over on Steam if I play the demo? Yes. We advise to not overdo it with the demo, but who are we to stop you? How will the game differ from the demo? Other than obviously having all of the content, the game will launch with a lot of fixes and improvements compared to the demo (and thanks to everyone that helped by reporting bugs, feedback, and suggestions!). The demo will also be updated later on to reflect the new standard, as we are planning to keep it available for download.

Thank you for playing the Vampire Crawlers Demo!

falanghersteam_community_announcements

144d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/10d7688eeb02823d39eaf28a99941dab942f993a.png Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers, Steam Next Fest is over, which means I can stop refreshing the stats page to check the numbers quite so often. Thanks to everyone who tried the Vampire Crawlers demo during the event! Whether you played for five minutes or five hours, streamed it, reported bugs, or shared feedback, we appreciate it! Watching players jump in and immediately try to break things remains one of the most useful parts of releasing a demo. You kept crawling, and the game mostly behaved. Here’s a quick look at how things went. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/9c808b4957459b03cd83404c7ba6d814e3d2887a.gif

Demo stats

During the Steam Next Fest, the demo got: 358k downloads 274k players That’s a lot of people trying the game in a short amount of time! Vampire Crawlers has now also passed 420,000+ wishlists. Thank you for giving it a go! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4329470/ {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/79473838116064686362acecb8b9c996c30c97bf.gif

FAQs

Will demo progress carry over to the full game? Yes. You’ll have the option to carry your demo progress into the full game at launch. If you prefer starting fresh though, that’s also possible: this game has save slots from day one😅 What is a TurboTurn and why should I care? Turn-based games can often be a bit slow because of the waiting between actions. TurboTurn is our attempt to remove that waiting. You can queue and play cards as quickly as you want, while the game resolves everything correctly in the background. I got soft-locked after a boss fight / the battle didn’t end. This showed up a few times during Next Fest. It’s a bug and it’s already being addressed for the full release. Thanks to everyone who reported it and included details. When is the release date? We're very close to choosing a release date, since we already have all the content we had planned for launch, and have been bugfixing and polishing for a while! We are planning to launch on Steam and consoles on the same day. Are you taking the demo down now? No. The demo will stay available between now and launch, and likely afterwards too. Why does the game feel so easy? The demo is intentionally a bit forgiving so players can experiment with the systems. The full game will ask a bit more from you. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/2f9b3e0110024bd233139e7de06ebbc6867db905.gif

Help, what even is this game?

If you want a quick overview of the game mechanics, we made a short video series called Let’s Explore Vampire Crawlers: EP1: TurboTurn basics and Card Customisation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ael4oMaKQM EP2: Combo multiplier and Wildcards https://youtu.be/0XRi8ddiK34 EP3: Party Selection and Stats https://youtu.be/v2PFnInWOYg EP4: Character Triggers and Card Types https://youtu.be/h0SefecZ-g0 EP5: Village, World Map, and Floor Maps https://youtu.be/NtCS0XRsoto EP6: Blacksmith and Jeweller https://youtu.be/BssTmgvyiVo EP7: Arcana Game Modifiers https://youtu.be/IqT1n125Oys Well, that’s it for now. See you in the next news post! Luca

Thank you for over 170k wishlist additions!

infosteam_community_announcements

224d ago

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/f2f8bdeb004634e0b0eb510ba4063178fbc51cc1.png Vampire Crawlers has already got more than 170k wishlist on Steam, so thank you very much to all players for your trust! So far we have published only what is effectively a hype trailer to try to convey how it feels to play Vampire Crawlers, with a few sneak peeks at many of the game features and options to snowball into unhinged chaos. So, for a first update, we are showing a new gameplay trailer and some simple and unedited gameplay footage of the very first dungeon floor, focused on basic gameplay. This should let you see what is at the core of Vampire Crawlers: have fun playing satisfying abilities in turbo turn-based battles, at whatever speed you prefer. In the following weeks we'll also talk about all other gameplay features. From basic stuff, like why and how we are moving in dungeon floors instead of menus, to how easily, but also deeply, we can customise cards and abilities. Please know that beyond this facade of casual approach to the genre, people who are into min/maxing and total optimization will actually be able to dramatically customise the RNG! But enough spoilers, let's start unwrapping the features of Vampire Crawlers starting with some unedited gameplay footage (alpha footage subject to change in the final version; mouse cursor not included :p )

Gameplay video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SARs48njusw

Unedited gameplay footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U60hjHh-Nuc Fans of Vampire Survivors might also be interested in knowing that all enemies and icons are getting a fresh look in Vampire Crawlers, always made by the incredible Glauber Kotaki! Here's a little preview: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/40534ddb50c9a42974b112b7249abfc5782fbbb0.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/0ec35c24d1c505d45910a5522094a5a77701b179.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/4fc9b87a11ceb71849b0a49f85c6f8042c6b036f.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45865562/fea16ec4c6818c7849c598fb1eae4562dac57d3e.png Finally, a lot of players have been asking for a demo! We will make one, but we don't have a date for it yet, we'll keep you updated through the Steam News and on Discord as we keep working on the game. Thank you all again and see you in the next news post! - Luca

VAMPIRE CRAWLERS: the turbo wildcard from VAMPIRE SURVIVORS

jack_ponclesteam_community_announcements

250d ago

https://youtu.be/JbDVqLlLarY After years of tiny teasers, we're finally announcing VAMPIRE CRAWLERS: the turbo wildcard from VAMPIRE SURVIVORS! As a candidate for most stupid game name of the year the minute it got announced, VAMPIRE CRAWLERS has the goal to bring many of the elements of Vampire Survivors to an existing game genre: deckbuilding. Or was it dungeon crawling? Blobber maybe? Eh. Play cards in a turbo turn-based combat, Explore dungeon maps to find treasures and customisations, All dressed in a special Vampire Survivors sauce and some usual little rogue-lite elements. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/Vampire_Crawlers_The_Turbo_Wildcard_from_Vampire_Survivors VAMPIRE CRAWLERS will arrive in 2026 and is the first of our concepts for VS spin-offs that we've been making with other indie studios! It's a full game that we're nuts enough to aim to globally release on all platforms next year: please wish us luck! We at poncle hope that you'll like VAMPIRE CRAWLERS just as much as we do: both making it and play testing it has been an absolute blast for both deckbuilding veterans and people who never played a card game before. See you closer to the end of the year for our 2025 recap and a glance at future content for Vampire Survivors (and not only), but in the meantime please let us know what you think of VAMPIRE CRAWLERS so far and also if you have suggestions that can beat the full official title: VAMPIRE CRAWLERS: the turbo wildcard from VAMPIRE SURVIVORS! ---

FAQs

- How did this project start? Shortly after the initial success of Vampire Survivors, I was already thinking of getting in touch with other indie studios to start working on spin-offs, so that I could focus on building my team to keep working on VS, while also getting some of my game concepts for existing genres to be developed. This means that it is something that has effectively been in the works for almost 4 years! I've been calling this kind of projects "experiments" in the past Steam news. - Is this some sort of sequel to Vampire Survivors? This is just a spin-off of Vampire Survivors, hopefully the first of a series of spin-offs! The idea is to take some of the accidental core pillars behind the development of VS and to apply them to existing genres. I’m talking about accessibility, immediacy, affordability, replayability, lightheartedness, and tons of flashy stuff. - Why is this a "Vampire Survivors" game and not a new IP? VS is very well known, so I hope that this will help players understand immediately that this game has been made with the same core principles in mind, simply applied to a different game genre. Also this helps massively getting out of the way one of the major blockers I always had when making games: defining story, settings, lore etc: When making VS, I managed to put all of that aside and let it all come out organically while developing the game, by taking inspiration just from a weapon icon, a music track (from the usual VS composers Daniele Zandara and Filippo Vicarelli, who are back, covering each other’s music tracks for Vampire Crawlers), or even wacky theories from the community! Now all that lore has a huge value, it allows me and the other devs to just focus on the gameplay aspects of the game, while at the same time allowing space for new ideas thanks to the open-endedness of VS. - Will you update Vampire Crawlers post-launch like Vampire Survivors? Yes, we are already planning to keep supporting the game post-launch and we have a thousand ideas about what we could do! Vampire Crawlers is a whole game, with a beginning and an end, so we are going to wait and see what the players say and suggest before choosing what to do post-launch. - When is it releasing? When almost every other game is releasing: before GTA6 :) We're aiming for early/mid 2026 - So, is this a deckbuilder dungeon crawler? As I'm getting similar questions so I shall re-post. VC is not a deckbuild game. Could move subjectively but not a dungeon crawler game either. By incorporating with the concept of turbo(turning), it's totally brand new genre called action Turboturn™ game(Turbo Turn system). (YES, it's just a rogue-lite deckbuilder with a touch of dungeon crawling) - Is this a new game from Luca Galante? Yes, hello, the game concepts for the VS spin-off are born from the same Italian-memes-ridden mind, then expertly developed, improved, and brought to life by the teams partner of poncle

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors news & patch notes

Version 1.5 Contents

🔵 You can now quit the game

🔵 Card Sorting

🔵 Jeweller Clarity

🔵 New Deck View

🔵 Tooltips

🔵 Endless Mode

🔵 Other changes

🔵 Coin Count is still OP

🔵 Bugfixes and improvements

2026 content roadmap

New content strategy

A tease about 2027

Steam Community Items are out today

Other platforms

Bugfixes and improvements

Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors news & patch notes

Version 1.5 Contents

🔵 You can now quit the game

🔵 Card Sorting

🔵 Jeweller Clarity

🔵 New Deck View

🔵 Tooltips

🔵 Endless Mode

🔵 Other changes

🔵 Coin Count is still OP

🔵 Bugfixes and improvements

2026 content roadmap

New content strategy

A tease about 2027

Steam Community Items are out today

Other platforms

Bugfixes and improvements

Content Roadmap

Vampire Crawlers

Releasing now — $9.99 / €9.99 / £9.99

The Music of Vampire Crawlers

Vampire Crawlers will cost £9.99 / $9.99 / €9.99 / ¥1200

You can get it for Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PS5 starting April 21st

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Demo stats

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Help, what even is this game?

Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers!

Character Triggers and Card types

Explore Maps, Find Treasures

The first playable demo will be available during the Steam Next Fest on February 23rd! There will be the option to carry progress to the full game.

Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers!

Combo Multiplier

Character Selection

The first playable demo will be available during the Steam Next Fest on February 23rd! There will be the option to carry progress to the full game.

Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers!

The Turboturn!

Card Customisation

The first playable demo will be available during the Steam Next Fest (and also on Xbox) on February 23rd! There will be the option to carry progress to the full game.

Huge thanks to everyone for getting Vampire Crawlers to more than 200k wishlists!

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Steam news for Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors