Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
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There are moments of fun, especially towards the end, but too often I just wanted to ram a garlic-flavoured stake through Vampire Crawlers repetitive, grindy heart.
It's in that realization that Vampire Crawlers begins to reveal its true end goal: making you smile as you dispense pure carnage.
If you're going to create a deckbuilder out of Vampire Survivors, I think Vampire Crawlers is pretty much exactly the result you'd hope for – minus some bugs. It combines all of the weapons and power-ups from the first game with clever fusions and twists on traditional deckbuilding tentpoles.Even things that are annoying - not being able to check your deck when selecting upgrade and, hard to track damage numbers - feel like quirks of the franchise. It scratches my brain in a familiar way, and the euphoric feeling of creating a broken build still feels great.
The gameplay loop is fun and addictive, rewarding experimentation and offering countless opportunities for different builds. Exploring dungeons has never been more fun, and I'm far more eager to see more Vampire Crawlers content than a sequel to Vampire Survivors.
I don't need games to be life-changing, but I do need a bit more mechanical depth than what Vampire Crawlers has, and while you can craft some incredibly entertaining combos as you play, and each new characters offers new cards, the core concept remains the same throughout. I think this is a solid dungeon crawler, if not fantastic.
Like Survivors, Vampire Crawlers has a wealth of things to unlock along with permanent upgrades to give you a boost. Early on, things can feel a bit limited, but after putting in a couple of hours, you'll start to see far more, like whole new features in the hub, and new rewards waiting in each stage.
Vampire Crawlers is a strong proof of concept that the Vampire Survivors formula can be applied to other genres. In this case, we have a rock solid marriage between card game and dungeon crawling mechanics, thereby creating an addictive and gratifying gameplay loop. I can't wait to see what updates are in store for Vampire Crawlers.
You might be happy to know that there are no vampires in Vampire Crawlers. You've got to hand it to developer poncle for committing to a bit, an...
