Vampire Survivors is getting a brand new replace quickly. It is referred to as the Chilling Replace, not as a result of it is scary (although it’s possible you’ll assume it’s) however as a result of it includes a new map—referred to as Extremely Whiteout—with plenty of snow in it. Not solely snow, but additionally floating skulls and angry-looking, snow-covered yowies.
Additionally featured within the trailer is a brand new weapon referred to as the Glass Fandango (“stronger with motion, Orologions, and in opposition to frozen enemies”), a brand new relic referred to as the Antidote (“permits to purchase the Defang PowerUp”) and a brand new character referred to as She-Moon, an enchantress who unlocks as soon as Extremely Whiteout is survived for 20 minutes. As typical the replace will probably be free, however there is not any phrase but on an actual launch date: it is simply “coming quickly”.
Vampire Survivors studio Poncle did an AMA on reddit to enrich the announcement. It did not yield many concrete particulars on the forthcoming replace nevertheless it was a enjoyable dialogue. Requested if Poncle will ever make a “recreation / sequel” with Unity, creator Luca Galante (posting as poncle_luca) answered “lol no thanks!”.
On the subject of future video games, Galante wrote that they’d doubtless be pretty just like Vampire Survivors in terms of scope.
“We’ll ‘maintain it easy’ and gameplay centered,” Galante wrote. “We would strive a couple of issues however we cannot all of a sudden begin constructing one thing with a totally totally different scope. We have now plans, however they’re just about just like the updates plan for VS: we work on a number of various things on the similar time, till one all of a sudden begins choosing up pace organically as a result of it appears like the best factor to do at the moment, and so we concentrate on transport that one.”
He added: “I feel it is a good option to say we do not know what we’ll ship subsequent but, however we all know we’ll ship one thing.” After which, summarising the tiny studio’s plans in additional prosaic phrases, Galante added: “If we have been company, I would say that ‘Graphically ugly third individual devoid-of-narrative single participant video games will proceed to be the muse of our enterprise’.”
All questions associated to vampires have been met with obliviousness. The present roadmap runs till the tip of 2024, so lots extra Vampire Survivors stuff is coming, apparently.