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Should Baldur's Gate 3 and Vampire Survivors do a crossover? Seems like a leading question to meMar 19, 2024 - VG247Do you like Baldur's Gate 3? Do you also like Vampire Survivors? Well, Larian’s CEO has brought up the idea of a crossover between the two, via a poll that I think is a bit disgraceful as far as polls go. Yup, now that the studio’s stopped poor BG3 Dark Urge players from being unceremoniously dumped by Minthara whenever they decide to, you know, stop being quite so evil, it seems like it’s full steam ahead on what’s next, which could be a fun collab. Or, you know, maybe Swen Vincke just wanted to cheekily tell us he’s hanging out with some cool people. Ok, so what’s happened is this. Vincke posted a twitter poll asking “Should Baldur’s Gate 3 and Vampire Survivors collaborate?”, and followed it up shortly afterwards with a nice picture of him and Geo Morgan, Poncle's lead partnership manager, just chilling and giving a nice thumbs up. So far, so very ‘this is a thing, I guess, and maybe it’ll actually lead to something’, right? Read more Vampire Survivors' latest update is an ode to its original game engineMar 2, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunVampire Survivors received yet another update this past week. The Space-54 update adds two new characters, four new weapons, a new relic, and a new bonus stage. It also introduces cross-save support between Steam and Android to the Steam public beta branch. Read more It is once again time to boot up Vampire Survivors thanks to a space-themed free update and a Final Fantasy parody trailer teasing more to comeFeb 29, 2024 - PC GamerIt's unclear if the people's champion of 2022 will ever slow down: hot on the heels of an Among Us crossover DLC with outer space maps and enemies in December, Vampire Survivors has released yet another free content update... Read more.Hit roguelike celebrates huge new update with homage to FF7Feb 29, 2024 - PCGamesNVampire Survivors is already more than capable of sinking its fangs deep into any player who gives it a shot, sucking up more free time than they might expect. And yet, its creator Poncle has continued to work away at the hit game, regularly releasing both (very affordable) paid DLC and huge, complimentary updates to the smash hit roguelike. The latest of these, the free Space54 update, has just been launched in celebration of the game engine first used to make Vampire Survivors and, curiously enough, the original Final Fantasy 7 trailer put out back in 1997. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Vampire Survivors weapon evolution guide The best Vampire Survivors build Steam's top rated roguelike reveals huge update plans for 2024 Content Patch 1.9.0: Space 54Feb 29, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsNew Content: - 7 new EXTRA achievements - 1 new bonus stage - 2 new characters - 4 new weapons (of which 2 evos) - 1 new relic In this patch there are a lot of fixes too, including some optimisations that will let you play a run with Sammy for at least 2 more seconds than before! Steam Achievements notes: this patch actually adds 8 platform Achievements, because it includes the Atlas Gate from the Adventures update! Quick content walkthrough: THE BAT STUFF - Defeat a total of 161616 bats, from any stage, to unlock the Pako Battiliar weapon - Evolve Pako Battiliar using Max level Hollow Heart to unlock the Bat Robbert character THE SPACE STUFF - Collect 5 Gold Fingers to unlock Space 54 (enter and exit a run if you've already got enough) - Pickup the Phas3r weapon in Space 54, get it to level 7, and evovle it using Max level Empty Tome. - At minute 18 in Space 54, locate and collect the Brave Story relic. - Survive 20 minutes in Space 54 to unlock the Space Dude character. Cross-Save now in public-beta Available on the Steam public-beta branch and on Android public beta! Please send us any feedback about the feature, it's very delicate since we're talking about save-data, so we'll take all the help we can get to make sure it's solid. Please also let us know if there's any other service you could find useful. We've been investigating cross-platform-dlc (so buy in one place, play anywhere) but it's the biggest bureaucratic can of worms ever; so, not being a technical problem, I'm honestly not too hopeful we'll be able to get it done (if you follow gaming news then you probably know very well how protective certain platforms are of any paid content). We have put together a FAQ here: https://poncle.games/account-help Full spoilers: Stage: Space 54 Plain bonus stage with plenty of items and odd enemies. Walls stop blocking movement at minute 11:00 Might be a bit strong visually, so if it's bothering you please make sure to see if checking the "Disable Moving Background" makes it better! Relic: Brave Story Allows to choose Random Level Up choices in Stage Selection. Currently selectable only before starting a run. This will let you try do to runs in which the RNG picks weapons for you when levelling up, good luck! Weapon: Phas3r & Photonstorm Can be picked up in Space 54, and unlocked for every other run by levelling it up to Level 7. For the base version, Area only affects size horizontally. The evolution fires at least x2 projectiles than the base version, occasionally x5 when dealing a critical hit. Weapon: Pako Battiliar & Mazo Familiar Can be unlocked anytime just by killing A LOT of bats, across any amount of runs. It fires additional times when the owner receives damage or loses a shield. The evolution fires more projectiles and deals bonus damage depending on the current Max Health bonus of the owner. NewCharacter: Space Dude Fast character that starts with Phas3r. Has a special ability that fires all weapons regardless of their Cooldown every f...Steam's top rated roguelike reveals huge update plans for 2024Jan 10, 2024 - PCGamesNVampire Survivors may have first exploded in popularity in 2022, but the roguelike survival game that might not actually include any vampires had an incredible year throughout 2023, and developer Poncle has even more ahead for the upcoming year. From so many planned updates that the team doubts it'll finish them all in 2024, to news of a potential online co-op mode, and even "Vampire Survivors adjacent experiments" in collaboration with other indie devs, this year promises to be just as big and bold as the last. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Bullet hell Vampire Survivor-like is free to grab if you're fast Vampire Survivors weapon evolution guide How to unlock secret characters in Vampire Survivors 2023 wrap upJan 9, 2024 - Community AnnouncementsAnd we're at the start of 2024! It's been once again a wild ride, and once again we have to thank all of you for your comments, quotes, messages, fan art, reviews, and, naturally, relentelessy keeping up with your 100% (sorry!) As always, we are incredibly thankful for the community that has built up around Vampire Survivors. We're doing another huge post like last year to talk about everything that happened and also have a look at what's to come in the future. There's a lot to cover, so we hope you enjoy! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41565381/d7b0e7f31932555dcbffc6055d95c104ad553371.gif Thank you from everyone at poncle! Even after being out for more than one year, the reception of VS keeps being absolutely mindblowing. Poncle has grown to 20 people now and we're all still busy working exclusively on VS due to the ports, engine changes, frequent updates and releases. And then, you know, the marketing team exists. We have a lot going on behind the scenes, but I'll keep the update focused on Vampire Survivors and I'll reveal a few bit in the paragraphs below! Everything that happened *Deep breath* : Bat Country, DICE Awards Action game of the year, BAFTA for Game Design, BAFTA for Best Game, Tides of the Foscari DLC, Astral Stair, Nintendo Switch port, Local Co-op, first players event, OST orchestra recordings (3rd one actually 👀), Whiteout, Adventures, first collab DLC Emergency Meeting! Missed something? Most likely, oh we have udpated the OST on Steam to be available in FLAC format for example, anyway, 2023 summary done, next! State of: Online co-op We are still investigating! To retro-fit online multiplayer in a game as simple as this, but with so much content, is still a huge challenge. We've got help now, and things are looking promising, but it's still too early for us to be able to make any promises. We'll keep giving you tiny updates until hopefully we can confirm it's actually going to happen. State of: Cross-save We had this in testing for a while now, but the real hold-up is having to put in place everything that is needed to comply with GDPR, CCPA, and whatever else is required for data protection. We had delays even just in testing the feature in public-beta because there's a lot of work to do - even if all we need to do to bridge the accounts you already have on different platforms is storing just an email and password combination. We're working on a QOL update for February and we're hoping to launch cross-save in public-beta only at the same time (Steam and Android only to start with). State of: Cross-MEDIA Yep, we're doing cross-media like the big boys for real! Back in April 2023 we announced an animated tv series in collaboration with Story Kitchen. We had of course waited for the various strikes to end before getting to it, so for now we can just say that more info is coming in 2024! Honestly we have received a lot of proposals to collaborate on cross-media projects, but rather than jumping the gun we have preferred to wait to find partn...Bullet hell Vampire Survivor-like is free to grab if you're fastJan 2, 2024 - PCGamesN20 Minutes Till Dawn is one of those indie gems that most players will likely miss, but if you're a fan of Vampire Survivors, this one might be worth putting on your radar. Luckily, you can get a free copy of 20 Minutes Till Dawn for a limited time to see if it's your cup of tea, but you'll have to snatch it up fast. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Vampire Survivors weapon evolution guide How to unlock secret characters in Vampire Survivors Vampire Survivors teams up with Among Us for out-of-this-world DLC DLC & Patch 1.8.206Dec 18, 2023 - Community Announcementsv1.8.206 Tweaks - Seal 2 power-up now gives 2 seals per rank instead of 1 - Fixed Area and Duration scaling of Fuwalafuwaloo - Bug fixes from previous version - For more information on Adventures please see: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1794680/view/3870343609927647849?l=english Emergency Meeting DLC info Content: 9 playable characters 15 new weapons (of which 7 evolutions) A new large stage A new Adventure 6 brand new music tracks 20 in-game-only achievements Out now https://store.steampowered.com/app/2690330/Vampire_Survivors_Emergency_Meeting/ FAQs Main FAQs: https://poncle.games/emergency-meeting.html How to start the DLC? The new stage will appear right away at the bottom of the Stage Selection menu. You'll see 20 new entries in the Unlocks menu to guide you through the rest of the content. Otherwise, if you've played the Dairy Plant at least once, you'll also be able to play the "Emergency Meeting" Adventure from the adventures menu. Will the main game keep receiving free updates and content? Yes, DLCs will always be purely extra content in terms of Stages, Monsters, Weapons, Characters etc. Items, Power-ups, game mechanics and more will continue to be added to the base game, so if you don't pick up the DLC you don't have to fear missing out. We'll keep having free updates like the recent Whiteout for example, including new base-game Adventures. The vast majority of planned updates for 2023 will be free. Does the DLC have achievements? No, there are no platform-level achievements for Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting. There are in-game achievements to unlock (in the Unlocks menu as usual), but no Xbox/Steam achievements. More info on this here: https://poncle.games/emergency-meeting.html Will you only do collabs going forward? No, we're indeed talking to a few people to make other collabs happen, but we also have our own content updates in the works, as usual. Hope you have fun with the DLC, and if not, please send us some feedback, thank you! 🙏 {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41565381/74519719c87a866e9a78a2b9e6f3b1b95ec0b024.png Great moments in PC gaming: Reaching the DPS singularity in Vampire SurvivorsDec 16, 2023 - PC GamerGreat moments in PC gaming are bite-sized celebrations of some of our favorite gaming memories... Read more.Two indie megahits combine in Vampire Survivors’ Among Us DLC, out later this monthDec 8, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunWhat happens when the biggest indie game of 2020 meets the biggest indie game of 2022? We’ll find out soon enough, as Among Us is headed to Vampire Survivors in a piece of DLC titled Emergency Meeting. Read more The Among Us crewmates are coming to Vampire Survivors as its developer booms 'no realm or plane of reality is off limits'Dec 7, 2023 - PC GamerPoncle have announced a new DLC for our best roguelike of 2022 : Vampire Survivors , in collaboration with Innersloth's Among Us. This new DLC called Emergency Meeting is set to arrive on PC on December 18, 2023... Read more.Vampire Survivors next bit of DLC is a highly-suspicious collab with Among UsDec 7, 2023 - VG247No matter which indie game you look at, Among Us seems to be everywhere, as the violent beans are now making their way to Vampire Survivors. It's no secret that Vampire Survivors was one of 2022's best games, and the last year has just seen improvement after improvement, like the new free story mode. Yesterday, during Day of the Devs' Game Awards stream, developer poncle announced its next bit of DLC, and it's a bit of a doozy: aptly titled Emergency Meeting, this next bit of paid content for the unique bullet hell game features the tiny, funny cast of Among Us. You'll have nine "totally trustworthy new characters" to choose from, which are basically just different coloured Among Us beans, and there'll be 15 new weapons too. You can check out the amazingly animated reveal trailer below! Each Among Us character has unique abilities, like Ghost Lino who can float through walls, and can't receive damage, though apparently can't deal damage either, and Guardian Pina, who boosts the defence of all nearby allies. Weapons wise, there's the Report! weapon which blasts enemies away with "supermassive sound waves," and you can "drop duplicitous foes to their doom with Just Vent." Read more Vampire Survivors teams up with Among Us for out-of-this-world DLCDec 6, 2023 - PCGamesNVampire Survivors is expanding once again, as developer Poncle reveals the arcade-style game's upcoming downloadable content. Coming as a surprise crossover with multiplayer social deduction game Among Us, the DLC will launch you into space to play as one of the iconic bean-shaped Crewmates. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Vampire Survivors weapon evolution guide The best Vampire Survivors build 2022's biggest breakout indie game gets new, free story mode Adventures + Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting DLC on Steam Dec 18thDec 6, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsAdventures?! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41565381/3e3a3d679fe4ab6e18da2d422b22489e5e232a2f.png The patch is available right now and contains: 1 relic, Atlas Gate: Enables base game Adventures. Found in Boss Rash, minute 7, only after seeing the Yellow Sign. 1 new achievement for obtaining the Atlas Gate (in-game only. Will be added to the list on Steam together with the next content patch, your 100% is safe for the rest of the year!) 2 base game Adventures 1 Adventure for the Legacy of the Moonspell DLC 🌹 Adventures are self-contained, mini story-modes that remix the game's content. FAQs: https://poncle.games/adventures-faq Aside from providing deep lore 💀, their main goal is actually to give you an excuse to play VS when you feel like it, but have already unlocked everything the game has to offer. Or maybe because you want to have the feeling of starting fresh, with a different set of weapons, without actually remaining behind with the progression of the base game. Or maybe because you just got a new DLC and would like to do a full-immersion experience in it, as a standalone piece, rather than a part of the main game. Because of all these reasons, please keep sharing your feedback in the Discord, so we can make tweaks and see how to evolve the feature going forward! Please know that there are no platform (Steam, Xbox, etc.) achievements for Adventures, but you can unlock base game content from them as normal (eg. if an Adventure sends you to Astral Stair, you can loot the relics in there and unlock them ahead of the standard game progression) Things that unlock new game mechanics, like Relics, Arcanas, unlocked Power-Ups, and pickups count, carry over to Adventures. We have 2+1 adventures for now: - Two are unlocked by collecitng the Atlas Gate relic mentioned above. - Then there's the Legacy of the Moonspell adventure that gets unlocked if you have the relative DLC. DLC Adventures becomes accessible only after visiting the Dairy Plant once. For more information and details on Adventures, for example on how and why to Ascend an adventure after completing it, please refer to the FAQ: https://poncle.games/adventures-faq Atlas Gate Achievement We didn't add a Steam achievement just for the Atlas Gate, your 100% is safe for the rest of 2023! Our future free content patch -that is still top secret- will add a handful of achievements instead, and we'll bundle the Atlas Gate platform-achievement with those. v1.8.200 Tweaks and fixes - Locked characters can now be previewed in Character Selection (Secret characters aren't shown until the Forbidden Scrolls relic is found) - Added filters to the Collection page. You can now see easily what you need to unlock Queen Sigma for example. - Tweaked Whiteout bosses' HP pool - Fixed Whiteout treasure chests not containing evos - Fixed Celestial Voulge not being available in Super Candybox II Turbo - Reduced self-harm from Muramasa - Fixed Millionaire's projectiles not being affected by the direction faced by the player Va...Would you nominate Vampire Survivors for "Labor of Love" in the Steam Awards?Nov 25, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsIt's been another crazy year here at poncle working on Vampire Survivors, and as usual it's thanks to you all if we can keep doing that while also having fun! This year isn't over yet anyway, we still have update 1.8 to release, together with a (very little) extra bit of content that isn't even available in the public beta version yet. If you think we've done enough, it would be great to get a nomination for "Labor of Love" in the Steam Awards please! If you think we should do more instead, no problem, hopefully in 2024 we'll get there! I'm going to share our Chaos Roadmap just below, to tease how much more we're planning to add in the future 👀 When it comes to planning new content, I'm not a fan of big, perfect, highly detailed roadmaps, as it's often straight up impossible to foresee all problems that might occur during development (did you happen to hear about a huge software company trying to screw over game developers recently?) Even internally, we use a big list of stuff we know we want to do, but we don't put that in order or on a timeline. So here's our Chaos Roadmap, a highly cryptic list of all future updates that are getting cooked behind the scenes: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41565381/1d6f9f770df1f529748d966b82775bed38c24895.png Wondering what the heck MAZERELLA is? Sorry, my lips are sealed. Wondering which one will be next? Me too haha Thank you all once again, and hope to see you in here again soon for the Adventures update! - LucaVampire Survivors is getting a free story mode with "deep lore lmao"Nov 5, 2023 - VG247Vampire Survivors, one of the best indies of 2022, is apparently getting a story mode, and it'll cost you nothing at all. No one could have predicted Vampire Survivors, a pretty simple game that predominantly involves you walking around trying not to get hit, would still be here almost two years later pushing out continuously good updates. Yet here we are, with the latest announcement that the roguelike is getting a story mode called "Adventures." According to an FAQ, Adventures are "self-contained miniature story modes that reset and remix the game's content, following the Survivors cast on a series of wacky sidequests. "Each Adventure will offer a unique progression path, giving players an opportunity to start from scratch and face custom challenges with a limited arsenal - without losing precious unlocks in the main game." No specific release date was provided on the Adventures 1.8 update, though it is meant to be coming soon, and will be available on all platforms. Best of all, it's free (other than a redacted line about your soul, or something)! Though there is a note that "some Adventures are expansions to DLC content, and require you to own the relevant DLC on the platform you're playing on." Read more Vampire Survivors Adventures update adds story modes, defying God and ManNov 3, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunVampire Survivors is getting an Adventures update that will add "self-contained miniature story modes that reset and remix the game's content, following the Survivor's cast on a series of wacky sidequests". That's according to developer Poncle, who are clearly in a whimsical mood this week. After all, if there's one thing this game about auto-massacring ever larger crowds of kamikaze night creatures has been lacking, it's some proper narrative context. Read more 2022's biggest breakout indie game gets new, free story modeNov 3, 2023 - PCGamesNOne of the best indie game success stories of 2022 is getting even better soon, as Vampire Survivors introduces a story mode. No, I'm not joking. After many, many months of developer Poncle making light of the idea that players love Vampire Survivors for its deep, rich lore, actual narrative-driven Vampire Survivors Adventures are coming with its beautifully named 'Deeplorable update' in patch 1.8 very soon. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Vampire Survivors weapon evolution guide Vampire Survivors cheats Best Vampire Survivors power ups Vampire Survivors' next update adds a mini-campaign mode as well as what's always been missing: 'A whole bunch of deep lore lmao'Nov 3, 2023 - PC Gamer2022's roguelike of the year and eternal sovereign of my heart, Poncle's Vampire Survivors, has announced its next major patch. The 1.8 Adventures update is due to release in a few weeks, and brings with it barely explained additions like remixed content, a new "sort of mini campaign" mode for members of the Vampire Survivors cast, and most important of all: "a whole bunch of deep lore lmao.".. Read more.