Review: Vampire Survivors – Kiss Healthy Sleep Goodbye With This Must-Play Roguelike

Something to sink your teeth into.

Vampire Survivors is a singular game. Kind of a roguelike, kind of an arcade game, kind of a bullet hell, but at the same time nothing like what you probably think of when those genres come to mind. After all, there’s a reason it captured the hearts and minds of gamers and won handfuls of awards on other platforms in 2022. Jam-packed with rewarding structures, satisfying sound design, cheeky nods to the much more senior vampire-killing franchise that inspired it, and loads of secrets, it’ll sink its fangs into you after just one round.

The most common way we’ve heard Vampire Survivors described is, “A bullet hell where you are the bullet hell,” but that’s only half of the story. You start each level with one attack. They vary from classic stuff you’d expect from a Castlevania game, like a whip, a cross-shaped boomerang, or a throwing axe to more goofy stuff like the aroma of garlic or giant minecarts. There are dozens of them, and each attack has its own strengths, weaknesses, and properties; garlic, for example, creates a miasma of deadly garlic breath, damaging any enemy that dares enter your personal space. The whip slashes out in front of the direction that the player’s facing, dealing high damage to anything in its range.

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