Vampire Survivors is getting a Castlevania expansion, but still no vampires

is likely one of the largest gaming success tales of latest years and developer Poncle hasn’t taken its foot off the gasoline. It continues to ship and expansions, and the newest is a crossover that (nearly) makes all of the sense on the earth.

Poncle has revealed a DLC based mostly on its largest inspiration, Castlevania. The studio says it’s “an all-out celebration of Konami’s iconic franchise.”

The biggest paid Vampire Survivors enlargement thus far has greater than 20 new characters, equivalent to some Belmonts and Belnades. There are dozens of extra weapons, together with eight extra whips. As a devotee of the sport’s authentic whip, I’m happy to listen to that. Alucard’s sword, spear and protect are current, as is elemental magic in a primary for Vampire Survivors. There will likely be greater than 30 new music tracks as nicely, with Poncle borrowing dozens of them from the Castlevania sequence.

What’s extra, the DLC will introduce the most important Vampire Survivors degree thus far, with an entire heap of secrets and techniques and managers to trace down. Regardless of this enlargement tying right into a sequence that’s all about vampires and vampire hunters, Vampire Survivors nonetheless received’t really characteristic any vampires — regardless that we’re “actually at Dracula’s citadel.” This lack-of-vampires bit continues to be fairly humorous.

Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania will arrive on Halloween (October 31) on PC, Nintendo Swap, Xbox, PS4, PS5 and cell. It’ll price $4.

Within the meantime, Poncle has opened up a really ‘90s-style , which is probably impressed by Castlevania: Concord of Despair. There’s additionally a that highlights a few of the sequence’ .