As part of its second-anniversary celebrations, Poncle has announced the Vampire Survivors 'Ode to Castlevania' DLC, which will land on Switch on 31st October (just in time for Halloween).
As you might expect, the upcoming expansion is all about Konami's monster-slaying series, from which Poncle has taken more than a little inspiration for its roguelike, it's fair to say. The DLC packs in over 20 new characters, 40 new weapons, 30+ fresh music tracks and the game's biggest stage yet.
All this will be available on 31st October at 11am GMT / 12pm CET / 4am PDT for $3.99 / €3.99 / £2.99 — which feels pretty reasonable for that much stuff.
If the above trailer hasn't whet your appetite, you can check out the following screens from the DLC's Steam page to get another taste of what's in store.
If you haven't dived into Vampire Survivors yet, how? We called Poncle's roguelike a "must-play" in our 9/10 review last year, and this update might just drag us back in for even more sleepless nights of 'just, one more run...'
Will you be picking up this DLC later this month? Let us know in the comments.
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Wow, the game was already a huge Castlevania homage, it's kind of weird to see the "knock-off" Belmont stand-ins appearing next to the actual Belmont characters in the same scene lol.
It's cool though, the game is good fun, and it's nice to see Konami collaborate with indie devs who are obviously huge fans of Castlevania
A Castlevania DLC for Castlevania?
I've enjoyed Vampire Survivors immensely, till my dumb brother pointed out just how ripped off the enemy pixel art is from Classic Castlevania. Now I can't unsee it! They even act the same way!
I was waiting for this and pretty sure it would come eventually, but Im beyond happy about the actual scope of this DLC. Would not have dreamed of literally all mainline characters (and even non-mainline, as it seems), that amount of weapons and so many music tracks.
The only real potential problem is if there might be too many whips in the item pool now...
This is so cool, looking forward to eventually playing Vampire Survivors (already have it and the previous DLCs, just haven't played them yet) even more than I already was!
That's some mighty strange timing: I decided only tonight to rewatch the anime on Netflix, and was on the second episode when I came across the news here. I've been looking for an excuse to boot up the game too.
The absolute depth of Castlevania content there is incredible, I was thinking it might be time to get back into Vampire Survivors and this is truly the best time.
I doubt they can top this DLC, I wonder if we'll see a physical release for this soon?
"Just when I thought I was out..."
It's so great to see that they're still adding more DLC this this game. I can't say I will dive in on day 1, but I will dive into this DLC at some point. That's for certain!
I always come back when there's a new DLC released, then lose a few weeks of my life to the game again.
I need to get back into it, I never wound up picking up the last DLC pack.
I guess I can't keep avoiding this game anymore! Keep the Castlevania coming!
A beautiful animated trailer for one of the least beautiful games.
Pretty cool though! It's nice to see the game do well even if it's not for me, and the DLC looks substantial for quite a small price!
About dang time, I was wondering when this would happen after the Contra crossover dropped thinking Castlevania was the more obvious one. Haha
Trailer is hype as hell, I didn't get hooked into the game as some others did, I got 5 hours out of it and I enjoyed my time well enough. This DLC may convince to return to the game.
@OstianOwl
That DLC made it obvious that this had to be coming. Why would they make DLC based on another Konami franchise, and not the very obvious one - Castlevania? Probably as some sort of joke/teaser.
Although I must say that in my opinion the Contra DLC is the best one so far. Fun weapons, characters etc.
OK, now hopefully we can get some Goemon DLC next.
They did it, they got there. That's kind of incredible.
Look, I have no love for this style of game so I must struggle to bite my tongue here. I'm just not entertained by flashing lights, slot machines and getting treats for ringing the bell.
BUT there's obviously so much love here for Castlevania, and always has been since the beginning of Vampire Survivors, and that trailer is just so god damn incredible. I'm mostly just stoked for the dev who by all accounts seems like an ok guy?
Plus the more Castlevania DLC sells the more likely Konami lets someone make a real Castlevania game. That's the kind of gambling I CAN get behind.
This is awesome! I still haven't finished Castlevania Dominus collection and next week we also have the Blasphemous 2 update. Guess I'll have plenty to play the remainder of the year.
Incidentally, is this the first instance of playable (or so much as onscreen) Sonia Belmont in decades?
The game's characters, weapons and enemies are such a blatant ripoff of Castlevania already, they may as well make it official by making a deal with Konami.
This was a decent game, but this genre is so saturated, this one couldn’t keep me hooked. Even recently tried getting kids to play it, and they went back to their Roblox version of it.
Vampire Survivor to Castlevania: "When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master."
I can't quit VS, no matter how hard I try... it's so dang good
But... I want to stop playing this game. As if Contra wasn't enough, now Konami's franchise that aligns better with this concept is here? Uggggh. Nice nod to using "Everyone is here" though. Guess I'll look forward to this.
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