Oh No, Vampire Crawlers' Gameplay Trailer Suggests It's Going To Suck Up All Our Time

Sink your teeth in

by Alana Hagues 2 hours ago

Poncle has just released a brand new gameplay trailer for its upcoming Vampire Survivors spin-off, *deep breath* Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors, which is coming out some time in 2026.

And it probably should come with a health warning, because the chaotic blobber-inspired (that's a term used to describe a number of first-person RPGs from the '80, broadly) dungeon crawling rogue-lite is going to be a huge time sink, just like Vampire Survivors.

Anyway, Vampire Crawlers will introduce your vampire hunting friends to turn-based combat, brand new abilities, new ways to use existing abilities, and... digging?

We've also got a sneak peak at some familiar locations, a museum, and other buildings that you'll likely need to use to progress. And yet somehow, it all seems to come together with that same moreish Vampire Survivors flair.

More details will be coming soon on the game, but for now, we just want to know when to take some time off work to sink our teeth into the game.

Are you looking forward to Vampire Crawlers? Survive in the comments and let us know.

Alana has been with Nintendo Life since 2022, and while RPGs are her first love, Nintendo is a close second. She enjoys nothing more than overthinking battle strategies, characters, and stories. She also wishes she was a Sega air pirate.

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AmplifyMJ
1 hour ago

The good thing is, your work necessitates sinking your teeth in to this @nintendolife 😅 time off indeed 😉

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gojiguy
1 hour ago

I'll never understand why people like VS. It's a game where the goal is to practically not play. It just plays itself. So mindless.

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JohnnyMind
1 hour ago

Keeps on looking pretty cool to me - looking forward to seeing and hearing more of this and then giving it a try whenever it comes out next year (should finally play Vampire Survivors myself in the meantime)!

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Pillowpants
1 hour ago

Can't wait for this one! I'm still doing some runs of Vampire Survivors every now and then.

@gojiguy, the game has a lot more challenge if you up the ante, such as inverse mode, or limiting the amount of weapons you pick up. So it's definitely not as black/white as you make it seem to be. I most certainly never have the idea that the game plays itself, par a few runs. Yes, it can be extremely easy, but to get there, you need to have some luck and definitely some skill at avoiding enemies until you are too OP to be able to stand still. But, to each their own!

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foursider
1 hour ago

I've put in over 100hrs in Vampire Survivors, and am still playing it.

So, regarding this new game from the Poncle team... Hush up and take my money!!

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N8tiveT3ch
1 hour ago

I love a good suck... and I'm ready for it.

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Joeynator3000
1 hour ago

Dunno I'll go for this, we'll see...not a huge dungeon crawler fan, or whatever you'd call this type of game.

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Markatron84
1 hour ago

@gojiguy this is the worst take on Vampire Survivors I've ever heard/seen. It's not even a hot take; it's a take that was left to fester on a sun-baked Nevada highway for weeks on end with the odd 18-wheeler further flattening it in between coyote gnawings.

Vampire Survivors is as easy or as hard as you want to make it.