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Vampire Survivors is a top-down survival game where you essentially just try to stay alive as long as possible while endless waves of monsters come at you from all sides.

Your weapons and abilities are all automatic; you just need to worry about moving around the map and staying alive. Some of your abilities only fire in the direction you're facing, while others target the nearest enemy, and still others just randomly fire off and hit anything in their path.

Extra strong enemies will drop treasure chests when they die, which will give you gold and a random ability to enhance your character.

As you gain XP and level up from killing monsters, you'll get an option to pick your next ability. Choose wisely; you're given three random abilities and you can only choose one. Make sure you pick something that will help you survive long enough to level up again.

You fight until you're eventually overwhelmed. Then you pick a new character (or the same character if you like) and start over again. The more gold you earn, the more core stats you can boost from the main menu, which will give you a starting advantage in your next playthrough.

There's a timer on the top of the screen that shows how long you're surviving. If you start to do really well, you'll unlock more levels to play. And honestly... that's pretty much it. It's just a fun game to see how long you can overcome insane odds against hordes of monsters. Pretty simple, yet rather addicting. A great way to pass the time.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Have fun! I wrote in that other message I was close to unlocking everything, right? Well, nope! Fulfilling a certain secret led me to unlock more secrets to fulfill! The rabbithole, goes on and on.

And yeah, all the DLC are great IMO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey, so... it's been two weeks. The addiction deepens. I've got the whole game on two systems now. I'm trying to use the wiki while still finding surprises lol.

This game is the shit and I thank you for driving me to it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Haha! My apologies and have fun! The last DLC (Ode to Castlevania) is one giant map you gradually unlock to it's full size!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Oh man I can't even imagine how much is squirreled away if you're still finding stuff like that, damn! Gonna get my money's worth out of this game for sure

I also finally grabbed Balatro so it seems I'm in full dopamine mode now, see yall in a few months