Vampire Survivors News

We've been expecting Vampire Survivors' online co-op update since it entered beta branch testing in August, but Poncle's weekly feature teases have been hinting at some extra surprises since the start of October. Today, update 1.14 has finally landed—and it brought a bonus Balatro-themed expansion with it...
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• [p] 'Ante Chamber' : a little expansion based on BALATRO[/p]
• [p] Featuring 4 characters, 4 weapons with their respective evolution, a new stage, and a remix of the Balatro main theme[/p]
• [p] Survarots: a new game mechanic, also available in the base game, to alter character stats and abilities [/p]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3929770


[p]This is a list of gameplay changes compared to a standard local co-op run:[/p]

• [p]Batch level up - Depending on the player count you will only see level up after all players have leveled up. So on 4 players the level up screen will only show every 4 levels.[/p]
• [p]DLC - You will only be able to use DLC online if every player owns that DLC. We're retro-fitting Online into an originally single player game written in JS by a solo dev, so there are a lot of technical issues we have to move around or worry about later, one of which is the way that DLC expansions are handled.[/p]
• [p]Free Roam - In online you are not restricted to the same screen, you can all freely move around the stage independently. (Note: You will be pulled into a boss room if any player walks into it)[/p]
• [p]Spectator mode - When you die in multiplayer you can use the mouse to jump to players who are still alive. You also respawn where they are if you are spectating them.[/p]
• [p]Achievements - You will have the choice at the end of the run to carry over any achievements earned in that run back into your own save file.[/p]
• [p]Speed up - Disabled in online.[/p]
• [p]Pause menu - To help flow, when you pause, you do not pause for everyone else, you just get a small window of invincibility[/p][p] [/p]

• [p] A gamba themed stage: Westwoods[/p]
• [p] A labyrinth themed stage: Mazerella[/p]
• [p] A new relic that lets you play Party Mode (play with up to 4 characters at the same time)[/p]
• [p] 2 new playable characters[/p]
• [p] 2 new weapons with their respective evolutions[/p]
• [p] 1 new Character Morph[/p]
• [p] 1 new PowerUp[/p]
• [p] 3 new Darkanas[/p]
• [p] Survarot game mechanic[/p]

[p]What are Survarots?
Survarots are a new form of power creep that is currently usable by the character Secretino and all the Ante Chamber characters. They are vaguely similar to Arcana cards, but are themed after characters from Vampire Survivors and provide different types of bonuses.

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/3210350/
An expansion for the Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania Expansion! Our Castlevania Collab DLC is getting even bigger, at no price change, and you'll be able to find all this new stuff after the update:

• [p] 16 new secret characters[/p]
• [p] 3 new weapons + evos[/p]
• [p] 13 new weapon unions[/p]
• [p] 1 new adventure[/p]
• [p] 12 new music tracks[/p]

[h3]Ante Chamber[/h3][p]- To unlock the content of Ante Chamber: find the special merchant in Moongolow and buy the Joker Disk for 50k gold coins. Proceed with the chain of unlocks that starts in the new stage, Ante Chamber.

[/p][h3]Ode to Castlevania[/h3][p]- To unlock the new content of Ode to Castlevania: the conditions to unlock the new characters will appear in the SECRETS menu after you have 'completed' the main UNLOCKS of the dlc.

[/p][h3]Mazerella[/h3]

- Reach Level 80 in Inverse Dairy Plant to unlock Mazerella.
- Find the Chaos Lazulia in Mazerella to unlock the morphing ability for Bianca Ramba.
- Find the Wax Fetish in Mazerella to unlock the Preserve power-up (gives a chance to not consume reroll/skip/banish)

[h3]Westwoods[/h3]

- Find a total of 23 Little Clovers to unlock Westwoods
- Find the Magi-Stone in Westwoods and get it to Level 7 to unlock it
- Play/pay the Westwoods fortune wheel to be able to move further and then find a Karoma's Mana to unlock it permanently
- Evolve the Magi-Stone (with Karoma's Mana) to get 500 coins eh
- Survive 20 minutes in Westwoods to unlock Chula-Reh
- Find the Masquerade relic in Westwoods to unlock Party Mode
- Reach a bonus of 999% Luck with Chula-Re to unlock Darkana XVIII - Call of a Mad Moon

[h3]Misc[/h3]

- Defeat 251096 "shooting enemies" and bullets to unlock the weapon Ammo Appalate
- Evolve (with maxed Bracer) Ammo Appalate to unlock Zi'Appunta Belpaese
- Discover 10 Golden Treasure Chests in a single run with Zi'Appunta, by destroying the totems only her can find, to unlock Darkana V - Pale Diamond Incursion
- Survive 30 minutes in Green Acres with no active weapons to unlock Darkana XVIII - Victorian Horror

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[/p][p]A quick reminder that the new wiki for Vampire Survivors is available at http://vampire.survivors.wiki and already contains a lot of information about patch 1.14!
Completely free of advertisement, banners, and all that sort of crap that gets in the way; just information, a user friendly website, and it's also fully functional on mobile.
Once again a huge thank you to all of our Wiki helpers on Discord our partners Weird Gloop for putting this wiki together, for their support, and for their guidance![/p]


- Steam : everything available today
- PlayStation: everything available today
- Nintendo Switch: everything available on October 31st
- Xbox: everything available on October 31st
- Mobile: new content available today, online arriving in November

Thanks for all your support when we announced our official board game back in August! We're pleased to say the Kickstarter is now live so you can pledge and be the first to play when it launches.

PlayStation Cross-Save:
we're waiting for a potential policy change from PS; we'll get cross-save as soon as there is a policy we're happy to agree to. We don't know their timelines of course, but our account managers at PS are keeping us updated and are already helping anyway they can!

Online Cross-Play:
it won't be available at launch due to the additional bureaucracy needed to make it work. We'll try to add it in a future patch.
Cross-Play with PS will also be subject to the same policy as Cross-Save, so it might eventually be delayed further than other platforms.

Online on the free mobile versions:
it will be available after purchasing at least 1 DLC

Online on Apple+:
we're trying to add it, but there's a lot of bureaucracy involved, so we can't say for sure if or when it will be available

Playing Online with random players:
there are no plans to have lists of public rooms or anything similar; due to how chaotic the game can become, the risk of continuously encountering griefers is really high (not to mention that a lot of requests for public room came from people who explicitly said they wanted to have fun at the expense of other players, while the spirit of online co-op is to play together)

Playing Online with Expansions:
currently all players in a room have to own a DLC to be able to play contents of that DLC online.
We're aiming to change this so that only one player needs the DLC, but since that involves a lot of technical work we had to postpone this to a future patch.


For our next patch, that will most likely arrive in Q1 next year, we'll be focusing on QOL improvements to better manage the avalanche of available content and the late-game on-screen chaos, performance improvements for less powerful platforms, save slots (finally), and of course a bit more content. We'll try to reach the end of the Chaos Roadmap by the end of 2026 🤞

Before the next patch though, we have another TWO, SPECIAL, cards to reveal!

Hope to see you in a couple of weeks on our Discord or socials to see what hides behind card #6 ːdireyesː

[p]At the start of October we have started to reveal what to expect from the next update of Vampire Survivors, like Online Co-op and Westwoods.

If you've been following the Steam news or public-beta, then of course you already knew all of that, and was probably expecting "Mazerella" to be publicly revealed today and instead... it's an upgrade of Ode to Castlevania!




Ode to Castlevania already has a lot of playable characters, twenty to be exact ( suuure 😂 ), and this update will add 16 more secret characters, here's the list:
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1. [p]Hugh Baldwin[/p]
2. [p]Morris Baldwin[/p]
3. [p]Annette[/p]
4. [p]Tera[/p]
5. [p]Atlantis Shrine Wizard[/p]
6. [p]Drolta Zuentes[/p]
7. [p]Astarte[/p]
8. [p]Actrise[/p]
9. [p]Zephyr[/p]
10. [p]Jiangshi[/p]
11. [p]Persephone[/p]
12. [p]Slogra & Gaibon, also Gaibon & Slogra[/p]
13. [p]Genya Arikado (never heard of this guy before)[/p]
14. [p]Fake Trio (eh?)[/p]
15. [p]Ruler Sword (excuse me what)[/p]
16. [p]Stone Skull (wtf)[/p]

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Well, they're not so secret now eh. We're also adding in a few new weapons and their respective Evolution/Union:
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1. [p]Knuckle Duster -> Lapiste Tepisto[/p]
2. [p]Anura -> Dark Frogamorphosis[/p]
3. [p]Pocket Knife -> Claimh Solais[/p]

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"Dark Lord Soma" skin, as a prize for completing the new 7-chapter Ode to Castlevania Adventure

And finally, we tought it was a bit sad to have all those weapons you can buy from the Master Librarian to not have an evolution, and so we've given them a special, exaggerated Union with the base Vampire Survivors Evos:
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1. [p] Icebrand -> Ninth Gate[/p]
2. [p] Valmanway -> Million Cut [/p]
3. [p] Neutron Bomb -> Carnage Heart[/p]
4. [p] Svarog Statue -> Darkness Illusion[/p]
5. [p] Dark Rift -> Legacy of Death: Soul River[/p]
6. [p] Goth Missile -> Dies Irae[/p]
7. [p] Hydrostorm -> Hydro Pump Climax[/p]
8. [p] Summon Spirit -> Spirit of Light[/p]
9. [p] Grand Cross -> Arch Angle[/p]
10. [p] Soul Steal -> Power of Lire[/p]
11. [p] Aurablast -> Kardia Phlegeton[/p]
12. [p] Sword Brothers -> Vjaja Sisters[/p]
13. [p] Spirit Tornado -> Venus Crescent[/p]

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And of course there are new music covers!
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1. [p] Anti-Soul Mysteries Lab by Evelyn Lark[/p]
2. [p] The Discolored Wall by Evelyn Lark [/p]
3. [p] Calling From Heaven by Evelyn Lark [/p]
4. [p] Clockwork by Keygen Church[/p]
5. [p] Young Nobleman of Madness by Keygen Church [/p]
6. [p] New Messiah by Keygen Church[/p]
7. [p] Ruined Castle Corridor by Filippo Vicarelli[/p]
8. [p] Dance of Gold by Filippo Vicarelli[/p]
9. [p] Wandering Ghosts by Filippo Vicarelli[/p]
10. [p] Out of Time by Daniele Zandara[/p]
11. [p] The Treasury Room by Daniele Zandara[/p]
12. [p] Castlevania 64 Medley of Illusions by Daniele Zandara
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TLDR:
16 new characters
3 new weapons + evos
13 new weapon unions
1 new adventure
12 new music tracks



We tried to squeeze in as much stuff as possible, taking into consideration the feedback and requests we got from fans, and of course that was actually possible with the partnership we got with Konami.

In terms of characters, we've actually tried to go for some even deeper cuts, but we could only go so far with the current licenses (in other words, if popular/obvious/interesting characters are missing, is only because of the complexity of getting the new licenses we needed for them was prohibiting for both us and our collaborators at Konami).

This update to Ode to Castlevania is scheduled to drop together with patch 1.14, that we are aiming to release globally next week.
Unofrtunately we already know that we won't be able to simship Online to all platforms, but the new single player content should arrive on time. We'll keep you posted on potential delays and release dates for other platforms on Discord and our socials.

We have two more cards to reveal of this 5-part update (okay okay, one of them is just Mazerella...) so please stay tuned for more reveals, there are still surprises, for everyone.
Stop datamining. Be the bullet hell! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)








[/p][p][/p][h2]VS news roundup[/h2][p][/p][p]Here's a quick catchup on other Vampire Survivors projects we're working on, too:[/p][p][/p][h3]Lots of bundles with games we like[/h3][p][/p][p]You might have noticed we've started popping up in some Steam bundles recently. It's an easy way to show support for the games we enjoy at poncle, plus give VS fans an extra discount on them when they purchase[/p][p](No, we will not only be partnering with games that have the word 'Pit' in the title)[/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p]Our bundle with Two Point Museum goes one step further, with a free Vampire Survivors update available in-game:[/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

• [p]Experts can explore the world of Vampire Survivors, visiting three stages: the Mad Forest, Inlaid Library and Capella Magna[/p]
• [p]Collect 10 new exhibits, including Mythical Gear and Digiverse Relics[/p]
• [p]Entertain new visitable VIP, Poe Ratcho[/p]
• [p]Serve up tasty Floor Chicken Casserole in the Cafeteria[/p]
• [p]Decorate with new items, wallpaper and flooring to create your very own Mad Forest or Inlaid Library[/p]

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[h3]Vampire Survivors board game Kickstarter coming soon[/h3]
[p][/p][p]The team at Grey Fox Games are still working hard on our VS board game. The Kickstarter begins soon, but if you sign up for updates here you'll get a deck box added to your pledge for free[/p][p][/p]




[h3]Vampire Survivors: The Grimoire coming Oct 2026[/h3][p][/p][p]Thanks to everyone for supporting our first ever official Vampire Survivors book. We've decided to delay the launch to next year so we can expand the scope and world of the book, and have brought on Steph Sterling, who wrote our Bestiary entries in the game, to help us get things right[/p][p][/p][p]You can pre-order your copy here[/p][p][/p]

Online video games! They're the future of the medium! Or, I guess they're already here, but still, online co-op is very much in Vampire Survivor's future. It's a feature that's been promised for a little while now, and developer Poncle have shared a little look at it, as well as a confirmation as to when you can expect it: autumn! This autumn, to be precise, which we're currently experiencing, though a more specific window of time wasn't provided.

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Vampire Survivors is aptly named—because of all the vampire stuff, sure, but more because it stubbornly refuses to die. With an announcement trailer released this morning, Vampire Survivors developer Poncle began a weeks-long teaser rollout to preview the additions of the upcoming 1.14 update, starting with the long-awaited online co-op mode...
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