Vampire Survivors News

Vampire Survivors is getting an animated TV adaptation

Vampire Survivors, aka the best game of 2022, might be getting an animated television series. Developers Poncle have announced that they've partnered with Story Kitchen, a media company headed a Sonic movie co-producer and the creator of John Wick, to make it happen.

Vampire Survivors creator Luca Galante of Poncle is partnering with Story Kitchen to turn the game into an animated TV series.

Per Deadline, the hunt is now for a writer to pen the adaption of the comedic gothic horror series. The show is also being shopped around to animated TV networks.

“The most important thing in Vampire Survivors is the story, so it’s a dream come true to see what started as a little indie game I made on my weekends come to life as an animated TV show,” said Galante in a statement. “It’s also great to be partnering up with such experienced and talented people to make the show. I do wonder if they’ve realized that there isn’t a single vampire in Vampire Survivors, though.”

Vampire Survivors, much like your character in the game itself, just keeps getting more powerful. Next up for the cult hit survival game and BAFTA game of the year winner is a Vampire Survivors animated series, made in a collaboration between the game's creator poncle and media company Story Kitchen, which is headed up by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad and Sonic movie co-producer Dmitri Johnson.

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Vampire Survivors is being made into an animated series

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Plans for next patch + Vampire Survivors animated show coming!

Small patch coming in May

Now that the second DLC Tides of the Foscari is out (big thanks to everyone who played it and gave us feedback!), we wanted to give an update on what free patches and updates we are working on and some other news!

The first part is that we are working on a smaller patch that should launch in May (will have smaller additions and fixes, like a more detailed map for DLC stages) and we are also working on our next bigger patch, v1.5, which will be similar in size to the Bat Country update (new stage, relics etc.).
While we don’t have a firm date for this v1.5 patch yet, we are aiming for sometime this summer to give the team a bit more time after the busy DLC launch period. As always, we will try something a bit different with this patch!

Animated show coming!

The other Vampire Survivors news we wanted to share is that we are working on an animated series! If you had told me this a year ago, I wouldn't have believed you. I still don't believe you, but it's actually happening.

Because we're a small company and barely have any idea about how to make games, not to mention TV shows, we are partnering up with a company called Story Kitchen (their team includes Derek Kolstad, who is the writer/creator of John Wick, and Dmitri M. Johnson, who produced the Sonic films) to make the Vampire Survivors show.

As we all know, the most important thing in Vampire Survivors has always been the story, so we are very excited for this and we hope you are too! It’s still early days for the show, but I can already say that we will be involved so that we can ensure it doesn’t have any vampires (probably) and they will only cast the finest garlic. While we will be involved, this won't affect game development in any way.

Thanks to everyone who's been asking for this since the Moonspell trailer: sometimes bombarding the socials with requests actually works! :)

More info on Deadline.com

As always, thanks so much for playing Vampire Survivors and sticking with us!
Luca