Vampire Survivors News

I've become besotted with Vampire Survivors since I bought it to play on my Steam Deck, but I'm now convinced developer Poncle wants to kill me. It's leaving early access next week, on October 20, and the launch version will include the previously announced Endless mode and the just unveiled Inverse mode. It's the latter that will surely spell my death...
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You've heard of the "Side B" music tracks, you've seen weird upside-down images and lines of text in the YT videos, and VS is lacking a proper reference to one of the pᴉმმԍƨϝ ƨԍcʁԍϝƨ ever to appear in a videogame, so you must have seen this one coming, right?
The new relic Gracia's Mirror will allow you to play Inverse Mode, where the stages are upside down!

It's not only a visual novelty though, as it also boosts Gold gains and Enemy Health by 200%
On top of that, enemies also grow stronger over time, making this a proper hard mode. This makes a place like the Inverted Bone Zone an absolute nightmare 💀

To make up for the huge spike in difficulty, the merchant will have an expanded inventory and will be happy to sell you additional Skips, Banishes, Rerolls, and an extra ARCANA. Buying it will increase the maximum amount of Arcanas you can carry by one.




Since the merchant respawns at every cycle if you're playing Endless, mixing it with Inverse means that you can get an extra arcana per cycle, with no limits! (Well, 22 is the limit...)



If you find the stage inversion weary on the eyes, but want to keep the gameplay changes, there's an option to disable the visual inversion.



Previous days:
Day 1: new relic Seventh Trumpet
Day 2: new skin Mask of the Red Death
Day 3: new Side B music Libro Inferno
Day 4: new skin Pugnala Provola
Day 5: UI improvements
Day 6: new Side B music Barely Staying Alive
Day 7: Vampire Survivors Original Soundtrack

The Vampire Survivors Original Soundtrack is now available on Steam!
It currently contains 25 music tracks from the game and 8 jingles, including the Treasure Opening ones,
for a total of 33 MP3 files, at 320kpbp, from Daniele Zandara, Filippo Vicarelli, and William Davies.

If When we'll add new music to VS, we'll also add it to this OST.
For starters, 3 more tracks will be added once the game is fully released on October 20th 👀
Lossless version will also be added.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2169090/Vampire_Survivors_Soundtrack

There is also a Game + Soundtrack bundle available with a 15% discount:
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/28346/Vampire_Survivors_Soundtrack_Bundle/

Fancy another preview? Here's the Side B theme for the Mad Forest stage:
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Previous days:
Day 1: new relic Seventh Trumpet
Day 2: new skin Mask of the Red Death
Day 3: new Side B music Libro Inferno
Day 4: new skin Pugnala Provola
Day 5: UI improvements
Day 6: new Side B music Barely Staying Alive

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Day 6 reveal is another perfect vampire-hunting track, Moongolow Side B, from Filippo Vicarelli! Speaking of vampires, found any yet?

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

A bit of trivia about Moon-go-low: during development, I had decided to scrap the "typical water stage" in favor of focusing on some special events, but by then Daniele had already been working on the theme for the water stage. Once he delivered, I found that theme so enthralling and inspiring that I just decided to bring back the stage and make it part of the sequence of special events, because when those synths in the second half kick in is just like stepping into another plane of existence.

Like the new tracks but getting tired of all the posts about music? Don't worry, we'll spice things up soon, that's just because we've been building up to tomorrow's reveal 👀



Previous days:
Day 1: new relic Seventh Trumpet
Day 2: new skin Mask of the Red Death
Day 3: new Side B music Libro Inferno
Day 4: new skin Pugnala Provola
Day 5: UI improvements

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Today we're going to have a quick look at some UI and QOL improvemenets, starting from the Character Selection screen, where you'll finally be able to see what stages you have completed for each character:


The list is there only if you need an excuse to play more, if you find it annoying you'll also get the option to disable it altogether and forget it ever existed:


As you can see the Options menu now supports pagination, because we're expecting plenty of new options going forward. We'll reveal a couple of new ones in the following days 👀


In the Stage Selection screen now you can easily see where you can find new relics. Finding all of them will be very important for unlocking the new content of v1.0!


Once you unlock the Magic Banger, you'll also get the option to lock your music selection, so that it will persist between runs:


On top of these there are some other minor tweaks, like explaining that you keep gold and unlocks when quitting, or that you can skip Treasure animations, including 5 item ones.



Previous days:
Day 1: new relic Seventh Trumpet
Day 2: new skin Mask of the Red Death
Day 3: new Side B music Libro Inferno
Day 4: new skin Pugnala Provola