There's no hiding Vampire Survivors’ links to Castlevania. The developer Luca Galante was even accused of ripping off certain Castlevania sprites during development (but these were from asset packs, not ripped from the game directly, so put down your pitchforks). And when Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania was announced as DLC, Galante made it clear just how important the series was in his success story.
"Vampire Survivors would have been a very different game hadn't it been influenced by Castlevania in the first place, so this is straight up the definition of a dream coming true," he said in a blog post. "This is not a standard DLC pack. This is a celebration of this historical game series, an incredible, full-circle moment in which we have invested all the energy we could muster and then some!"
