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Kaan Serin

Vampire Survivors studio reveals a roguelike deckbuilder spin-off threatening all my free time in 2026: "We're milking this bunch of pixels like there's no tomorrow"

Vampire Crawlers key art shows a vampire holding a wine glass.

Vampire Survivors sucked up a dangerous amount of my free (and unfree!) time a few years ago, and developer Poncle's now using its Nosferatu-style powers to visit me in my late night fever dreams and threaten to do the same thing again, this time with a deckbuilding spin-off. Help.

Revealed at the Xbox Partner Preview showcase last night, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors is the exorbitantly long name of the indie dev's new spinoff, which sees the original roguelite's moreish loop, overpowered builds, in-jokes and blinding bullet hell pixels switch to a first-person lens. Vampire Crawlers is more than just a perspective shift, though.

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