Vampire Survivors is coming full circle with Ode to Castlevania DLC

It’s nary concealed that Vampire Survivors, nan slug hellhole roguelike astonishment hit, was influenced heavy by nan Castlevania franchise. The developers astatine Poncle are now honoring that inspiration pinch a immense DLC battalion launching connected October 31.

The Steam page for Ode to Castlevania is now unrecorded for wish-listing, but it’ll besides beryllium disposable connected each platforms: Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.

The Ode to Castlevania DLC adds fundamentally every Castlevania characteristic to nan crippled — aliases astatine slightest complete 20 of them — and features much than 40 caller weapons, a caller stage, and astir 30 soundtrack covers. It’s truthful large that Poncle has a mini extremity for players: don’t binge it each astatine once.

Best of all, it’ll only costs $4. Granted that’s only $1 little than nan afloat game, but nan DLC is truthful large that nan developers said nan pricing felt “fair.” The characteristic additions unsocial much than double nan magnitude you’ll get from nan guidelines game, not including concealed characters and nan dozens much that travel pinch DLC. Vampire Survivors is wide 1 of nan champion games connected nan marketplace successful position of bang for nan buck, truthful moreover pinch nan further costs of nan DLC, it’s an astonishing deal.

Vampire Survivors has been compared to Castlevania rather a spot since it released successful 2021. At nan time, immoderate said Poncle — which was erstwhile conscionable developer Luca Galante — went excessively far, pinch sprites that were rip-offs. Galante told PC Gamer that he made judge not to straight-up transcript Castlevania, but admitted that he sewage galore of them from an plus pack. He past went and recovered artists to emulate nan style and redo immoderate of nan offending sprites — though he near immoderate worldly in.

“Vampire Survivors would person been a very different crippled hadn’t it been influenced by Castlevania successful nan first place, truthful this is straight-up nan meaning of a dream coming true,” said nan developers successful a post announcing nan DLC. “This is not a modular DLC pack. This is simply a ceremony of this humanities crippled series, an incredible, full-circle infinitesimal successful which we person invested each nan power we could muster, and past some!”

This isn’t nan first time Vampire Survivors has teamed up pinch Castlevania developer Konami. Poncle released nan Operation Guns DLC, which added Contra characters and weapons to nan game.