Hello friends. This is a Let’s Play video of “Vampire Crawlers” demo version. Deal world-ending combos and blitz through infested dungeons! Vampire Crawlers: the turbo wildcard from Vampire Survivors is a casual, turn‑based deckbuilder with roguelite elements. Master the Turboturn™ with your own hand of cards!
When poncle accidentally redefined an entire genre with Vampire Survivors, the question was never “can they do it again?” but “what genre will they reinvent next?” – and the answer turns out to be the first-person dungeon crawler deckbuilder, of all things. Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors takes the snowballing power fantasy, screen-filling chaos, and “one more run” compulsion of the original and pours it into a turn-based card battler set inside grid-based dungeons viewed from a retro blobber perspective, complete with functioning walls (a genuine novelty for this franchise). The Turboturn system is where the magic lives: play cards in ascending mana order to build combos where each successive card multiplies the effect of the next, chaining from 2 to 10 to 20 to potentially infinite stacks of escalating destruction, and here’s the kicker – you can play as carefully and tactically as you want, or slam cards down as fast as your hands can physically move, and the outcome is always mathematically accurate either way. Familiar Vampire Survivors weapons return as cards that can be evolved through gems found by headbutting treasure chests (naturally), while returning characters from the VS roster serve as Crawlers whose unique abilities reshape your entire deck strategy. The dungeons themselves are packed with destructible light sources hiding gold, wall chicken for healing, secret relics, and the ever-present need to find a shovel to dig into the next floor – which, in true poncle fashion, will probably take place in the clouds for no discernible reason. Already sitting at 170,000 wishlists with a demo that reviewers are calling dense enough to lose five hours in, this is the first in what poncle promises will be a series of spin-offs applying the core pillars of Vampire Survivors – accessibility, immediacy, affordability, replayability, and lightheartedness – to entirely different genres, and if this opening salvo is any indication, every genre should be nervous.
Developer: poncle, Nosebleed Interactive
Publisher: poncle
Genre: Action, Dungeon Crawler, Card Battler, First-Person, Roguelike, Pixel Graphics, Indie
Release Date: To be announced
Reviewed on: PC/Windows
Available on: PC/Windows, Xbox Series X|S
Link: Steam
Review copy was demo.
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