Vampire Crawlers

Gameplay

Vampire Crawlers is a roguelike deck-building game based on characters, weapons and other concepts from Vampire Survivors. Players start in a village and select one of several combatants ("crawlers") which starts with a basic deck of cards that favor certain weapons or abilities. The player can then select to travel to one of several regions each representing a dungeon, several which have multiple levels with different difficulties. On entering a dungeon, the game switches to a simple first-person view of the dungeon similar to early computer role-playing games. The player has a map showing all encounters on the dungeon floor include a boss that blocks the exit to the next floor. Beating encounters earns the player experience points, and as they level up, they get the option to add a new card to their deck. New cards also can be found in chests through a dungeon, along with gold, healing items, and other treasures. Each dungeon has a fixed number of floors, and on beating the boss on the final floor, the crawler is intentionally killed by a powerful demon, returning them to town with the gold they had collected. Completion of a specific dungeon typically also provides a permanent reward such as a new card type they can find, a new region to explore, or an artifact or tarot card that changes how the game is played. Other rewards like new characters can come from completing achievements in the game. Combat follows typical rules for card-based games; each round, the player receives a random draw of cards from their deck, each card with a mana cost to play out of a limited set of mana for that turn. Once the player completes their turn, any remaining monsters will attack the player. Cards include attack cards that can damage enemies, armor cards that help protect the player from damage, and passive ability cards that increase the player's combat attributes for that combat. There are also cards that represent the crawler selected, which also provide temporary boosts. Though cards can be played in any manner, there are opportunities to play cards to generate damage or boosting multipliers. The game is designed that players can either play cards slowly in a thoughtful…