Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood preview - A bloodbath of chaos and confusion

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Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood is a game that oozes familiarity in more than one way. For starters, it is based on the recently released Dracula successor movie, Renfield. The second aspect is that it is a rogue-like title in the vein of developer Poncle's smash-hit Vampire Survivors. This means players will weave around swarms of spawning enemies to try and kill them with rapid auto-attacks. The final point of interest is that it is an early-access title.

In other words, Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood is out for the public while still in active development. This is so that the team at Mega Cat Studios can polish and refine the experience as per player feedback.

Starting with the premise, Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood puts players in the shoes of Dracula's underappreciated servant. As the titular Renfield, players go about the city of New Orleans and harvest lives to please their master, which is where the real fun begins. Anyone who has played Vampire Survivors will be familiar with the game's core design.

Gameplay takes place across set levels, with players in control of Renfield from a top-down perspective. The final game is expected to have various characters, but here they start off with Renfield himself, who is played by actor Nicholas Hoult in the movie.

Expectedly, each character has their own health, stats, and a unique perk to aid in combat. After selecting a level, the first of which is a graveyard, players are thrown right into the carnage.

Renfield can be moved around the sizable levels, but that is it. He attacks on his own with a slashing move that hits enemies in an arc in the direction he is facing. All the while, they will spawn around the map and try to take him down. Defeating foes in a "room" unlocks