This Vampire Survivors-like has catgirls, is brilliant, and costs nothing

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I don't know anything about VTubers, aside from the fact they're virtual… YouTubers...? What I do know, is there's a Vampire Survivors-like called HoloCure: Save The Fans that's entirely fan made, entirely free, and revolves around Hololive, a VTuber agency replete with catgirls. I am taken aback by how good it is.

Among many other things, Vampire Survivors squeezes so much out of its stages and items. There's a list of things to unlock and they're all yours if you're willing to experiment with cloves of garlic and magic wands for 30-minutes at a time. And if you stumble into a powerful union of cat and mask when you're not even trying, then even better! While your roster of characters and spending options expand, they never swell beyond the swarms of critters in their arenas. The game is singularly focused: everything's yours if you carve through those swarms of bats.

If Vampire Survivors is largely minimalistic, HoloCure is very much maximalist. On the surface, HoloCure operates in much the same way as last year's smash hit. You pick from a roster of cat girls who auto-attack at certain intervals. Your aim is to either beat a stage with a boss, or survive for as long as you can in an endless mode. Survival is dodging in and out of swarms of weird beasties while upgrading your beloved idol with fireballs that'll tank your frame rate. The more it tanks, the better it's going.

It's only after a couple of games where HoloCure's extras surface. There's a gacha system - entirely operated with in-game currency, might I add - where you can unlock new VTubers to survive with. The roster is massive! And, incredibly, each has their own special abilities and unlockables, like one of my faves Inugami Korone, whose flurry of punches