Vampire Survivors could be getting cross-saves and an ‘adventures’ mode
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Vampire Survivors is out on Switch on Thursday (it’s great), and sometime in the future, you might be able to bring your save file to Nintendo’s console — and everywhere else the game is available, developer Poncle announced.
“A lot of people have been asking for cross-save, and the Nintendo Switch port will most likely increase demand even more,” Poncle wrote in a post on Steam on Thursday. “We’re working on it: we have already run successful tests in moving saves between PC, mobile, and consoles, while also adding cloud save slots! We’ll keep you updated, but save data is a very delicate thing, so this will really need a lot of testing and an adequate amount of time in the oven to be released in a safe, fully working state.”
The fact that I couldn’t bring over my progress from PC was one of my few criticisms with the Switch port of the game, so I’m happy to hear that cross-saves are in development — even if it might be a while before they are officially rolled out.
On Thursday, Poncle also released a free update that adds local co-op across all platforms. On Discord, the team said that it’s looking into online co-op as well, “but that is such a massive undertaking that we cannot make any promises at this time.”
Thursday’s post has a few other Vampire Survivors tidbits as well. In a screenshot (which I’ve included at the top of this post), Poncle teased some kind of “Adventures” mode. Poncle said it will “add a lot of gameplay options and possibilities” and
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