Vampire Survivors’ free winter update lands tomorrow with a chilly new stage, frosty character and a big ol’ Okami fox to fight

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Vampire Survivors is the gift that keeps on giving, dropping a local multiplayer mode, flashy new engine and a whole bunch of other free stuff on top of a game that is already more than well worth its modest price tag. In the case of the screen-filling slay-’em-up’s next big update, it’s now a Christmas gift that keeps on giving, with a Santa’s sack worth of winter-inspired additions on the way. Oh, and it all arrives tomorrow. That’s nice.

Vampire Survivors’ 1.7 patch - or the Whiteout update, to give it its slightly more sexy/nineties rock band name - is headlined by a snow-covered new stage of the same name, which is crammed full of ghosts, ghouls and other monsters to plough through with your roster of weapons.

One of those weapons might be the brand new Glass Fandango (an excellent name), a sort of massive blue magical beam that apparently gets stronger as you move, as well as dishing out extra damage to frozen enemies - making it especially lethal when paired with the freezing effect of the Orologion pickup.

Speaking of pickups, there’s also a new relic in the form of the Antidote, which lets you purchase the Defang powerup. Defang effectively nerfs enemies when they spawn, making them unable to deal damage at increasingly regular intervals depending on how much you level-up Defang (it goes up to 15% of the time from a starting value of 3%).

Feeling cute, might release a free update on Thursday

(Announcement: We are releasing a free update this Thursday, it's called Whiteout, details below) https://t.co/nObwGizORR

Whiteout also adds a new character, She-Moon Eeta, who’ll be unlocked once you survive 20 minutes on the Whiteout stage with any character. (Or 10 minutes in Hyper mode.) The floating, frosty lady