Vampire Survivors' latest DLC is a perfect $2 jolt of the game I fell in love with last year

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Vampire Survivors has gotten its second round of DLC, Tides of the Foscari(opens in new tab), and like the first, Legacy of the Moonspell, there's a lot to love here: more characters, maps, items, and secrets for 2022's best roguelike, all for just two bucks. While the starting map, Lake Foscari, didn't immediately light my fire, the continuation of Vampire Survivor's signature secrets and unlocks really won me over.

I missed Moonspell on the first go-around, so I wasn't sure exactly what to expect when I broke my long absence from Vampire Survivors and loaded into Foscari. If I have one complaint about the whole package, it's that this primary new map just needed some more visual flair. It's got a great layout with more distinct landmarks (including a cheeky hedge maze) than many of the base game's stages, but while December's Mt. Moonspell hit us with an evocative, snow-clad Japanese Village, Foscari's look just reminds me too much of vanilla levels like Mad Forest, Il Molise, or Green Acres.

[Some light spoilers of DLC unlockables follows]

I've yet to reach the second map, Foscari Abyss, though, and that name already has my interest piqued⁠—I only just snagged the new character (the third of the DLC) who can trigger the Lake Foscari secret that unlocks the Abyss. These cascading secrets interacting with each other is the real draw for me here, and I'm excited to see the team continue to implement those twisty little secret levels and bosses that made the main game really sing.  I think that capacity for surprise and delight is what'll make continued DLC drops for Vampire Survivors really worth getting.

The new characters are really managing to get me out of my well-established Vampire Survivors comfort zone too.