You Don't Need $70 Billion To Buy Vampire Survivors, This Week's Indie Hit
It’s January 2022, and I already have a contender for one of the year’s most charming indie games. Five hours in and I have managed my first 25-minute run in Vampire Survivors. I’m in a library surrounded by witches and my character can’t keep up—I think it’s a lack of damage upgrades. I invested way too much in the wings that boost my movement speed. I have an evolved Magic Wand that is shredding the weird floating heads, but not quite enough, not enough, and… I’m dead. Who needs movement speed if you’re dead? I sit back in my chair and take a deep breath. Time for another run.
Vampire Survivors is a tiny indie game that arrived in the middle of December to little fanfare. After it was picked up by a few popular YouTubers and Twitch streamers, it has raced up the Steam trending list and is now stretching toward 4,000 Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam. Much like Loop Hero last year, the game is pretty simplistic in terms of gameplay, but therein lies its elegance. It’s like a browser game played, cheekily, at the back of a classroom. It’s a guilty pleasure. It’s a bullet hell, time survival, roguelite where you play as a series of powerful Vampiric characters, each with their own unique ability. I can’t put it down. Even better? Vampire Survivors is 25735294117 times cheaper than Activision-Blizzard, apparently. That’s £2.72.
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The game is a series of dopamine hits. Your first run is a disaster. You won’t make it past ten minutes, but you do get some gold and unlock some new weapons. That’s hit number one—time to start another run. That goes okay, but you still can’t make it past the ten-minute mark. At least you evolved a weapon for the
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