It’s wild to assume Vampire Survivors has spent two years taking up our lives with out ever coming to PlayStation. Developer Poncle is lastly fixing that. The roguelite bullet hell sensation will hit PS4 and PS5 on the finish of August.
It’s arriving on Sony’s digital storefronts August 29 and could have all the sport’s earlier DLCs obtainable as properly. That features Legacy of the Moonspell, Tides of the Foscari, Emergency Assembly, and April’s Operation Weapons which added a Contra crossover. The bottom sport is $5 and all the DLC mixed is an extra $9. Plus there are all the free updates which have added all types of different characters and easter eggs.
Why did it take this lengthy? Poncle, a tiny indie workforce, has been taking its time with ports, engaged on one console a yr. Whereas Microsoft was on the ball with an Xbox model shortly after the 2022 PC launch, Vampire Survivors didn’t come to Nintendo Swap till a yr later, with a implausible free cellular model taking priority early on. Poncle blamed the newer holdup on Sony’s submission course of, noting that the workforce had by no means put a sport on the PlayStation retailer earlier than.
Within the meantime, Vampire Survivors has spawned dozens of worthy clones, copycats, and intelligent diversifications. A Deep Rock Galactic tackle the components known as Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor turned a mini-sensation on Steam in its personal proper earlier this yr. Like Slay the Spire earlier than it, Vampire Survivors appears to hit on one thing archetypal that elevates its mashup of mechanics into its personal subgenre.
It’s good that PlayStation homeowners will lastly be capable of see what all of the fuss is about. And in addition, I can’t wait to burn one other hundred hours chasing that Platinum trophy.
