{"id":303734,"date":"2025-11-20T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303734\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T19:01:07","slug":"vampire-survivors-sequel-changes-up-the-formula-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/303734\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Survivors Sequel Changes Up The Formula In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, during Xbox\u2019s latest digital showcase event, Poncle announced Vampire Crawlers, a Vampire Survivors follow-up coming to Xbox and PC in 2026. But instead of being a top-down idle shooter or \u201creverse bullet hell\u201d game like 2021\u2019s Vampire Survivors,<\/a> this newly revealed game is a dungeon crawler with roguelike elements and cards.<\/p>\n

On November 20, during Xbox\u2019s Partner Preview event, Poncle revealed the first look at Vampire Crawlers.\u00a0Here\u2019s the trailer, which is filled with a lot of the same enemies, jokes, and chaos you\u2019d expect from Vampire Survivors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an Xbox interview with Poncle founder & CEO Luca,<\/a> the creator behind Vampire Survivors explains that they have been working on this sequel\/spin-off for roughly four years, starting work on it shortly after the OG game exploded on Steam. It is one of many possible spin-offs and experiments the team is working on. This just happened to be the first one to \u201chit its goal,\u201d hence why it\u2019s getting released first in 2026.<\/p>\n

When asked what kind of game Vampire Crawlers is, Luca joked that it\u2019s a totally new genre called \u201cAction TurboTurn\u2122 Game (Turbo Turn System).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJokes aside, this game is just a dungeon crawler you play with cards,\u201d admitted Luca. \u201cIt\u2019s about mowing down hordes of enemies using cards, while you explore dungeons, playing as slowly or as fast as you prefer. You can take your time and be tactical, or play cards as fast as you humanly can, because the game is built to always provide accurate logical outcomes, regardless of the visual chaos that your abilities might cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Luca tells Xbox that Vampire Crawlers will launch as a full game, and not in early access, though Poncle does have plans to update it after launch if players like Crawlers and want more content and features.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like Vampire Survivors, we\u2019ve built the game so that it could eventually be expanded,\u201d said Luca. \u201cWe\u2019ll leave it to the community to tell us if they want even more, and what they actually want from it going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vampire Crawlers launches sometime in 2026 on Xbox, Game Pass, and PC. It will be available day one on Game Pass and will support Xbox Play Anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, during Xbox\u2019s latest digital showcase event, Poncle announced Vampire Crawlers, a Vampire Survivors follow-up coming to Xbox…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[45257,74,157818,139277,1298],"class_list":{"0":"post-303734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-game-pass","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-vampire-crawlers","11":"tag-vampire-survivors","12":"tag-xbox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}