Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| 1 million Crawlers in 1 week | 2026-04-29 | Hello,First of all, thank you to everyone who has been playing Vampire Crawlers since launch.The game released on April 21 on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation, with 1 million users in its first week. That is obviously a ridiculous number, and as our first Vampire Survivors spin-off, it means a lot to us. Vampire Survivors began as a very small, very strange project, and over time it grew into something much bigger than we ever expected. Vampire Crawlers is the first time we’ve tried to take those same core ideas and push them into a completely different genre. So thank you for trusting us enough to come along for that, and for th |
| Vampire Crawlers, the first-ever Vampire Survivors spin-off, is here! | 2026-04-21 | Hello Vampire S̶u̶r̶v̶i̶v̶o̶r̶s̶ Crawlers!The time has come. Today we’re releasing Vampire Crawlers, the first spin-off of Vampire Survivors, now available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation.With Vampire Crawlers, we wanted to take the snowballing chaos of Vampire Survivors and redesign it as a TurboTurn™-based, card-driven BLOBBER with roguelite elements. One moment, you’re taking a stroll through the average Italian countryside; the next, you’re exploring infested dungeons, building busted decks, and headbutting objects at alarming speed, as God intended.You can watch the launch trailer below.**Fun fact: Vampire Crawlers conta |
| Vampire Crawlers is coming April 21st | 2026-03-19 | Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers, Today we have yet another trailer. It has no gameplay, but includes the price, a release date, and a few other things that may not be helpful. Unless you were wondering what floor chicken costs. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/jaAEKYGnxrAI apologise for the incomprehensible reference-inception but just a little Vampire Crawlers will cost £9.99 / $9.99 / €9.99 / ¥1200 You can get it for Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PS5 starting April 21st The game is coming to mobile a bit later, but still in 2026. You can wishlist the game by clicking the link below. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/ If |
| Thank you for playing the Vampire Crawlers Demo! | 2026-03-06 | Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers, Steam Next Fest is over, which means I can stop refreshing the stats page to check the numbers quite so often. Thanks to everyone who tried the Vampire Crawlers demo during the event! Whether you played for five minutes or five hours, streamed it, reported bugs, or shared feedback, we appreciate it! Watching players jump in and immediately try to break things remains one of the most useful parts of releasing a demo. You kept crawling, and the game mostly behaved. Here’s a quick look at how things went. Demo stats During the Steam Next Fest, the demo got: 358k downloads 274k players That’s a lot of people tryi |
| Let’s Explore Vampire Crawlers | Episode 4 and 5 | 2026-02-20 | Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers!Today we have a couple more episodes of Let's Explore Vampire Crawlers: one about Character Card Triggers, and another about exploration. Character Triggers and Card types- Like all cards, Character Cards have an immediate, straightforward effect when played. But the characters will also stay a bit longer and fight with you, with their lingering passive Triggers. Triggers react when you play a card of their respective color, allowing you to activate all sorts of bonuses and effects. For example, by going on a crawl together with Poe, Suor Clerici, and Mortaccio, playing a simple "Armor" card will also let you |
| Let’s Explore Vampire Crawlers | Episode 2 and 3 | 2026-02-06 | Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers! Today we have a couple more episodes of Let's Explore Vampire Crawlers: one about a core gameplay mechanic, the Combo Multiplier, and another about the quirks and details of Character Selection. Combo Multiplier- Play cards in ascending mana cost to increase the Combo Multiplier and therefore multiply the effectiveness of every card. Use Wildcards to bridge the gaps and create insanely long chains! https://youtu.be/0XRi8ddiK34 Character Selection - Every character comes with a different starting deck and base stats. As you progress through the game, you'll be able to have up to 3 characters in your party, so |
| Let’s Explore Vampire Crawlers | Episode 1 | 2026-01-23 | Hello Vampire Survivors Crawlers! Today we're starting a little video series to put the spotlight on the main gameplay mechanics of Vampire Crawlers, starting with a duo of: the simplest mechanic (Turboturn) and possibly the deepest one (Card Customization). https://youtu.be/-Ael4oMaKQM The Turboturn! - Turn-based combat without the wait: you don't have to pause for animations to complete before triggering your next move. The game stacks and executes your ability inputs with precision, allowing you to play at your own pace. Chaotic? Calm and thoughtful? Random-bullshit-go? Everything works, the results are accurate regardless of your preferre |
| Thank you for over 170k wishlist additions! | 2025-12-16 | Vampire Crawlers has already got more than 170k wishlist on Steam, so thank you very much to all players for your trust! So far we have published only what is effectively a hype trailer to try to convey how it feels to play Vampire Crawlers, with a few sneak peeks at many of the game features and options to snowball into unhinged chaos. So, for a first update, we are showing a new gameplay trailer and some simple and unedited gameplay footage of the very first dungeon floor, focused on basic gameplay. This should let you see what is at the core of Vampire Crawlers: have fun playing satisfying abilities in turbo turn-based battles, at whatever |
| VAMPIRE CRAWLERS: the turbo wildcard from VAMPIRE SURVIVORS | 2025-11-20 | https://youtu.be/JbDVqLlLarY After years of tiny teasers, we're finally announcing VAMPIRE CRAWLERS: the turbo wildcard from VAMPIRE SURVIVORS! As a candidate for most stupid game name of the year the minute it got announced, VAMPIRE CRAWLERS has the goal to bring many of the elements of Vampire Survivors to an existing game genre: deckbuilding. Or was it dungeon crawling? Blobber maybe? Eh. Play cards in a turbo turn-based combat, Explore dungeon maps to find treasures and customisations, All dressed in a special Vampire Survivors sauce and some usual little rogue-lite elements. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3265700/Vampire_Crawlers_The |