Swedish developer Stunlock Studios was the group behind enviornment brawler Battlerite, and has introduced a few of that type of motion to V Rising, making for a uncommon mixture—a survival recreation with fight that does not suck. You already know what does suck? Vampires, with the blood-drinking and that. V Rising is a multiplayer survival recreation the place you are a wannabe Depend Dracula, chopping down timber and constructing a fortress if you’re not dodging daylight and looking peasants.
V Rising had its Early Entry launch right now and took off like a frog in a sock. It peaked at 46,593 concurrent gamers and proper now’s the quantity 12 recreation on Steam. Person critiques are sitting at Very Optimistic, with reward for the technical fight, PvP, tough boss fights, and dynamic enemies who generally activate one another. My favourite consumer overview merely sums it up as: “Valheim if Valheim was a Goth Woman”.
“The day is lastly right here, our vampires have been revealed within the moonlight and it is as much as the gamers to find their secrets and techniques,” mentioned Johan Ilves, advertising director at Stunlock Studios. “With loads of blood, sweat and tears (however principally blood), we now have created the foundations for a really distinctive vampire gameplay expertise. This Early Entry marketing campaign will enable us to fine-tune V Rising and take the ultimate steps in making a genre-defining gem.”
The goal is for V Rising to depart Early Entry “inside 12 months”, with the ultimate model having extra of principally all the things, together with enemies, biomes, crafting recipes, weapons, and so forth. Hopefully it’s going to additionally get controller help alongside the best way, and grow to be playable on the Steam Deck, which it looks like a pure match for. V Rising is obtainable on Steam.
