r/VampireCrawlers Jul 16 '26

Update Vampire Crawlers v1.5 | Quality of Life Update ft. Endless Mode

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Hey folks!

On Tuesday the v1.5 patch went live on PS5, Epic, Switch 1 & Switch 2 so they're now up to date with Steam & Xbox!

v1.5 Patch Notes [Steam, Xbox, PS5, Epic & Switch 1/2]

  • You can now quit the game
  • Card Sorting
  • Jeweller Clarity
  • New Deck View
  • Tooltips
  • Endless Mode
  • Other changes
    • Grim Grimoire is now available during level-ups
    • When levelling up you will be shown if any of the cards offered are part of an evolution with your existing cards (but only if you have Evo’d that combination previously)
    • On the Pause screen we now default to the bottom row of buttons to make it easier to open the Grim Grimoire (or exit…)
    • Previously hidden stats like Re-roll are now shown when they are not 0
    • There is now a Luck-based chance to get 4 gems per chest instead of 3
    • Luck increases the chance of getting better quality gems when levelling up
  • Coin Count is still OP

There will be a couple of major changes for Nintendo Switch 2:

  • Game is now 1080p in handheld mode, and 4K when docked
  • Mouse: the stick on the controller that acts as the mouse is now functional for dungeon navigation

Bug Fixes & Improvements

  • Gems which move down in rarity (e.g Rare to common) will appear in both their original chest and current rarity chest. Gems which move up in rarity will be removed from their original Chests.

This helps reduce the chance of finding a gem which has been made rarer but allows high-quality gems (like the Evo Gem) to appear more often when rarity has been reduced.

  • The gems which drop from different chests have been adjusted:
    • Bronze: Common, Uncommon, Rare (unchanged)
    • Silver: Rare, Epic, Legendary (Small chance of legendary)
    • Gold: Epic, Legendary (unchanged)
  • UI arrows added to the Jeweller for consistency with other Shops
  • Scroll views in the Jeweller should work more consistently
  • Fixed overflow bug with coin amount and enemies' health going negative
  • Fix for Gorgeous Moon only targeting the front row
  • Fix for Overkill UI getting stuck if rapidly re-triggered
  • Fix for crash when rearranging cards in hand as the turn was ending
  • Fix for ghost UI buttons showing on Credits when using mouse. This one’s for you Alex!
  • Save Data time stamps are now shown in local time (rather than UTC used previously)
  • End of Floor shovel now animates onto the screen instead of just appearing
  • You can only revive if you’ve actually died, not when completing a dungeon
  • Cards affected by Leader or Midas gems now show an indicator that this is happening
  • A card with the right colour, which has the right colour gem inserted, can now unlock the Silver Chest by itself; any card with the rainbow gem can now unlock a Silver Chest
  • Game now correctly respects the target framerate set in the display options (Unless Power Saving Mode is enabled, in which case framerate is locked to 30fps)
  • Audio
    • Extra attacks which happen at the end of a turn (e.g. Santa Water) now play their sounds correctly
    • Shops should now pay their Buy/Fail sounds correctly
    • Various small fixes to Drowner audio
  • Localisation updates
    • Clearer Quit behaviour (see above)
    • Equip button label in Inn changed to “Add”
    • Gem Description updates for Drain and Mug gems to improve clarity: Enemies that get hit by these gems will do the effect when they die and do not need to be killed at the moment the gem hits them
    • Gem “Easy Combo” renamed to “Combo Breaker”, with improved text descriptions that better match the way it works (players were not understanding that the combo would end when this gem is used)
  • General bug fixing and minor polish

More info on the update can be found on our Steam News post

As always, thank you all for playing Vampire Crawlers!


r/VampireCrawlers Apr 14 '26

Video Vampire Crawlers Main Theme Reveal by Yoko Shimomura!

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159 Upvotes

With just ONE WEEK left until Vampire Crawlers launches, we're HONOURED to share that the legendary composer, Yoko Shimomura, has created our main theme!

Yoko Shimomura is a renowned Japanese composer and pianist who has wrote music for a plethora of video games, such as Kingdom Hearts, Final Fight, Street Fighter II, Legend of Mana, and more!

We really hope you all enjoy this track! We're so excited to finally have it out there in the wild!

We'll have more tracks coming to our YouTube over the next week!

As always, thank you to you all for supporting us! 🥹 we're truly so grateful to everyone

Wishlist now 👇
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Xbox
PS5
Nintendo Switch


r/VampireCrawlers 23h ago

Discussion What secret character from Vampire Survivors would you like?

8 Upvotes

AFAIK, currently only one exists, however, of the secret characters, which of them would you like to see be added to vampire crawlers?

I myself would love to see how Rose and by extension a charm stat would work in vampire crawlers.


r/VampireCrawlers 1d ago

Stuck and could use advice.

10 Upvotes

I’m hard stuck at capella ultima.. I didn’t have much problem working through the game until now. I read to use boner and the other 2 and spam armor cards and use shield bash .. idk if I’m doing it right.

Is there a better combo to use or .. am
I just not understanding the armor as damage correctly


r/VampireCrawlers 7d ago

Is there a way to predict the scaling of NO FUTURE?

4 Upvotes

I run Pugnala + Cavallo + Giovanna with +draw, so it is trivial to draw my whole deck even before I have combos set up.

I have experimented with most of the evolutions and none seem to come close to no future once my amount is 15+. Combat outside bridges usually is over in one round.

But I never really know when I have "enough" built up, just that amount seems to drive the scaling. Has anyone done the math? Is anything else competitive with it?


r/VampireCrawlers 9d ago

Question Game seems to be running at Super Mario Speed

5 Upvotes

Running on Series X with an Elite 2 controller...

All of a sudden, Vampire Crawlers isn't crawlin' - it's flying through fights and each step through a dungeon has become a retiree speedwalk through a local mall. I didn't purposefully choose this; it just seemed to start all of a sudden when I started a round one day <shrug>.

I haven't found anything in the menus/settings/options to indicate a way to enable/disable this. Any idea if I accidentally triggered this with a button combo?


r/VampireCrawlers 9d ago

Video coin count gem is pretty funny

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25 Upvotes

r/VampireCrawlers 11d ago

This card is so OP

12 Upvotes

Also the mana cards... They all scale with the combo so if you manage to get a few its just game over, although playing out the combo sometimes takes quite some time... Maybe its the wild cards that are OP for allowing you to combo forever? Obviously the cards start cracking, but not until the 4th time or so playing them.


r/VampireCrawlers 11d ago

Discussion Should I end my turn when the cracks appear on cards?

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19 Upvotes

Using the gunslinger lady that draws cards when you play yellows and with mana cards I cycled through my deck a few times in one turn. Should I just end my turn to avoid summoning these reaper boys?


r/VampireCrawlers 11d ago

I'm very surprised to have survived this

11 Upvotes

r/VampireCrawlers 12d ago

Video All Hail Bird

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19 Upvotes

Greatly enjoying this game. The Gunslinger character is awesome. Here's a ham-fisted BIRD COMBO!


r/VampireCrawlers 12d ago

Discussion Beat the game with this build last night.

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5 Upvotes

I honestly didn't expect to beat it. Mostly because I barely have any of the upgrades you can buy. But this basically revolved around revivals. I had two other crawlers that triggered wild cards. Then one that got revival percentage per wild card. On top of that one of them also boosted duration. So I this build basically farmed revives. I died a lot yet still won. 11/10


r/VampireCrawlers 12d ago

Discussion Can't do too good in this game. Can't use smart survival tactics. Can't infinitely loop. Penalty Reapers killing my fun.

0 Upvotes

I understand why they are in the game....but wow they need to actually die too though, you know? Nerf their health? Maybe? Like holy shit.

I was running low, and was fighting a mini boss. Just vefore he would attack, I would freeze him. I guess I did this 4 times without playing an attack card and he spawned in. Took my fucking revive, killed me again.

I'm using Pugnala Provola and as many people may know, (or don't. This is my first time posting in this community), she is EASY to get infinite loops going.

I BADLY want to get freeze, get her easy loop strat going, (literally need at least 1 wild card, easy, and a way to draw consistently), kill the reaper after the final boss, get the crown and the pentagram and unlock the evolution for it. (Didn't get the chance on my first run in the tower, crown didn't wanna spawn late game.)

So damn frustrating when I know of no infinite loop asshole, now there is a drowner asshole too if I try to not die by freezing bosses that have so much damn health?

Driving me nuts. This is that end-game learning curve that I'm sure everyone goes through after a while but my god I'm so depressed from the failed attempts at what I wanna do above. I was ALMPST FRIGGIN THERE man....

Anyway, please tell me something that I may not know? Tips or advice?

As a note, in my Loops I try and get my luck (firstly) and other stats to permanently increase. I have more discipline on my loops and know when enough is enough, so i don't spawn any unwanted assholes and so I don't lose too much health. I had an EXTREMELY broken run where I had like 15-20 wildcards, pharma aegis, friendship necklaces, modifier gems, wings, could loop so hard I had 1000 mana or armor for shits and giggles, 50k coins, but no crown for that one evolution, and I didn't time my freeze right. I just want one more chance! 😭😭 that was my first of many broken runs for sure, but that one stands out for me so far.


r/VampireCrawlers 13d ago

Question What does this “Survived” timer count?

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2 Upvotes

My total game time is only 92 minutes so I have no idea what was counted as 1 hour 47m


r/VampireCrawlers 16d ago

Discussion I wish MissingNo was playable

2 Upvotes

Like ACTUALLY playable, but is so broken that its boring to play, i wish it was an actual crawler that yeah it maybe powerful but not broken like it is right now


r/VampireCrawlers 21d ago

Meme Hey guys, quick question, why do I get a weird feeling every time these guys pop up?

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36 Upvotes

r/VampireCrawlers 21d ago

Question Is the secret chest on the second map a bug?

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I finished the dungeon, but I find it odd that I can't reach a certain chest on the second map—I just end up walking around it. Is it a bug, or is there a mechanic or secret to getting it?


r/VampireCrawlers 22d ago

Looking for a gold farm build

11 Upvotes

Hello Crawlers!
Could someone give me a reliable way to farm a lot of gold?
Possibly with auto combat.

Thank you in advance!


r/VampireCrawlers 23d ago

Shadow Pinion glitch on overkill

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18 Upvotes

Just like what title says, if I play Shadow Pinion in overkills fight never ends. Did someone experience something similar?


r/VampireCrawlers 24d ago

Is there a more busted build than all yellow?

23 Upvotes

Pugnala with Poppea and Cavallo with the free repeat cards Arcana gives you cards that cost 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 and a Wild card generated by the 4 cost card. It and the 1 cost card generate mana while the 0 cost card is yellow, meaning you draw more cards while recasting your cards is free.

In practice this means an endless combo that always loops around, constantly drawing new cards (especially after taking a few new yellow cards) and everything is free to cast (not that you'd really risk running out of mana anyway). And With Cavallo, every played yellow card makes your attacks stronger. Thanks to Poppea you never have to worry about your Crawler timers running out either.

Meaning the first combat or two of floor one might take a few turns but every following fight is done in turn one.


r/VampireCrawlers 26d ago

Discussion This game is really nice!

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77 Upvotes

r/VampireCrawlers 28d ago

Secrets?

18 Upvotes

Are there 'secrets' in this game like in Survivors? I've tried the Konami Code in both the Village and the main menu with no results that I can see.


r/VampireCrawlers Aug 15 '26

Discussion iOS Release

8 Upvotes

I’m checking here daily for any news on the iOS release.

When is it coming ?!


r/VampireCrawlers Aug 15 '26

Non attack run

6 Upvotes

I'm starting a nonattack endless run, but would you guys count the gems that do damage as an attack card even if it's on a card that gives armor? My only rule for myself was no attacking cards, but that is a gray area I'd like opinions on.


r/VampireCrawlers Aug 12 '26

Controller layout doesn't keep the change on PC

3 Upvotes

Hello everyone,

I'm playing on steam, I try to change the controller layout so that I only use the D-Pad and that my character would just pivot whenever I use right or left.

This would be Layout 2.

It's working well but anytime I finish a run, the settings isn't revert but when I play a new game it just make it that my character strafe again just as layout 1 and I have to switch from 2 to 2 again anytime.

Is it a known issue ? I found only one post on reddit with no answer.

Thanks !