Everyone is Talking About This Million Dollar Vampire Game

Joshua Gad
4 min readJun 2, 2022

V Rising it seems is an instant success. After developer Stunlock Studios released their previous title, Battlerite Royale, the studio put what they learned to good use by creating one of the most compelling, and genre-defying, RPG Survival games.

At it’s core V Rising is about building your base and progressing your vampiric character. There are a lot of systems in this game and most of them are well put together and contribute to an immersive and hand-crafted open world. For better or for worse, the game has resource gathering that is necessary to upgrade your character and castle. But it also has a wholly unique camera, that allows you to tilt the traditional top-down action-role-playing camera. And to complete the Vampire fantasy, the gimmick mechanic of staying out of the light during the day is actually quite enjoyable and memorable for a survival game.

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Joshua Gad

Game Designer with a Bachelor of Science. I talk about techno life and design ethics while I make games.