Minimalist auto-roguelike Vampire Survivors will quickly get maybe its most vital replace but in patch 1.8: Adventures.

As defined by developer Poncle in an FAQ, Adventures are a remixed solution to play Vampire Survivors in parallel to your important recreation. These scrambled “miniature story modes” (or “wacky sidequests”) reset the participant’s arsenal and progress from scratch with out overwriting progress in the principle recreation, and problem gamers with distinctive circumstances, development, and win standards. They’re considerably akin to beginning a seasonal character in an motion role-playing recreation like Diablo 4.

Adventures can be playable in co-op mode, and can be break up up into chapters that provide particular setups of things and characters and win circumstances, linked by some lore textual content. They’ll be free to any Vampire Survivors participant, though some are linked to paid DLC add-ons.

Poncle says patch 1.8 will add three Adventures — two obtainable from the bottom recreation, one linked to DLC — after which it intends so as to add a brand new Journey with each subsequent replace or DLC launch. Adventures must be unlocked inside the base recreation or linked DLC earlier than you may play them.

“The Legacy of the Moonspell DLC Journey showcases Vampire Survivors gameplay with a sequence of authentic twists, that includes remixed environments, characters, and weapons,” Poncle says. “One of many Adventures obtainable within the base recreation will discover how we’re transforming basic content material, with a barely severe storyline and an opportunity to earn unlocks sooner than regular. The opposite Journey can be as absurd as you’d often anticipate from Vampire Survivors.”

Adventures will fluctuate in size, though Poncle estimates it is going to take an hour or two to finish the primary few. That mentioned, there’s a sort of status system in place, whereby Adventures may be “ascended” after they’ve been accomplished, tweaking stats like Luck or Greed to make a subsequent playthrough extra rewarding. This may be carried out again and again, to infinity.

Though progress in Adventures and the principle recreation is generally separate, there are a few small areas of overlap. Relics and recreation modes carry over from the principle recreation into Adventures, whereas finishing an Journey rewards the participant with a cache of cash to make use of in the principle recreation.

General, Adventures sound like a considerable addition to a recreation that was onerous sufficient to place down within the first place. The 1.8 Adventures replace for Vampire Survivors is “coming quickly” to all platforms.