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Vampire Survivors cover art

Vampire Survivors

poncle · 2022-10-20

SteamPlayStation StoreEpic Games StoreMicrosoft Store

ActionCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen

Releases: Aug 17, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 20, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jul 01, 2023 (Linux), Aug 29, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Aug 29, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Feb 01, 2022 (Mac)

Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

7,084
playing now
98%
positive of 265k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
5,000,000–10,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40
twitch viewers (latest)
91/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
81/100
IGDB user rating (380 ratings)
88/100
opencritic · mighty · 98% recommend
28h
to beat · rushed 15h · completionist 55h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$4.99
steam price (US)

7,084 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 00:00 UTC (census sample)

Vampire Survivors, also known as Vampire Survivors — First Survivaton, is a 2022 independent roguelike shoot 'em up video game developed and published by Luca Galante under the studio name poncle. Following an early access period that began in December 2021, it was released for macOS, Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Android, and iOS in late 2022. A port for Nintendo Switch was released on August 17, 2023, and on August 29, 2024, a port was released for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. A virtual reality port for the Meta Quest was released in November 2025.

Trailer

Vampire Survivors trailer thumbnail

Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Bloodmoon | Coming August 28th | Launch Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Healthy
  • · 7,084 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 8,114 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,014/week).
  • · Review velocity down 20% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (34,649 reviews).
  • · Top 1% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.3M–12M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 264,881 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.69 at Steam (2021-12-17) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 12 of 25 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
34k34k20212026Week of 2021-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 18,230 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 169 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 34,188 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 461 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 13,754 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 18,713 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 206 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 11,360 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 158 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 7,542 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 130 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 5,944 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 4,613 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 81 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 3,593 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 92 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 7,065 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 190 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 32,806 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 206 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 8,251 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 207 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 7,969 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 154 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4,475 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3,098 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 88 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 5,020 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 157 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2,346 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2,178 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2,941 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 4,242 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2,729 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 3,320 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 85 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5,173 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 89 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3,403 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 109 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2,722 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 83 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1,530 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 1,904 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1,566 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2,040 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 1,209 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 39 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,556 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,536 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1,149 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,494 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4,992 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 2,570 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1,405 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1,039 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1,229 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1,398 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 953 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 34 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 999 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1,074 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 810 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 825 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 31 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 1,715 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 2,005 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 98 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1,243 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1,038 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 66 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 845 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 794 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 902 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 50 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 981 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,049 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 888 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 574 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 37 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7.1k2.1k2026-08-06 21:00 — 2,636 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 2,289 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 3,034 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 2,877 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 2,971 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 3,581 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 3,560 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 3,189 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 3,888 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 3,456 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 2,534 players2026-08-10 13:00 — 3,294 players2026-08-10 21:00 — 2,904 players2026-08-11 05:00 — 2,603 players2026-08-11 13:00 — 3,398 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 2,784 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 2,415 players2026-08-15 12:00 — 3,165 players2026-08-16 20:00 — 3,394 players2026-08-18 03:00 — 2,449 players2026-08-19 11:00 — 2,391 players2026-08-20 18:00 — 2,657 players2026-08-22 02:00 — 2,668 players2026-08-23 09:00 — 2,934 players2026-08-24 17:00 — 2,815 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 2,471 players2026-08-27 09:00 — 2,088 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 6,696 players2026-08-30 00:00 — 7,084 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.002021-12-172026-08-262021-12-17 — best price $2.692022-04-15 — best price $2.992022-11-01 — best price $4.992022-12-05 — best price $3.992023-01-05 — best price $4.992023-03-16 — best price $3.992023-04-25 — best price $3.742023-05-27 — best price $3.992023-07-13 — best price $4.992023-08-22 — best price $4.992023-10-15 — best price $4.992023-11-21 — best price $3.742023-12-21 — best price $3.742024-02-12 — best price $4.242024-03-21 — best price $4.992024-06-27 — best price $3.742024-08-15 — best price $4.992024-11-27 — best price $3.742024-12-20 — best price $3.492025-02-17 — best price $4.992025-03-26 — best price $3.992025-04-09 — best price $4.992025-06-02 — best price $4.992025-06-27 — best price $3.742025-07-21 — best price $4.992025-10-21 — best price $3.492026-01-05 — best price $4.992026-02-23 — best price $4.992026-03-26 — best price $4.992026-04-13 — best price $4.992026-04-27 — best price $4.992026-06-25 — best price $3.742026-07-29 — best price $4.992026-08-26 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.2k2882026-05-28 — 407 pageviews2026-05-31 — 354 pageviews2026-06-03 — 390 pageviews2026-06-06 — 814 pageviews2026-06-09 — 1,204 pageviews2026-06-12 — 476 pageviews2026-06-15 — 493 pageviews2026-06-18 — 514 pageviews2026-06-21 — 476 pageviews2026-06-24 — 430 pageviews2026-06-27 — 456 pageviews2026-06-30 — 434 pageviews2026-07-03 — 386 pageviews2026-07-06 — 353 pageviews2026-07-09 — 386 pageviews2026-07-12 — 349 pageviews2026-07-15 — 399 pageviews2026-07-18 — 316 pageviews2026-07-21 — 364 pageviews2026-07-24 — 309 pageviews2026-07-27 — 373 pageviews2026-07-30 — 338 pageviews2026-08-02 — 337 pageviews2026-08-05 — 323 pageviews2026-08-08 — 340 pageviews2026-08-11 — 369 pageviews2026-08-14 — 359 pageviews2026-08-17 — 417 pageviews2026-08-20 — 498 pageviews2026-08-23 — 563 pageviews2026-08-25 — 491 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

2.0k02026-08-21 08:12 — 1,998 viewers2026-08-26 19:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-26 22:34 — 28 viewers2026-08-27 02:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-27 05:34 — 24 viewers2026-08-27 08:34 — 30 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 39 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 17 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 30 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 23 viewers2026-08-28 06:34 — 28 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 3 viewers2026-08-28 12:34 — 161 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 251 viewers2026-08-28 18:34 — 23 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 97 viewers2026-08-29 00:34 — 90 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 56 viewers2026-08-29 06:34 — 214 viewers2026-08-29 09:34 — 134 viewers2026-08-29 12:35 — 97 viewers2026-08-29 15:34 — 89 viewers2026-08-29 18:34 — 309 viewers2026-08-29 21:34 — 155 viewers2026-08-30 00:34 — 44 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 58 viewers2026-08-30 06:34 — 23 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 68 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 101 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 40 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
97.8%
earned "Hollow Heart"
73.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerMulti-playerCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing9 DLC

14 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)137,5073%243
Xbox Series, Xbox One, Windows (Xbox)50,7881%253
PS5 (PlayStation)19,8026%254
PS4 (PlayStation)5,41346%125
Switch (Nintendo)2,6040%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPGIndieRetroActionArcadeCasualVampireControllerRogue-like

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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