Vampire Survivors
With v1.0 just around the corner, the break-out hit of 2022 is about to be considered complete. Reinventing the Robotron-like bullet hell genre, Poncle’s Vampire Survivors is a ridiculously moreish game of gathering an ever-growing number of auto-firing abilities, in order to deal with hundreds of on-screen enemies as they barrel toward you.
Spawning an entire genre of its own, this is the big fad game of the year, after it snuck out just before Christmas last year. And it’s no wonder, given what an incredibly satisfying experience it is to play, then fail at, then play again. With rogue-lite elements meaning you make incremental improvements between attempts, and an ever-growing number of locations and heroes to play, it’s extraordinarily difficult to stop playing. Believe us, you’ll be seeing those blue gems every time you close your eyes for days. This seems likely to become an all-time PC classic.
A Good Match For: Anyone who wants to forget to go to bed until 3am, and then wake up thinking about playing some more.
Not A Good Match For: Those without the patience to lose at something an awful lot.
Read why it’s one of our best games of 2022, and how we just can’t stop playing
