I reviewed Vampire Survivors as our first ever Steam Deck evaluation when it hit 1.0. Since then, Vampire Survivors launched on Xbox platforms utilizing the brand new engine, and at last made its option to iOS and Android as revealed during The Game Awards. Learn my evaluation of the iOS model here. Yesterday, the primary paid DLC for Vampire Survivors launched on PC and Xbox platforms within the type of Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell priced at $1.99. This DLC shall be on cellular early subsequent 12 months, and I’ve been taking part in it for evaluation during the last week on Steam Deck and in addition on Xbox since yesterday.
Given how Vampire Survivors stays a killer app for the Steam Deck and the way superb the sport is on iOS, I needed to verify we cowl the primary ever paid DLC on Steam Deck. Having now spent over 12 hours with the DLC throughout Steam Deck and Xbox, I can safely say that Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell affords superlative worth, however there’s one annoyance with the sport on Steam Deck in its present state.
Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell provides new characters, weapons, secrets and techniques, achievements, and an enormous new map. Mt.Moonspell, the brand new map, has totally different biomes with distinctive monsters. This map feels a number of instances bigger than the opposite ones within the sport, however the deal with exploration right here makes an enormous distinction. Within the base sport core phases, I didn’t actually hassle doing a lot exploration barring in search of the stage power-ups or initially going in direction of the query marks to unlock one thing. With Mt.Moonspell, each run to date has felt like a breath of contemporary, and complicated, air.
Early on once I was nonetheless getting used to the map, the late-game parts with tons of enemies made exploration borderline unattainable. Think about being caught in a slim hall in a labyrinth-like zone however with tons of enemies protecting the display all through. That’s simply one of many conditions I had within the early hours of this DLC. I virtually need each new DLC to have a big map like this with a distinct theme due to how good it’s.
I’ve not seen each mixture or all of the synergies doable with weapons and characters within the time I’ve spent throughout platforms, however I’m greater than happy with all the pieces I’ve skilled to date in Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell. A couple of of my buddies have labored in direction of unlocking all the pieces a lot faster, however I’ve been slowly savoring the brand new content material. The weapons specifically are implausible additions. We often see DLC that brings loads much less to a sport promote for 10 or 20 instances this worth. Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell is completely underpriced for what it brings to the bottom sport, but it surely has one flaw.
Proper now, the one factor holding Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell again is the truth that the PC model nonetheless seemingly hasn’t moved over to the brand new engine port just like the Xbox and cellular variations. This implies efficiency in later elements of a run drop to sub 15fps on Steam Deck as proven in a screenshot right here. That is my solely grievance with the sport and the DLC on Steam Deck proper now. Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell elevates among the best video games of the 12 months to an entire different degree for a fraction of the already low asking worth of the bottom sport.
Within the time I’ve spent with the DLC on Xbox Sequence X, the most important body drops solely occurred with harm numbers enabled. I often disable them, however left them on to check. Issues nonetheless get actually dangerous, however the efficiency is significantly better than the sport on Steam Deck proper now. Whereas not a grievance concerning the DLC particularly, I actually hope that we get cross platform development with Steam, Xbox, and cellular within the close to future. Unlocking all the pieces on a number of platforms isn’t going to be enjoyable for most individuals.
In quite a lot of methods, Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell jogs my memory of the Useless Cells paid DLC the place every pack affords a ton of worth, however quite a lot of the gamers are simply joyful to throw extra assist to the builders for extra free and paid content material. If you happen to loved Vampire Survivors, the Legacy of the Moonspell DLC is a vital. The brand new map is massively superior, and I can’t look forward to the very good new songs to be added to the soundtrack. If that is the course poncle takes with future paid content material, I’m able to preserve gifting buddies the sport and its DLC throughout platforms.
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