‘Vampire Survivors’ Mobile Review – Nearly Perfect – TouchArcade

Final night time, Vampire Survivors (Free) from Poncle lastly hit iOS and Android worldwide without cost. The massively-popular indie sport has been one of many most-played video games on Steam Deck since launch, and I’ve loved enjoying it each day throughout Steam Deck and on Xbox just lately. Learn my evaluate of the 1.0 launch here to be taught in regards to the sport. On this evaluate, I’ll deal with the iOS port, the options included, and what I’d prefer to see in updates.

Regardless of Vampire Survivors exploding in recognition on Steam, it solely obtained its hooks in me on Steam Deck. I saved hoping for a cellular model with portrait assist, and that has now occurred. Vampire Survivors on iOS and Android is a free sport with no in app purchases. It’s ad-supported, and there may be at the moment no option to pay to not have any prompts to observe advertisements. This isn’t like most free to play video games the place you forcibly see junk whereas enjoying, however a really unobtrusive button to observe an advert in order for you. I hope there’s a option to pay to disable this completely.

Now, the precise cellular conversion performs nice on my iPhone 11 and iPad Professional (2020). While you initially boot up the sport, it hundreds in portrait, however you’ll be able to change this from the second display screen within the choices menu. This can’t be accomplished whereas on a run although so maintain that in thoughts. The choices additionally allow you to alter the sound results, disable flashing, alter the quantity, disguise harm numbers, and extra. There aren’t any management choices or something, however given the gameplay, these aren’t wanted.

With regards to the controls, Vampire Survivors remains to be a single stick sport the place you progress and shoot on the similar time. It’s excellent for transportable and portrait play together with your thumb. Whilst you can play it in panorama mode on iPhone, I’d solely suggest doing so in case you are utilizing a Razer Kishi or Backbone One controller in your cellphone. I discovered these setups the comfiest to date.

Regardless of Vampire Survivors formally being introduced throughout The Recreation Awards, it really went reside on the App Retailer and Google Play fairly just a few hours prior. Having performed it so much earlier than the announcement and through The Recreation Awards, I’m ecstatic with how good most elements of this conversion are. I simply hope a future replace can allow us to pay to utterly disable advertisements and monitoring with a one time in app buy. I’m trying ahead to making an attempt out the DLC when it launches subsequent week on Steam and finally on iOS.

As for what I’d like addressed in future updates, a few of the contact targets, whereas much like the scaling on PC, are a bit small on iPhone. I hope these could be improved over time. The opposite problem is the sport at the moment doesn’t appear to have iCloud save syncing. If it does have it, I’ll replace this, however I didn’t handle getting it working throughout 4 units and two totally different iCloud accounts. The developers are working on letting gamers convey progress throughout cellular and PC/Xbox, so possibly that’s when cloud saves can be sorted, however that is price maintaining in thoughts should you play on a number of units like I do. Having the sport droop your run while you depart it and it closes within the background would even be a pleasant addition in a patch.

When you’re interested in the place to play it proper now, I’d say the most suitable choice is iPhone in portrait or panorama with a controller connected. I didn’t care a lot for it with contact controls on iPad, however utilizing an exterior controller is nice. Be aware that there are black bars in panorama mode relying in your system. I hope a future replace can add ultrawide display screen assist, however which may not be possible with how the sport is designed.

It feels surreal to see Vampire Survivors have such an ideal model on iOS and Android already. I saved pondering it would launch on Nintendo Swap and finally PlayStation following the Xbox and PC variations earlier than coming to cellular. Not solely is it price downloading, however it’s utterly free. Hopefully the cellular model finally catches up with the PC and Xbox variations so we get DLC and updates on the similar time. Till then, I’m getting again to making an attempt to succeed in the place I’m on Steam Deck on my iPhone from the beginning, and having an absolute blast with Vampire Survivors once more.