Vampire Survivors

[PanthersATL]

Saw this game pop up on various "Best Of" gaming lists.  It's a mashup of a rogue-like and tower-defense game.   

Starts out relatively benign, but then you may find yourself playing for 45m at a time, killing vampires with autofire.

[Zaximus]

Oddly, there actually isn't any vampires in the game yet lol.  There was a article with the creator a few days ago about that.  But yeah this game is a lot of fun and addicting.  It was created by a guy that programs slot machines so it has a lot of that "one more game/pull" going on for it.   It's on xbox Gamepass now too.  I've been watching it for a while but just started playing a few days ago.

If you are starting out, get Porta unlocked as fast as you can, and then unlock things required for lightning ring evolve (duplicator), axe, santa water, king bible, etc.  She has build in like 30% area and santa water evolve with king bible evolve makes a fantastic early build. 

[PanthersATL]

if it wasn't for wiki guides, I'd have no idea how to achieve any of the item unlocks at all.

Agree that Santa Water and King Bible are very helpful to evolve.   Just got the Yellow Sign, so trying to figure out how to grab the rings and laurel in a timely manner while still leveling everything up to survive.

I *think* the "run away!" strategy can work for this particular activity.  will figure that out later this week, I hope.

[PanthersATL]

Was able to evolve the Crimson Shroud at about the 25m mark in the Library

Currently sitting at minute 116 waiting for one of the spawned Red Deaths to finally die and bring along the White Death.  Of course, it's probably 6 million hit points per Red Death, so we may be here a while while we wait for Santa Water, Whip, Axe, and Runetracer to do their things.

 

[PanthersATL]

Alrighty, killed two deaths in Mad Forest using Divano and obtaining Infinite Corridor.  Almost had Death killed in the Library using the Runetracer/Level 2 "trick", but couldn't get the timing quite right.

Yeah, it's very slot-machiney. Gotta keep earning those achievements.