{"id":136515,"date":"2026-03-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-198874"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T16:15:00","slug":"vampire-survivors-crazy-dungeon-crawler-spin-off-launches-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/19\/vampire-survivors-crazy-dungeon-crawler-spin-off-launches-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Survivors&#8217; Crazy Dungeon Crawler Spin-Off Launches Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/180895cbfa68b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/180895cbfa68b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/180895cbfa68b\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"jaAEKYGnxrA\" data-start=\"0\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jaAEKYGnxrA?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\">\n<p>[embedded content]<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After its big reveal at the end of last year, Poncle has today announced the release date for it&#8217;s <em>wild<\/em>-looking deckbuilding, dungeon-crawling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/vampire_survivors\">Vampire Survivors<\/a> spin-off, *<em>inhales<\/em>* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/vampire_crawlers_the_turbo_wildcard_from_vampire_survivors\">Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Crawlers will arrive on Switch 1 and 2 on <strong>21st April<\/strong> for <strong>\u00a39.99 \/ $9.99 \/ 9,99\u20ac<\/strong>, which, given how many hours we&#8217;ve poured into Vampire Survivors, feels like a small price to pay.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have missed this one up until now, Crawlers seems to be just as addictive as its predecessor. This is a deckbuilding dungeon crawler, where you&#8217;ll be exploring familiar Vampire Survivors locales and taking out the enemies therein with your deck of cards.<\/p>\n<p>There are some roguelike elements thrown in along the way (of course), so we can expect this one to gobble up a good amount of our time, too.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a rundown of the game&#8217;s key features and a handful of screenshots from its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/en-gb\/Games\/Nintendo-Switch-download-software\/Vampire-Crawlers-The-Turbo-Wildcard-from-Vampire-Survivors-3055039.html\">eShop page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Snowballing, turn\u2011based carnage:<\/strong> Play cards in ascending mana order to land combos; each step multiplies the next card\u2019s effect. Use Wilds to extend the stack and keep going to 10, 20, 30\u2026 Can you reach infinite?<strong><br \/>Pick your pace:<\/strong> Either take your time and be tactical, or play turns as fast as you humanly can: The outcome is always accurate, we call it hyper for a reason!<strong><br \/>Deck-Building:<\/strong> Accumulate experience and level up to gain new cards, headbutt chests for customization gems and power\u2011ups; chase weapon evolutions and summon survivors to trigger cascade of effects and break the game.<strong><br \/>Crawling:<\/strong> Explore multi\u2011floor dungeons packed with something seldom seen in Vampire Survivors: functioning walls. And then all sorts of unique treasures and interactions. Find the shovel to dig into the next floor, that will most likely take place in the clouds!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: Poncle<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>Gosh, with only one month to go before this one comes out, we&#8217;d better get cracking with our backlogs now \u2014 lord knows we&#8217;ll struggle to get around to them post-launch&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/switch-eshop\/related-articles:195414 @ 1773961458 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Will you be checking out Vampire Crawlers next month? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] After its big reveal at the end of last year, Poncle has today announced the release date for it&#8217;s wild-looking deckbuilding, dungeon-crawling Vampire Survivors spin-off, *inhales* Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors. Crawlers will arrive on Switch 1 and 2 on 21st April for \u00a39.99 \/ $9.99 \/ 9,99\u20ac, which, given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}