Vampire Survivors Gets Big Castlevania DLC With 20 Characters and 40 Weapons Just in Time for Halloween

Hit indie title Vampire Survivors is getting its biggest chunk of downloadable content to date in the Ode to Castlevania expansion releasing on Halloween.

Developer poncle revealed a trailer for the DLC on X/Twitter, below. It contains more than 20 characters and 40 weapons alongside one massive stage “and more” for $3.99. “There’s so much content you’re guaranteed at least another 10 hours of gameplay,” poncle said.

A stylish animated trailer shows a combination of Vampire Survivors’ pixel art gameplay with slick Castlevania animations showing off a handful of the characters arriving in the game. Ode to Castlevania will come to all platforms where Vampire Survivors is available on Halloween.

the new Vampire Survivors DLC NO ONE expected! Ode to Castlevania is coming October 31st to all platforms 🍷

our biggest DLC to date, there’s so much content you’re guaranteed at least another 10 hours of gameplay 😈

🧄 20+ characters
💥 40+ weapons
🗺️ 1 MASSIVE stage + more! pic.twitter.com/lHjFm3cUFi

— Vampire Survivors 🦇🧄 Ode to Castlevania 31st Oct (@poncle_vampire) October 21, 2024

Vampire Survivors is a fast-paced and over the top gothic horror game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. It became one of the biggest surprise hits of the last few years as what launched as a humble indie game on Steam blew up in popularity and snowballed itself.

Poncle soon added layers of new content to the game and the core experience now offers 50 playable characters and 80 weapons to play with. That’s before the two major expansions too, not to mention the Ode to Castlevania DLC.

In our 8/10 review, IGN said: “Need a game to play while listening to podcasts? This is it. Vampire Survivors is outwardly simple but turns out to be an incredibly deep hole to fall down — though it’s not without extended dull periods when you get ahead of its curve.”

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.