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Awaken as a weakened vampire, hunt blood and boss powers, evade daylight, and build a castle while surviving Vardoran.
Released 08 May 2024
Hunt for Blood
Dodge Daylight
Build a Gothic Castle
Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
Developed by Stunlock Studios · Published by Stunlock Studios
You awaken as a weakened vampire in Vardoran and must regain your strength by hunting for blood. Sunlight threatens you outdoors, so timing expeditions around day and night—and moving through shade—shapes how you travel and survive.
Explore settlements, wilderness, and other regions to gather resources, fight enemies, and track supernatural bosses. Combat combines aimed attacks, weapon skills, and spells; different blood types provide different bonuses, while defeated bosses grant new powers.
Bring materials back to your castle to craft equipment and build work areas, rooms, and decorations. Boss victories unlock further recipes, abilities, and building options, creating a cycle of preparation, exploration, and tougher fights. Play solo, cooperatively, or in online PvP.
Many supplied reviewers enjoy how the vampire theme shapes survival, especially the need to seek blood and avoid sunlight. Castle building, varied weapons and abilities, and boss fights that unlock new options are recurring sources of enjoyment, and some players particularly value tackling the world with friends. Others find resource gathering and crafting slow, travel tedious, or later boss encounters frustrating; some also criticize PvP-focused balance in PvE play.
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Experience a Vampire Survival Action RPG adventure like no other.
Awaken as a weakened Vampire after centuries of slumber. Hunt for blood to regain your strength while hiding from the scorching sun to survive. Build a mighty castle worthy of your name and convert humans into loyal thralls to serve your growing empire. Pillage villages, raid bandit camps, and challenge supernatural beings, drinking their blood to steal their power. Make allies or enemies online or play solo locally and wage war in a world of conflict.
Seize your destiny, defy Dracula, and rise as the ultimate predator to rule the night!
Now with native gamepad support and a reimagined interface, prepare for action-packed, hands-on gameplay!
Explore a vast world teeming with mythical horrors and danger. Travel through lush forests, open countryside, and dark caverns to discover valuable resources, meeting friends and foes alike along the way. Traverse the world with vampire comrades or hunt solo as you ravage villages, fend off holy soldiers, and challenge supernatural bosses.
Stick to the shadows during the daytime, or the burning sunlight will turn you to ashes. Roam the night and prey on your victims in the darkness. As a vampire, you must quench your thirst for blood while planning your strategies around the rising and setting sun.
Gather resources and discover ancient techniques to uncover forgotten knowledge. Use your newly acquired insight to build a castle to store your loot and grow your army of darkness. Personalize your domain, exhibit your vampiric style, and make sure to craft coffins for servants and friends. Strengthen your castle to protect your treasure hoard from vampire rivals.
Travel alone or explore the world with friends. Fighting side by side with other Vampires will give you an advantage in the fight to conquer the greatest threats of Vardoran. Raid other players’ castles, play the diplomat in the game of blood, power, and betrayal, or craft an indomitable retinue of insidious allies. Compete or cooperate - the choice is yours.
Learn and master an arsenal of deadly weapons and unholy abilities. In V Rising, you aim skillshots and dodge projectiles using precise WASD controls and cursor-based aiming - no click to move. Tailor your vampire to fit your play style by combining weapons with a variety of spells earned through vanquishing powerful foes. Find and master your personal, perfect blend of sword and sorcery to become the ultimate nocturnal predator!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 49 |
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| Players | 1–100 |
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| Multiplayer | V Rising supports solo play and multiplayer through online or LAN servers. It includes both cooperative PvE and competitive PvP play, with server-based rules that can enable or disable raiding and other settings. Official and private/community servers are mentioned, and reviews cite formats including solo, duo, small-group, and larger servers. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Reviews mention mods adding value and replayability, and player-made arena maps and modes. No provided source confirms official mod support or how mods function across multiplayer beyond private/community server use. |
| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 6 listed on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
