Vampire Crawlers Is Coming to iOS and Android on October 12

Poncle has confirmed that Vampire Crawlers will launch on iOS and Android on October 12, giving phones another opportunity to turn a perfectly innocent lunch break into an escalating numerical catastrophe. The card-based roguelike is a spin on the wonderfully excessive Vampire Survivors formula, but instead of simply manoeuvring through thousands of enemies while weapons fire automatically, players assemble card combinations during dungeon runs.

The interesting bit is that the mobile edition will include the game's new content available at launch rather than arriving as a neglected little sibling several updates behind. Poncle has also detailed more of the upcoming Death Parade material, including Mana Karoma, a purple card that can replace another card in your hand while effectively refunding its mana cost, plus a new Adaptability effect whose cost changes according to the previous card in a combo.

Four additional Arcana are planned, with Chair Game able to replace up to four cards when your hand can no longer continue the active combination. Pricing and store pages had not yet been published when today's announcement landed. Poncle has already demonstrated with Vampire Survivors that complicated-looking systems can work beautifully on a phone. Apparently it now intends to prove that mobile players also enjoy building absurd card combinations until mathematics itself starts asking for a break.