Vampire Crawlers Arrives on Mobile Today With Deckbuilding Mayhem and Death Parade Update

Poncle is bringing Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors to iOS and Android today, October 12, giving smartphone players another opportunity to discover just how absurdly powerful a carefully constructed collection of cards can become. The mobile release is scheduled for 9am British Summer Time, equivalent to 10am in the Netherlands, with a reported price of $9.99.

Unlike the original Vampire Survivors, which built its reputation around surviving increasingly ridiculous quantities of enemies, Vampire Crawlers combines first-person dungeon exploration with turn-based deckbuilding. Players assemble combinations of attacks, abilities and magical effects before unleashing devastating sequences through the TurboTurn system.

The objective is familiar to anyone who has played Vampire Survivors: begin as an apparently vulnerable adventurer and gradually become a walking catastrophe for everything unfortunate enough to share the screen. The mobile release coincides with Death Parade, a free content update introducing additional playable characters, cards, Arcanas and challenges.

New characters include Big Troubler and Sir Ambrojoe, while the Moongolow Challenge Stage provides another environment in which players can test their increasingly unreasonable combinations. The developers have indicated that the mobile edition retains the gameplay of the existing PC and console versions rather than offering a simplified adaptation. That makes considerable sense because touchscreen controls are particularly suitable for selecting cards and navigating menus.

The biggest challenge will be resisting the temptation to play just one more dungeon before remembering that the real world still expects you to accomplish something today.