Vampire Survivors, the hugely entertaining roguelike shoot-em-up video game published by Poncle, is set to get it's own board game adaptation through collaboration with Grey Fox Games.
Very little information is currently available as to what this will look like, but the video game was a new take on the "bullet hell" genre of games, in which your character levels up to become the bullet hell of the game. How this will translate to the table top setting is anyone's guess but the website is promising the ability to choose from a roster of "beloved" characters (I couldn't tell you any of their names despite having played the video game to death - I just play as the old man who smells of garlic), face an "endless swarm" of relentlessly spawning enemies, and to use and evolve signature weapons to "cut a path through the darkness" (honestly, it'll be a crime if they leave the stinky garlic out of the mix).
In the video game, the Red Death was the final enemy of any level. Unbeatable, unstoppable, and unavoidably final. If the scant amount of information pre-Kickstarter campaign is to be believed, it will be making an appearance in the board game version.
The Kickstarter is set to go live this autumn but those keen to get project updates before then can donate $1 on the Grey Fox Games Vampire Survivors website and unlock a free deck box should they then back it on Kickstarter.
I am a big fan of the video game, which is deliciously moreish, so I'm keen to see what shape the table top adaptation will take and whether it will capture the frantic WTF energy of the early game and the almost godlike power-trip of a well-leveled character. The history of video game tabletop adaptations is one of mixed success but I would love to see Vampire Survivors become a Stardew Valley: The Board Game, rather than a Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery.
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