Last updated on December 16th, 2025 at 07:35 pm
Vampire Survivors – Casual Game Review
Vampire Survivors is a Casual/Action game from Poncle Limited, first launched in 8th December 2022.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 4,795+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Vampire Survivors Stand Out
Vampire Survivors is a roguelite time survival RPG game with minimalistic gameplay.
The supernatural indie phenomenon that lets you be the bullet hell has arrived on mobile!
The whole game is also playable in 1-4 player couch co-op in landscape.
Hell is empty, the devils are here, and there's no place to run or hide. Survive as long as you can until death inevitably puts an end to your struggles. Gather gold in each run to buy upgrades and help the next survivor.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with roguelite and roguelike elements. Your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you.
Test your mettle against the legions of hell using your touchscreen. This wave survival will bring you the edge!
Stand against hordes of enemies, exterminate monsters and finish the game as a lone survivor! There is no way to defeat an enemy army without a collection of great weapons. This roguelike game has it all. Cross, garlic, king bible or magic wand? The choice is yours.
Upgrade your skills and become a warrior with unlimited potential. Take the most out of this hero survival – battle evil and dangerous hell creatures without mercy!
Starting Tips for the best attack survival:
- Take your time to grab gems and items, they won't disappear.
- Get two or three offensive weapons at first, but focus on leveling them up one at a time.
- Armour and Luck are good starting power-ups to spend money on.
- Refund power-ups often, it's free, and try new upgrade paths.
Waves of undead legions are all around, have you thought it’s going to be easy? The challenge is what makes this one of the best horde survival games. It’s time to enjoy an exciting rouge survival adventure.
Explore different stages and learn how to slay enemies anywhere, whether that is library, dairy plant, or old capella. Roguelite skill experience will help you collect bonuses and find treasure. You don’t want to be the last survivor with an empty pocket, do you?
Select your favorite character and begin the best adventure roguelike game of your life.
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We’re only just getting started. Expect improvements and enhancements as we continue to refine the mobile experience in Vampire Survivors roguelite role playing game.
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Vampire Survivors is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
General bug fixes and improvements
Added Online Multiplayer
Download & Availability
Vampire Survivors is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Vampire Survivors on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
And was pleasantly surprised at how well this game works on mobile! Im addicted to it on desktop, and this was worth the (free) price.
We love this game, its really fun, but our phone overheats whenever we play it. Otherwise, phenomenal game.
Love the game. Please make adding secrets on iPad easier. As of now they are just an annoying feature teasing you with what you could have.
When we play a game Im in school so we have to pause it but sometimes when we go back to our paused game or we go to another app then go back it deletes where we paused it and returns us to the menu preventing us from unlocking stuff please fix this.
The game is over all great, one of the best you can get for mobile, we would give 5 stars but it has a serious problem with crashing.
We have really enjoyed playing this game and we only have one request which will help us get this to a five star review. This game is on a mobile device and as such, they should have the capability of being interrupted without affecting the current game. Any type of interruption, such as an incoming call, or if you need to step away to do something will result in the game resetting itself and you dont lose the progress that you have made through that game it does essentially close out that game so our suggestion is to please find a way to help the game progressand allow players to continue where they left off. Thank you.
It wont stop crashing and the screen will constantly dim when its a random part of he game its never consistent with the map or characters that cause it. Ive tried literally everything we could to make it work again. We promise Ive tried everything. Its just broken.
Moving around the map is super sluggish. Would recommend a Backbone or some other external controller solution for a game like this.
Thankfully the game support landscape mode, but for some unexplained reason it only does so in one orientation, and it just happen to be the one that's unusable in our case. As an iOS developer ourselves, we know there is no reason to not support both landscape orientations. It's merely just an Xcode flag. Please, for the love of everything, fix the issue and let us play this otherwise 5 stars game.
Very fun action roguelike with short runs. No forced ads. No pay to win. More apps should be like this, no cut no buff.
Wish we knew attacks were automatic on a timer, we were pretty puzzled as to what the heck to do but its really fun now that we know that.
Castlevania SOtN meets roguelikes.
This thing is the perfect boredom killer, Im addicted to trying to unlock everything, when we first opened it up we were kinda disappointed but oh was we wrong this game keeps growing and growing with little secrets and unlocks and when your near the end of a run and your phone is lighting up like a Christmas tree, we just love it. And its free if you want even more there are dlcs. The game is great Im done glazing.
The weapon evolutions were not shown.
So the evolution and union screen is now blank and nothing seems to fix it.
The game relays on coins which you get form playing to purchase permanent upgrades for your person, a plus about this is no pay to win, but without these upgrades you cant really get to the end of a level even the first level, you just get to the same point and die because it gets ridiculously hard. So your going to have to end up playing 25+ times probably more if you dont know what to upgrade and die at the same point. Maybe Im just bad at the game and we think if you choose the right abilities/meta then you might be able to make it further, but we also feel like without the permanent upgrades you cant do much besides redo the same missions over and over again, die at the same part until you get enough coins to choose the abilities you actually want to play with. Personally not our type of game because of this, but its not bad. Its a simple and small game. We just dont like how hard it gets out of nowhere without the right abilitys and permanent upgrades, we just want to play with whatever we want and be able to do good, but we dont think its that type of game.
It is a good game but when you die and watch a video to revive, your character is revived BEFORE the ad ends. The ad plays for 5-10 more seconds with your character alive in the background. Once the ad ends and you are allowed back into the game your character is already dead again.
Unable to start the game after stage selection screen. You select a stage press start and nothing happens.
Can the developer fix the problem? We have already unlock the Grim Grimoire, but during the game, the weapon evolutions were not shown.
There is a lot of content but we wish there was more of a rogue like aspect and more upgrades so much so that when you go back to the beginning you are just invincible at level 1 and you can see how far you've come.
Fantastic game. Surprisingly deep and very very fun.
The game is fun and nice to play. We paid the DLC just to support the devs. Once we got all unlocks, we didnt bother to go after all secrets. It was a fun ride. GG.
One of the few games that are not greedy.
We would like to note that on occasion, the Royal match ad doesn't close before revive. And also that limit breaking pentagram only run with silent sanctuary can actually glitch if you try to fight one of the ring bosses. Honestly though, what a fantastic game. Will def be doing the dlc once we finish the rest of what's free.
Super fun and time flies when im playing it.
Vampire Survivors is a lot of fun. We like how the game is designed to make you lose every time so you can upgrade. We also like how its not pay 2 win because we HATE those games. Another thing we like about Vampire Survivors is the unique characters where none are alike. If the creators of Vampire Survivors made the game too easy then we wouldnt be leaving a review or even play the game for that matter. If you are the creator(s) of Vampire Survivors and you read this then we would be grateful.
A nova arma evoluda "Cutelo Celestial", crasha o jogo vrias vezes durante o seu efeito na tela quando h vrios inimigos no campo de viso do jogador. Quando h poucos inimigos na tela durante o efeito da arma, ela no crasha o jogo mas deixa ele lento vrias vezes e com muito lag. Creio que isso possa ser resolvido com uma pequena atualizao de desempenho no efeito da arma. Outa tambm com o mesmo problema a arma evoluda da rainha Sigma. Tirando esses probleminhas no tenho o que comentar sobre o jogo, porque simples de jogar e viciante. Espero que tenham mais personagens e segredos em prximas atualizaes.
This is 5 star gamebut 30mins game time without auto-saving is furstrating when we left game for a moment then come backmy game was reset.
The best of the best.game of the life.
Everything is perfect…but the forbidden scroll kinda too OP.
Love this game. No forced ads and the pc version is the exact same. Plus, what you see is what you get.
This game is so good that Ive easily put more hours into this than anything else Ive played in the last 5 years. Hope for more DLC because Ill buy it right up in an instant.
Best game to help pass time without micro-transactions being shoved in your face every second. More games need to realize that the experience is what sells the game; not skins.
Love to play the game but would love to be able to play with friends from our own devices instead of everyone trying to look at one screen.
This is an amazing game, better than any of the other survivor clones on the store. Our only gripe is that we lose our progress in the middle of a run if we leave leave the app in the background for a bit when needing to do other things. This should be addressed since each complete run is 30 minutes. Otherwise, this is a solid game.
It would get 5 stars but at around 20 minutes in the Gallo Tower our game crashes sometimes. Kinda a bummer when Im on a crazy run but this game is real fun nonetheless.
Its so addicting and we love it, but we have no sound at all!!! We deleted it and re-downloaded the app, update our ios, but ours still doesn't have a sound. Is this a bug? Please fix it.
Great game. Played over 100 hours on Steam. IOS version is basically the same thing, but you are given the option to watch ads when you die to get a free revives, bonuses, etc. As many others have said, often the ads will play (sometimes for what seems like forever) but the game will start back up without giving the player any control, so you finally make it out of the inescapable advertisement and youre already dead again. We dont even bother pressing the option now, and because of that experience Ive never watched the bonus gold ad after a game, either, because we just assume it wont work. Our time is valuable, and a quick way to get us uninterested in a product is to waste that time. However, once you get enough experience (read: stat bonuses) under your belt, youll never really have to bother with the paid bonuses anyway. We understand the mobile space and the aspect of making money, but this just feels like a cash-grabby version of a normally great game that is poorly implemented. Charge a nominal fee ($5?), include the DLC, remove the ads + ad buyout, and youve got a 5 star game.
The option to resurrect if you watch an ad kills your character again before the ad is over. The game is good, but this newer issue is ruining some of the fun. Taking a break from the game, hoping it gets fixed.
The good is there's a lot of progression and unlocks to achieve/acquire. Graphics, sound are ok. Movement is kinda slow, even when powered up. The bad is that the gameplay gets very repetitive and monotonous. Yeah there are new enemies and some treasures to pick up along the way, but it just feels like you're wondering around killing stuff over and over and over. And don't bother with the ad to revive after dying. It revives you while the ad is still playing, so you just die again, having watched an ad for nothing. Borderline 2-3 stars.
So you die get the option to watch an AD to revive. While waiting for the stupid AD to let you exit out the game continues. Only to exit the AD and die again. Fix this please! Why bother with this option if its not implemented right.
We love this game but we bought the adventures DLC and it doesnt work.
Let us start off by saying this game is very enjoyable and easy to progress in. We like that games are limited to 30 minutes and every run has a different outcome based on your abilities. Theres lots of secrets and discoveries, we find this very enjoyable! We know when you start the game there is a photosensitivity warning, we are not an individual that typically struggles with this issue. However, on the level Moonglow, without warning the screen started to warp and wave and pulsate colors. We found a setting to stop some of the motion but it was very difficult to look at or play through. When the stage moved us to the next area it got worse, with no option to turn off the motion. We had to give our phone to our boyfriend to try to finish the level because of how extremely dizzy it was making us. We feel this level really needs an extra warning to tell people about this. Ive not had these issues with any other levels and we felt extremely dizzy for awhile after not having our phone anymore. Like we said, we think its a great game. Its very enjoyable, but Moonglow really needs to have a second warning for players. We appreciate the artistry of the effect, but we found it very debilitating. We hope they can add this extra accessibility warning on the level, or add another setting to make it easier on the eyes perhaps.
A 5/5 star game. Leveling is fun, characters. Love mowing down hordes of enemies. SO FRUSTRATING that we set our phone down for two minutes after pausing the game, phone locks, and it restarts you? Right back to main menu. All progress lost. What? For a game that requires you to survive for 30 minutes to not have some sort of auto-save feature or feature which suspends your gameplay is a little ridiculous. Add that and our review would be 5/5.
The game doesnt pause when you watch an ad so you watch an ad for absolutely nothing. Game over.
Just dont watch any ads because it doesnt actually give you what it says it will.
Bought the switch version today to play with friends. Finally a game you can smoke while playing (dont get careless though).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.14.109
- Size: 664.42 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR, UK
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Poncle Limited
Last updated: 8th December 2025 | Genre: Casual, Action | Developer: Poncle Limited