Vampire Survivors
BANGER · Roguelike · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Length
- 15.1h
- Value
- $0.33/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DX11, DX12 capable, 2.4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.69. That was December 2021. Its cuts run 25 percent off as a rule. There have been 38 in the 5 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 82 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. The nearest things to it, Overture ($4.99, scores 40) and Extremely Powerful Capybaras ($5.99, scores 11), are both worse buys on this math.
86 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
16 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2025 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 355 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 307 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 91 percent of the 9,084 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 15.1 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 53, 3.5 times as much.
It came out 4 years ago and 3.0K were still playing it at the last check.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
98% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 15.1-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
2,966 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
If you don't have time to waste, don't play this game. It's so addicting that you won't even notice how much time has already passed.
You won't understand it at first, you'll ask yourself "what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on". And then suddenly... you're couple of hours in, you're still asking what the ♥♥♥♥ is going on yet somehow say to yourself Just one more run.
if you enjoy the type of gameplay Vampire Survivors has to offer, then it's the literal definition of "More than meets the eye". Tons of weapons, characters, stages, mechanics that you have to unlock in either very obscure or convoluted ways (read: in a endearing way!), while at first glance it doesn't look like a very feature-rich game. It's not for everyone though: it can be repetitive to some, but personally I...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Vampire Survivors scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1794680/vampire-survivorsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 11, price as of Sep 23.
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