This is a far chunkier game, with bolder, much nicer-looking sprites. It’s not an enormous deviation from the Vampire Survivors format, but the tweaks it makes are interesting.įirst and foremost is certainly enemy size. Spellbook DemonslayersĬurrently in a very early form, Spellbook Demonslayers: Prologue is already showing excellent form.
So, with a hefty acknowledgement that Vampire Survivors wasn’t the first game to deliver these ingredients, and indeed you could quite reasonably trace its origins back to 1982’s Robotron: 2084, let’s take a look at a selection of games to grab when you’ve finally tired of VS. So you can pretty much pick up everything in this list for half the price of one regular game.
VS set a weird standard by pricing itself at just three bucks, and so many others have, presumably, felt obliged to follow suit. They’re all incredibly, unnecessarily cheap. Or turn-based Automatic Horde Shooter.Īnother peculiarity of the genre is price. A lot of people are referring to “horde” games which is a good start, and given “automatic” is so essential, why don’t we agree on “Automatic Horde Shooters”? That’s clever enough, because it leaves room for people to far more interestingly innovate on the form with ideas I’ve yet to see, like say a first-person Automatic Horde Shooter. So let’s help things along by nailing it down.