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poncle needs YOU - to break the official Vampire Crawlers demo, out now on Xbox and Steam Next Fest
23 February 2026: The Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors demo is out now on Xbox and as part of Steam Next Fest 2026! Brought to you by the beautiful, twisted minds behind Vampire Survivors, Vampire Crawlers is a turbo turn‑based, card‑driven BLOBBER (that’s shorthand for first-person dungeon-crawling chaos) with rogue-lite elements, and you can play it now on Xbox and as part of Steam Next Fest.
Vampire Crawlers has something for everyone, from card game newcomers to the most diehard number-go-up gameplay aficionados. It will welcome players back to the dark dungeons of Vampire Survivors, but from a brand-new perspective – and will welcome back some of the powerful (and ridiculous) items from Vampire Survivors as playable cards to build your dungeon-crawling deck.
With the release of the Vampire Crawlers demo, poncle is also setting a unique challenge for its player base. Players are invited not only to just enjoy Vampire Crawlers – they’re also being asked to break it. That’s right, poncle want demo participants to submit their most unhinged clips for review; the more ridiculous, the better! We’re not joking, poncle actually want people to submit their funniest bugs and gameplay moments as part of the initiative - go on, it will be fun. It doesn’t matter if it’s screen-breaking combos, nonsensical builds, or even just your King Bible just does something weird - they want to see it.
The most broken moments of demo destruction will feature as part of “Lets Break Vampire Crawlers”, a video series spotlighting the Vampire Crawlers community and their… unorthodox approaches to deck building. For those who’d like their chance to be featured, head over to their community Discord, where you’ll be able to submit your gameplay.
To stay on the bleeding edge of Vampire Crawlers news, check out the game’s Steam page or join the Vampire community on Discord.
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poncle is a small game dev studio founded by Luca Galante, based in London. After cutting his teeth (fangs?) on a series of HTML5 projects, Luca developed Vampire Survivors as a pandemic pastime, hoping to improve his skills as a developer. The game was an unexpected smash hit and has gathered a massive cult following. Today poncle is a merry band of programmers, designers, artists and other game-making folks, working in dialogue with their community of players to make Vampire Survivors the best it can be. poncle has also started its own publishing arm, focusing on supporting devs who make great games and helping them get their games out into the world, such as Berserk or Die and Kill the Brickman.
