V Rising
Experience a Vampire Survival Action RPG adventure like no other.Awaken as a weakened Vampire after centuries of slumber. Hunt for blood to regain your strength while hiding from the scorching sun to survive. Rebuild your castle and convert humans into your loyal servants in a quest to raise your Vampire empire. Make allies or enemies online or play solo locally, fend off holy soldiers, and wage war in a world of conflict. Seize your destiny! Defy Dracula! Rule the night!Now with native gamepad support and a reimagined interface, prepare for action-packed, hands-on gameplay!
A Gothic Open-World
Explore a vast world teeming with mythical horrors and danger. Travel through lush forests, open countryside, and dark caverns to discover valuable resources, meeting friends and foes alike along the way. Traverse the world with vampire comrades or hunt solo as you pillage villages, raid bandits, and delve into the domains of supernatural beasts.
Fear the light – Rule the night
Stick to the shadows during the daytime, or the burning sunlight will turn you to ashes. Roam the night and prey on your victims in the darkness. As a vampire, you must quench your thirst for blood while planning your strategies around the rising and setting sun.
Raise your Castle
Gather resources and discover ancient techniques to uncover forgotten knowledge. Use your newly acquired insight to build a castle to store your loot and grow your army of darkness. Personalize your domain, exhibit your vampiric style, and make sure to craft coffins for servants and friends. Strengthen your castle to protect your treasure hoard from vampire rivals.
Compete or Cooperate
Travel alone or explore the world with friends. Fighting side by side with other Vampires will give you an advantage in the fight to conquer the greatest threats of Vardoran. Raid other players’ castles, play the diplomat in the game of blood, power, and betrayal, or craft an indomitable retinue of insidious allies. Compete or cooperate – the choice is yours.
Master your Vampire
Learn and master an arsenal of deadly weapons and unholy abilities. In V Rising, you aim skillshots and dodge projectiles using precise WASD controls and cursor-based aiming – no click to move. Tailor your vampire to fit your play style by combining weapons with a variety of spells earned through vanquishing powerful foes. Find and master your personal, perfect blend of sword and sorcery to become the ultimate nocturnal predator!
Steam User 499
Great game that's worth the price. Your progression is based almost entirely on bosses. Want to start collecting iron? Time to go kill the boss that allows you to start smelting iron. Not only that, but the boss also gives you an ability you can use. The base building is awesome, the combat feels great, and the overall aesthetic is really appealing.
The only negatives for this game are:
- Pacing is really great until you're about 15-20 hours in and things become quite a bit Grindy.
- Things take real-life time to be completed. Converting a villager into a vampire spawn? Okay, it will take you 5 hours. This can be changed in your own custom server if you wish
- PVP can be a negative for some people, especially since progression is based around the bosses you need to fight. The bosses are in the open world and therefore, are free game for anyone. It can be annoying when a really high level player is in the beginner zones farming resources, because they'll just kill you while you're trying to kill a boss. It can be very frustrating. However, there are also PVE servers if you aren't a fan of PVP. I personally enjoy PVP, but I can see how it might be a negative for others
Steam User 321
This is a PvE review:
I like this game a lot, as it has many elements i personally enjoy in video games, from base building, items crafting, material farming, planning and preparing for boss fights, then unlocking new items and abilities to make yourself more powerful, and try to beat the next challenge.
What I like:
The blood mechanic - since you play as a vampire you rely on drinking the blood of your victims to keep yourself alive, however there are different types of blood that open up different types of buffs and bonuses for you. Say for example you wanna go farm for stones, why not drink a worker blood and increase the amount of raw material you yield. Obviously blood comes with different purity levels... so the higher purity you get, the more bonuses you unlock for that type of blood, so happy hunting.
The spells system - as you start the game you will have access to a limited number of spells, but from the beginning you will have a glimpse at a spell book that has a lot of hidden spell slots you need to unlock, the starting spells are useful enough to get you through the early game challenges, and you can even keep using them until the end if you enjoy them, but in order to unlock new spells you have to beat certain bosses, drinking their blood will unlock their knowledge and grants you new abilities.
The game wants you to experiment with spell builds, especially when fighting specific bosses, if you find yourself struggling it wouldn't be a bad idea to try different spells.
The jewels system - it's your standard gem system, where you enhance spells by equipping jewels on them, to unlock modifiers or boost the spells effects, you can find these jewels as random drops, but you will have access to crafting them later on, so you can customize and fine tune your favorite spells to your liking.
Boss fights - for the most part they are very well designed, challenging but fair and satisfying to beat, I managed to solo everything with the right spells, blood types, and practice, again the fights can be very challenging (especially solo) but they can definitely be won (I mean, I managed lol), some even can feel easy if you know what you are doing and have the right tools.
The fights are not won by thoughtless aggression, they are designed to test your reflexes for sure, but for the most part it's more about, patience, learning the boss patterns, putting a strategy for your approach and again having the right tools and buffs.
Gear Score - the game has a variety of weapons, armors, and accessories to use, you start with basic stuff and unlock more advanced and powerful stuff the further you play, the total score of equipped items determines the damage output against enemies, and how much damage you receive from them.
Different weapons unlock different skills to use the more advanced the weapon is. So you can go charging with a claymore, smacking and stunning your enemy, you could use something lightweight instead and be evasive and sneaky, or you could bring firearms and start blasting.
The servants - at one point in the game you will be able to convert strong warriors or hardworking farmers into vampires, granting them the gift of immortality, which they will wisely use to be at your service.. Forever...
you can equip your servants with items to increase their score level as well, and then send them into hunts that could last from 2 to 23 hours, in real time.. Once the hunt is over your servants will return with a lot of goods for you, which lower the amount of time you spend grinding for stuff.. Recently there was an update which allowed the hunts timer to keep counting even when you go offline, if you are not playing on a dedicated server, so you can now use the full potentials of your servants, if you choose to play solo offline.
Blood hunts - as mentioned in the start, blood type plays an important part in this game, and the higher quality of blood you get the better bonuses you will unlock, it's rare to come by the highest quality of blood in the game, I don't want to spoil a lot, but let's say there is a way to get hold of individuals that have high quality blood, and have them as guest in your castle.. make sure you feed them well, and keep them happy so you don't lose them... after all they have high quality blood.
Base building - It's good and intricate, if you enjoy base building it's satisfying enough, you need to plan where you build and place stuff, some machinery requires specific environments to work at full efficiency.
What i don't like (not much honestly):
Some bosses require more balancing, especially when it comes to adds spawning and the risk/reward ratio.
Spell/Skill balancing sometimes suffer from the game having both PVE and PVP modes.
Not having end game cycle with more contents/activities, which is understandable since the game is still in early access.
The game got a lot of improvement when it comes to optimization in the past year, but it still needs more work, nothing unplayable, but still needs more work.
For me this game is a real gem, it's worth picking up and playing if you enjoy base building, skill based challenging boss fights and a lot of cool mechanics to explore and experiment with, can be played solo offline, online PvE solo or with friends, and if you are young enough you can even try PvP :P
Thank you for reading this!! and remember this is only a one man's opinion.
Steam User 176
excellent game! best game i have played in a long time, but when i play solo could it please not require constant internet? in south africa we have severe loadshedding which kills our routers etc, would be nice to play this on my laptop when the power is out to pass the time.
Steam User 210
I wish this had controller support so I can play on steamdeck or just use controller on pc
Steam User 1247
Game already felt finished when it was first made available to play in Early Access version. Puts quadruple "AAAA" studios to absolute shame. It only got better since then.
Steam User 794
Basically if ARK: Survival Evolved and Diablo had a baby and that baby was big into Anne Rice novels
Steam User 248
The game was already incredible prior to 1.0. I knew controller support was coming, but the fact that they implemented it so well blows me away. Can finally play this on my steam deck. Well done.