Getting a tannery so I could turn hides into leather meant killing a boss. Many boss enemies carry blueprints on them for various upgrades. And eventually, when I brought a boss down, I was often handsomely rewarded. Each named enemy has some brutal attacks and special moves.įights were as much about staying nimble, dealing with additional enemies, and spacing myself well as they were about dealing damage. The studio previously worked on arena-MOBA games like Bloodrite and Bloodline Champions, and it’s in the boss fights that their past work shines through. In another camp, a frost archer could cloak herself and reappear, launching a volley of arrows in my direction.ĭeveloper Stunlock Studios is no stranger to this kind of combat design.
A foreman, driving the workers in a copper mine I discovered, could make the earth fracture and split with his strikes. The individual named enemies pack a wallop, too. While the world has plenty of territorial beasts to contend with, these zones are filled with mobs to mow through. Various named enemies have set up around the map, usually within dungeons or camps of other foes hostile to roaming vampires. While setting up a ramshackle domain, with some lumber walls and a wooden coffin to sleep away in, is a core part of the early game, it soon gives way to V Rising‘s major drive: hunting targets. It’s back at base that you can build new items, create wells of resources, and set out on long journeys for big targets. Keeping your own blood reservoir sated is good, but it’s also important to keep your castle’s heart fed with blood essence and powered. You get essence from killing enemies, and fill your own blood pool by feeding on them. The big resource is blood, which is almost like a mana pool. Thankfully, there aren’t pesky meters like hunger or thirst to keep track of while you’re harvesting. I’ve spent a solid amount of time just smacking trees, mining rocks, and collecting resources to turn into better tools for harvesting those resources. The new king of the Steam hill is a survival game, for sure. If you haven’t been checking the Steam charts lately, well, V Risinghas been steadily sitting atop them. After putting in a handful of hours with V Rising over the weekend, I can absolutely see why players are so excited about its prospects. And soon, I’d go on the hunt, and really see where V Rising would set itself apart for me. Soon I had a castle and heart, some weapons and spells to work with, and a domain to call my own.
Yet the isometric world and grim, gothic setting kept giving me more and more Diablo vibes. Crafting, scrapping, and surviving, it all felt familiar. The Steam Early Access survival game starts out just tasking you with making a vampire lord, rising from a coffin, and collecting resources. I wasn’t sure what to make of V Rising in my first hour or so with it. The Early Access survival game puts some novel twists on the mold
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