Vampire Survivors might continue to be suspiciously devoid of vampires, but it does now have a bunch of new cosmic sci-fi bits (clearly last year’s Among Us collaboration just wasn’t space-y enough), courtesy of its latest free update on Steam, Switch, Xbox, and mobile.
Space 54, as the update is known, introduces a new bonus stage going by the same name – officially described as a “cosmic border-realm between this plane of existence and a sinister, third dimension” – as well as two new characters to deploy.
One of those characters, Space Dude, is the star of developer Poncle’s energetic Space 54 trailer (or Space-54, or Space54 – the studio doesn’t seem to have entirely made its mind up), and there’re also four new weapons, a new relic, and seven new EXTRA achievements.
These latest achievements, as explained over in Poncle’s update notes, are all inspired by open-source game framework Phaser, which was originally used to create Vampire Survivors. “If I hadn’t loved working with [Phaser] to begin with,” the notes explain, “I would have probably never made VS, so I thought it deserved a bit more than just a line in the credits.”