Vampire Hunters

Developed by: Gamecraft Studios
Published by: Gamecraft Studios

Oct 30, 2024$4.49

To hunt vampires, you'll need guns. Lots of guns. Mow down hordes of undead creatures by stacking your guns into absurd, over-the-top builds. Unleash your firepower and survive the mayhem in this Roguelite Survivors FPS.

Consensus

B71.1/100

Steam players89.8% positiveVery Positive2,200 reviews

Metacritic ↗Users: 7/10

VG Insights estimate ↗≈66K copies · ≈$576K gross

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Vampire Hunters is a first-person horde-survivor game where you collect and upgrade many weapons while dodging and shooting through swarms in 3D levels. He finds it chaotic and unique for its first-person view, and the first few hours were fun. He felt it was unfinished, with poor balance, repetitive gameplay and a broken final boss. He places it in low B.

Liked

First-person perspective is rare for a horde-like and feels unique
More mechanical variety than typical horde-likes: jumping, dashing, character-specific abilities, an ultimate
Characters feel different from one another
Meta progression is enjoyable
Different environments and visually cool bosses
The chaotic, messy weapon-collecting is fun in the first few hours

Disliked

Serious balance problems: some weapons are roughly ten times stronger than others and some feel terrible
Some items feel unimpactful and there are few character upgrade options
Runs are repetitive: the same move-to-edge, kite a train of enemies loop regardless of character, weapon or map
Unlocks require playing one particular character a lot, and he saw all weapons and items quickly
Bosses stop mattering once meta progression makes you strong, and the final boss Dracula seems broken
Feels dropped before finished; the party-like music does not fit the game

What players say

A first-person roguelite 'survivors' shooter from Gamecraft Studios where you stack up to ~14 guns and abilities while mowing down endless undead hordes across 30-minute stages.

Vampire Hunters is well liked by Steam players (about 90% positive across ~2,200 reviews, Very Positive, though recent reviews dip to roughly 75%). It is a cheap (about $4.49-8.99) Unity game that left Early Access on Oct 30, 2024 after an EA start in July 2023. Fans love the novelty of a survivors-like in first person with real aiming and a huge arsenal; detractors say it becomes a flat camp-in-a-corner loop with weak weapon synergy and repetitive music. Critic coverage is almost nonexistent: Metacritic has a single critic review (PlayStation Country, 80) so no aggregate score, and a 7.0 user score from only 5 ratings. Several players note updates have slowed, and one complains of no more updates, but others praise the devs for frequent content additions, and the studio lists PlayStation, Xbox and Switch versions.

Players love

First-person survivors-like concept: you actually aim, so it feels more engaging than top-down auto-fire bullet heavens (often compared to Vampire Survivors crossed with Doom, Serious Sam, Painkiller or Unreal Tournament)
Huge weapon and ability pool with absurd stacking builds (many guns at once, guns attached to guns), letting players feel very powerful
Big unlock and achievement list, multiple characters and lots of maps with different enemies and bosses
Level design inspired by Quake/Unreal, with shortcuts and platforming routes; bosses with map-specific gimmicks
Cheap price and strong value on sale; some players report 60-130+ hours
Retro PS1-style look and chaotic, silly tone, plus a story/ending some players found charming
Developer kept adding content in and after Early Access (one reviewer even complains about 'too much content')

Common complaints

Gameplay collapses into camping in a dead end or single-direction chokepoint and holding fire for 30 minutes per stage
Weapons feel unbalanced: many are weak, small magazines, and debuffs like bleed/freeze/poison are underwhelming; a couple of guns dominate
Little synergy between weapons; ten machine guns mostly just add raw damage rather than creating interesting builds
Enemy AI is simple (mostly melee walking straight at you) and enemy variety is limited, so aiming rarely matters
Music is repeatedly called repetitive and grating
Unity performance issues: stutters on good hardware, described by one player as poor optimization
Some glitches such as enemies stuck in walls in Classic mode making them unkillable
Despite the huge gun count, the power fantasy feels flat to some: upgrades do not feel impactful and the game gets easy, then boring (one of the most-upvoted negative reviews)
Bare-bones feel: nothing is explained, systems feel arbitrary, and only a handful of maps exist

Can feel tedious

30-minute stages with long stretches of just standing and shooting before a boss appears
Repetitive loop and repetitive music after a few hours; players say they have 'seen it all' in the first 30 minutes to 10 hours
Grinding unlocks and rebirth progression, including restarting character progression, and repeating the same locations
Confusing win condition: after defeating bosses, a late objective to close enemy portals while enemies become very tanky was unforeshadowed
Score/XP tied to difficulty modifiers in Survivor mode, making safe play feel punished and leaderboards farmable through camping

What's unique

First-person shooter take on the survivors-like formula (aim yourself, not auto-fire)
Two modes: Survivor mode (endless waves, 30-minute stages) and Classic mode (more traditional FPS pacing with rebirth levels)
Stackable loadout of up to ~14 guns plus artifacts with absurd, genre-mixing arsenal (miniguns, shoulder lightsaber launcher, magic frog)
Constellation-style run modifiers where harder settings give more score/XP, with online score leaderboards
Retro Unreal/Quake-flavoured arenas and a goofy steampunk and mythology bestiary (lizards, cat people, evil trains, insect bosses)

Players want

More map and mode variety, with unique mechanics or events per stage so each 30-minute run plays differently
Real weapon synergies (per-debuff scaling, cross-effects) and rebalancing so more weapons are viable
Characters and playstyles that interact with weapons differently (movement-based or stationary-based bonuses)
Better tutorial or in-game explanations of keywords, systems and the endgame win condition
Smarter and more varied enemy behavior (flankers, chargers, ranged) to discourage camping, plus cleaner spawn/pathing in Classic mode
More content/updates and DLC; some players also ask for multiplayer/co-op

Summarised from Steam reviews and community discussion.