The developer Luca Galente had a huge success on Steam with his indie game, but he is convinced that he was lucky.
Which game is it about? Vampire Survivors is a popular indie game on Steam. The roguelite relies on a retrostile in pixel graphics and costs less than € 5. Since its release, it has been able to collect over 243,000 positive reviews on Steam. With 98 % positive reviews, it is one of the 4 best rated platform (via SteamdB).
In Vampire Survivors you have to survive in the fight against countless monsters that approach from all directions. Your character performs the various attacks independently. Your task is to avoid the malicious creatures and gain experience points.
With every level climbing, the game presents a selection of weapons that you can use for defense – including garlic, an ax or a Bible. In addition, there are permanent upgrades for your character, items with passive effects and new, activable characters with different weapons.
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Success was too fast to be stolen
What does the developer say? The indie developer Luca Galente is behind vampire survivors. In an interview, the latter said that he was lucky with the success of his game (via games radar).
“The first thing I noticed was the literal plagiarism. People copied vampires survivors and published it in other shops, ”says Galente and continues,“ there are companies whose only goal is to observe which games are successful […] And then to create a clone very quickly. “
Galente finds it “great” when he can inspire developers with his own works, but criticizes people who only want to make money with the latest trend. This approach “kill the little indie games,” he says, which is why they fail.
Galente believes that he was just lucky in this situation as an indie developer. His game sold too quickly to steal the success of similar games: “I was lucky. My success was at lightning speed. The players noticed me before any vulture could notice the increase in sales. ”
Vampire Survivors managed to inspire many developers into new games and to justify a kind of own genre, which is often referred to as survivors-like. The extremely popular Koop shooter Deep Rock Galactic has also received a Survivors-Like branch: New game will be an exciting mix of 2 of the best games on Steam