If you’ve scoured Twitch and Youtube over the past week, you’ll have noticed that a relatively unknown game is getting a lot of buzz. V Rising marks one of the best PC launches of the year, the opportunity for us to introduce it to the latecomers.
[Mis à jour le 23 mai 2022 à 11h56] After Valheim in 2021, discover V Rising, the unexpected new success of PC gaming. With more than 500,000 copies sold in one weekend, the small creation of Stunlock studios (Battlerite) is well on its way to establishing itself in the landscape of survival games. Yes, because despite its original look, this vampire game fits into the survival category, while taking the best of different worlds to create an explosive cocktail. In the race to become the revelation of the year, V Rising, offers us a face and a unique gameplay, a refreshing artistic direction, and above all, manages to charm us with its undeniable originality. Our tutorials and everything you need to know about the game, a little further down in this article.
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V Rising Gameplay
In V Rising, you play as a vampire, waking up after hundreds of years of slumber in a crypt. Your goal is simple, feed on blood to regain your former power in order to rebuild your fallen kingdom. If this game is fully accessible in single player, it is also made for multiplayer games. There are servers that can accommodate dozens of players each seeking to dominate a huge Gothic open world. Because yes, you can also welcome several blood drinkers in your clan and forge alliances in order to crush any resistance. Because resistance there is in the sinister lands of V Rising, whether it’s villagers to convert, bandits, fantastic creatures or simply other players.
To progress in the game, you will need to collect and craft certain resources to improve your equipment. You can also build your castle and store your resources. You will also need to hunt down important bosses to unlock powers and recipes. Taking the best of Diablo and Battlerite (for combat), Rust (for multiplayer), The Sims for building (yes, yes, I assure you) and Valheim (for survival and progression), V Rising offers fundamentally satisfying gameplay while remaining unique in its genre. Indeed, you control your vampire using the ZQSD keys on your keyboard, and can cast, combine and dodge spells in real-time combat, as we told you above, with a strong taste of hack’n’slash . Moreover, the more powerful your vampire will be, the more skills he will learn with devastating effects. In short, although it takes up many known elements of the survival-online genre, everything has a rather particular flavor, a little taste of iron perhaps, in V Rising.
Where to find V Rising?
V Rising is available in Early Access since this tuesday may 17. It can be found directly on Steam for the modest sum of €19.99. To be able to enjoy the experience, you will need to arm yourself with a fairly solid configuration without being aberrant, with a GTX 1070 or an RX580 recommended, an i5 or a Ryzen 5 and 8 to 12 GB of RAM.