The game's title is a lie

[Greywander]

It occurred to me that not only are there no vampires in this game, but every run ends with you getting merc'd by Old Grim. Vampires and survivors are the only two things not in this game.

[:D]

so is your name. you aint grey nor do you wander anywhere

[The Renderer]

You're not as original as you might think:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1794680/discussions/0/5675129542138556262/

[Greywander]

Originally posted by The Renderer:

You're not as original as you might think:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1794680/discussions/0/5675129542138556262/

I knew it was a meme that there were no vampires in the game, I just thought it was amusing when I realized that there are no survivors, either. It's no surprise I'm not the first person to notice that.

I have to assume this is deliberate; it certainly seems to fit the game's humor. Some of the bestiary entries are a riot to read.

[The Renderer]

That's fine, just thought you might like to read the responses.

I never actually thought much about the title, it kind of sounds like they took two dice with semi-random generic gamer words on it and rolled them.

[Cuchi]

Is in another coffin, keep looking.

[aaargh]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝The cuchi killer⎠⎞:

Is in another coffin, keep looking.

okay?

[autumndragonfalling]

Well to be fair it doesn't promise either vampires or that you will survive, only that you will survive the vampires, which you can't help but do since there are none.

[BadEvilWrong]

How do you guys know that there aren't any vampires in the game? I just assume that I murder plenty of them, as 20 minutes in and I can no longer see a damn thing on my screen under all of the weapon effects anymore.

[themazingness]

The Itch page for Vampire Survivors says "The year 2021, Rural Italy, there lived an evil person named Bisconte Draculó, whose many evil magics created a bad world filled with famine and suffering. It's now up to the members of the Belpaese family to end his reign of terror and return good food to the table."

I take it to mean, this is the post-apocalyptic world Bisconte Draculó created, not necessarily that he's the big bad. Though maybe he will be, eventually?

Also, there is Nesufritto, an obvious play on nosferatu. So at least there is one in the game.

[Halfshell]

This game has lore???

Originally posted by themazingness:

"The year 2021, Rural Italy, there lived an evil person named Bisconte Draculó, whose many evil magics created a bad world filled with famine and suffering. It's now up to the members of the Belpaese family to end his reign of terror and return good food to the table."

Also isn't the tldr of that basically: "You will find wall chicken?"??

[Cpt. Charisma]

Wait, I thought the final boss was a vampire. He talks like one, anyway.

[Shahadem]

Aren't the survivors you play as the vampires?

That's always how I interpreted it. Especially since you unlock some of them by opening their coffins.

[themazingness]

Originally posted by Shahadem:

Aren't the survivors you play as the vampires?

That's always how I interpreted it. Especially since you unlock some of them by opening their coffins.

Yeah, there's this too.

Originally posted by Halfshell cat:

This game has lore???

Yeah, although the Itch page isn't exactly up to speed. This could all be considered retconned by now. It'll be interesting to see if we ever get hard facts. Maybe it's just a title that's stuck despite the main focus being hordes of undead rather than vampires specifically.