Nicolas Cage’s Renfield Gets Video Game Adaptation That Looks a Lot Like Vampire Survivors
Nicolas Cage’s Dracula movie Renfield is getting a video game adaptation that looks a lot like the indie smash hit Vampire Survivors.
Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood is available from Steam Early Access for $4.49 / €4.99 / £4.49 and is inspired by the events of the Renfield movies, but featuring familiar vampire-based single-player chaos.
James Deighan, founder of developer Mega Cat Studios, said: Working with Skybound, Universal Games and Digital Platforms on this is an incredible opportunity for us. ”
The player can select different characters, each with their own special stats and abilities, before dropping them into different levels to cut through hordes of enemies. Dracula also imposes “constantly hilarious fetch quest demands” on players that mimic the film’s storyline.
Vampire Survivors launched in December 2021 and quickly blew up with its unique chaotic gameplay that allowed players to choose from a variety of characters to cut through hordes of enemies. Following its viral success, developer Poncle quickly announced plans to support it with tons of post-launch content, and within months he was at the top of Steam’s list of most-played games. became.
Earlier this year, Poncle said it had been forced to rush development of the mobile version due to the number of accurate clones on the market, stating, “We are forced to release mobile games as soon as possible, and we want developers to It gave me a lot of stress,” he said. A team that was never even supposed to worry about mobile in the first place. ”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and UK news editor. He talks about witchers all day long.
