There are lots of reasons for the continued popularity of Vampire Survivors, not least of which is its low price point (free on Android!). But low prices will only get players through the door. What keeps them coming back toone of Android’s best gamesagain and again is the sheer abundance of content. Whether that’s unlockable items, DLC, or massive updates that keep the game fresh, there’s always something else to discover. But it can be daunting trying to make sense of all the content if you’re a new player or if you’re coming back after a break. And while you’re delving into all the secrets Vampire Survivors has to offer, you should take a peek at these not-so-secrettop-tier gaming phones.
Vampire Survivors stages are the grand tapestry upon which the game is embroidered. Some characters are only unlockable by playing certain stages, and your performance can determine if you unlock the next. With a few exceptions, there are two ways to unlock new stages in Vampire Survivors: reaching a set level in a specific stage or unlocking Hyper Mode by defeating the 25-minute boss in a level.
Reach a level
Defeat a stage boss
Characters
Unlocking new charactersto play is one of the most satisfying feelings in gaming, and Vampire Survivors has no shortage of character unlocks. Some unlocks require you to get good with a particular weapon, some require you to kill thousands of a particular mob, and others you just have to find lying around.
Power up items
Kill monsters
Find coffins
In each of the first five stages, there’s a coffin lying around with an unlockable character. To get your Kinder Surprise, you’ll have to beat the ring of coffin guardians first, then purchase your new character on the character select screen. If you’re not sure how to find a coffin, get the Milky Way Map from the Dairy Plant first, then the coffin will be marked by a “?” on your map.
Legacy of the Moonspell
Tides of the Foscari
There are 32 base weapons available in Vampire Survivors and six weapon slots to fill. That means there are 652,458,240 possible weapon combinations, not taking into account weapon evolutions and unions. If you played a different combination of weapons every day, it would take you over one million years to go through them all. We can’t give you one million years, but we can help you unlock a few of them andrecommend a few weapons of our own.
The most common way to unlock a weapon is by surviving for a set amount of time, usually with a specific character.
Items are the seasoning that brings out the flavor of every Vampire Survivors playthrough. The right combination of items and weapons can unlock powerful weapon evolutions and turn your run from boring to based. There are a few different ways to unlock new items, but most of them boil down to leveling up weapons and surviving.
Level up weapons
You can unlock most weapons and items with the spell “everywhere” which also unlocks any of the first five stages you haven’t unlocked.
PowerUps are the key to making your characters more powerful in the early game before you start amassing a horde of Golden Eggs. Most PowerUps are available right from the beginning, but there are a few that need to be unlocked, and for those, we’ve got you covered.
The Arcana is a system that allows you to modify the behavior of your weapons or the strength of your stats during a playthrough. With a few exceptions, there are only two ways to unlock new Arcana.
Reach level 50
Survive until minute 31
There are two ways to reach the 31-minute mark in a stage: incapacitate Death with the Clock Lancet/Infinite Corridor, or unlock Endless Mode, removing Death from the equation.
Relics are one-time items that permanently unlock new functionality in the game. Most of them don’t change the gameplay too much, but some of them are essential to unlocking all the content in the game.
Find on the ground
All of these except the Yellow Sign will have a green arrow pointing to their location on the map. In the case of the Yellow Sign, it will be at the end of a long passage with nowhere else to go.
Defeat a boss
These two relics can only be earned after picking up the Yellow Sign at the end of the Holy Forbidden stage.
Go forth and slay
That’s a lot of content to unlock, but there are still a few secrets for you to unearth on your own. If this is all old news to you, but you’re still hungry for more content like Vampire Survivors, check out some ofthe best Vampire Survivors cloneson the Play Store.
