Warhammer Survivors<\/a> is exactly what its name suggests: a Warhammer reskin of Vampire Survivors<\/a>.<\/p>\n Developed by licensed Warhammer studio Auroch Digital, with Vampire Survivors creator poncle partnering on the project, it’s a fantastic, heartfelt adaptation right out of the gate.<\/p>\n Indeed, it’s immediately obvious that an awful lot of care has been taken in providing poncle’s world-beating gameplay formula with a fresh coat of paint. The Warhammer settings, characters, enemies, and weapons are all there \u2014 but the game also relishes in dishing out smaller references to Games Workshop’s immensely popular fiction.<\/p>\n In particular, I was left pleasantly surprised by how often Warhammer Survivors pays tribute to the property’s tabletop identity. Numerous playable characters, for example, are unlocked by finding miniature figure paints scattered across maps.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, power ups can include rolling damage dice \u2014 actual dice \u2014 across the battlefield, crushing your foes in the process. You can even drop giant blast radius templates on top of your enemies if you’re lucky.<\/p>\n What I’m saying is that Auroch Digital and poncle clearly had loads of fun with this one \u2014 it’s not just a simple copy and paste job that takes advantage of the Warhammer name.<\/p>\n Oh, and it’s basically two games in one. On the main menu, you can pick between Warhammer’s dark sci-fi 40,000 setting, and its high fantasy Age of Sigmar setting. Each comes with its own character roster, maps, enemy factions, objectives, upgrades, and everything else, making for a seriously robust package.<\/p>\n Gameplay-wise, the title offers a slight twist on the absurdly addictive Survivors structure. Stages have a 25-minute time limit instead of 30, and I’d say there’s a larger emphasis on tactical thinking.<\/p>\n That’s because specialised opponents are more prevalent, forcing you to weave your way through the hordes in a more methodical manner. At least, until you rack up so many super-powered upgrades that anything in your path just evaporates anyway.<\/p>\n Yep, that same progression curve that makes Vampire Survivors so insanely moreish is alive and well here, although I do think it takes a little longer to hit those truly chaotic highs because of the aforementioned tweaks.<\/p>\n All in all, Warhammer Survivors perfectly melds Games Workshop’s property with poncle’s timeless formula, resulting in another exceptional roguelike experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warhammer Survivors is exactly what its name suggests: a Warhammer reskin of Vampire Survivors. Developed by licensed Warhammer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1304910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[249782,261901,342,154,55,6082,53,16,15,249783],"class_list":["post-1304909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-auroch-digital","tag-mini-review","tag-playstation","tag-playstation-5","tag-ps5","tag-reviews","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-warhammer-survivors"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117592530783765031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}