Vampire Survivors coming to Switch 2, renamed First Survivaton

Poncle will release Vampire Survivors on Nintendo’s Switch 2 and retitle the game Vampire Survivors – First Survivaton. The studio plans to publish the Legacy of the Bloodmoon expansion across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo Switch and mobile platforms this summer.

The Switch 2 edition will offer improved performance and add mouse support. To mark the relaunch, Poncle issued a free 1.15 update that adds a new stage, new characters, new weapons and new Darkanas.

Legacy of the Bloodmoon will introduce 10 playable characters, more than 16 weapons and their evolutions, a new XL stage, and eight new music tracks. Poncle said the expansion will expand the prior Legacy of the Moonspell DLC with additional content and has permanently reduced that DLC’s price so both packs deliver comparable amounts of content.

Poncle described a new label, Survivaton, for its lineup of survivors-like projects. The studio explained Survivaton-short for “survive a ton”—will cover internally developed titles and collaborations that build on Vampire Survivors with major gameplay changes, large content expansions or genre experiments. Vampire Survivors has been designated Vampire Survivors – First Survivaton under that label.

The studio is developing Vampire Crawlers and has continued updating Vampire Survivors, including the recent Wet Update prior to the 1.15 release. Vampire Survivors began as Poncle’s breakout title and has expanded through updates and paid expansions since its launch.