This is an excerpt of my review from: https://bitsandpieces.games/2022/06/20/bargain-bits-vampire-survivors/

Vampire Survivors is an extremely budget-priced roguelite-type game (just £2.09) where you wander around and biff monsters – so how well does it manage to deliver, both for the price and in the abstract? One thing about buying games that fall within the purview of bargain hunting is that you usually don’t need to worry about the time to cash ratio – for just a few quid, I’m happy enough to sacrifice this angle in favour of a shorter, more unique experience, or maybe one with an outstanding aesthetic flourish. Vampire Survivors represents the other side of the bargain-diving coin – it aims to nail a wee gameplay niche and offer a lot of replayability.

And that niche is mowing down comically-sized hordes of foes, selecting items and doing one more run, maximising the synergies between characters, weapons and accessories for thirty minutes at a time. You repeat, find unlocks, chase down achievements, and do it all over again. All attacks run automatically; all you do is move the character, collecting dropped experience points and outmaneuvering hordes of enemies. Item selection and combinations are king here, and you can get permanent upgrades in between runs.

There's an occasional lack of build variety, with incentive to pick the same strong weapons multiple times only just outweighed by the temptation to get unlocks and secrets. Plenty of new items have arrived over the last few months and probably will continue to do so leading up to the game’s release. Vampire Survivors gets a big Bargain Bits thumbs up, with such a low price making it worth a punt for those who habitually play this sort of game as well as those that don’t.