V Rising has sold 1 million copies: The vampire game rolls up the field from behind

The vampire survival game V Rising is burning up the sales charts on Steam: the Early Access title has already found a million buyers within 8 days.

At its peak, 150,000 players played it at the same time, V Rising is currently consistently among the ten most played games on the largest digital sales platform for computer games.

Developer Stunlock Studios took this milestone as an opportunity to add an offline mode to V Rising via hotfix, in which one does not necessarily have to be connected to a server, as was the case previously. That should reduce fears of contact among many other players.

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For me, the success of V Rising came with an announcement, as I already described in my article I think the vampire survival game V Rising could be the big hit in 2022.

Success with announcement

However, this has less to do with clairvoyance than with the history of Steam. You constantly see crafting and survival titles going through the roof there, especially in Early Access. The last game of this kind would probably have been Valheim, which reported ten million units sold at the end of April (and which I also like a little better than V Rising).

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Building and surviving resonates well on this platform, and if the scenario is relatively fresh, all the better. “Fresh” isn’t thematically right for the most classic of all undead subjects, but video games rarely do justice to vampires enough, which is why V Rising occupies an exceptional position.

However, the most important question has still not been answered: What do you actually call survival when it comes to the undead? “Un-survival”? “Underlife”? “survive”? Send me your suggestions. The best entry may feel bitten in the neck by me!