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Awaken as a Vampire. Hunt for blood in nearby settlements to regain your strength and evade the scorching sun to survive. Raise your castle and thrive in an ever-changing, open world full of mystery. Gain allies online and conquer the land of the living.
V Rising is a survival, open world and base-building game
developed and published by Stunlock Studios.
Released on May 08th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 16 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Traditional Chinese, Thai and Ukrainian.
It has received 119,440 reviews of which 106,197 were positive and 13,243 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 17.49€ on Steam with a 50% discount, but you can find it for 7.23€ on Gamivo.
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 64 bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-6600, 3.3 GHz or AMD Ryzen 5 1500X, 3.5 GHz
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (Maxwell or newer), 2 GB or AMD Radeon R7 360, 2 GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 19 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Minimum System Requirements might change in the future
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Vrising is a one-of-a-kind top-down survival, Melee, and magic RPG featuring PVP and PVE, with WASD movement and a spell-targeting system that makes it both fun and rewarding. If you're interested in the PVE aspect of the game it has an extensive progression that relies on killing bosses and unlocking new blueprints to make you stronger, soft interesting lore, nice visuals, and one of the best building systems that will bring the designer in you, you can decorate and design the castles in crazy details, check some of the builds on YouTube see what some people came up with. It has one map but it's carefully crafted, progression takes you from one zone to another while each zone is distinct and well-defined, has its mood, and is set up with a nice attention to detail and nice mob variety. Now if you're interested in the PVP in short don't, spare yourself. Whereas the PVP is one of the most fun PVPs you might have it's unfortunately poorly balanced. PVP servers usually last 2 weeks before dying and you have to repeat the progression to enjoy another 2 weeks, Meta builds tend to be spammed in the open world and render the game very stale and boring, raiding mechanics haven't been optimized since forever, and feels like they gave up on them among other things. This game isn't a live service game it's an indie game and the devs said that they don't have plans or intention for players to keep playing this game forever, so it ends, your "endgame" will either be PVP or decorating and because it's not constantly balanced for PVP or quite frankly, they don't know how to, that's why all these issues exist, side note Vrising is from the same devs of battlerite, you can see how that one ended up. With all that being said Vrising till the time of this review remains maybe the only Melee and magic open-world PVP game outside of MMORPGs and it's still more unique since it has a targeting system that makes it skill-reliant All in all it's a great game and it goes on cheap, also all the DLCs are cosmetics, you just need the base game and you have access to all the contents.
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it's fun if you: 1. Play PVE. 2. Play with 1.5-2x loot modifier. 3. Enable teleportation with materials. Otherwise have fun wasting half of your gametime running around the map and gringing materials more than actually doing anything meningful
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After 150 hours, I am finally "done" with a singular run of the game. There is a lot of things to say about this game, the game has a lot of good points, but also some questionable aspects. The good [*] The game looks great! The environment design is very well done and the graphics are stunning! [*] The base-building system is very competent, in particular, the base relocation system is awesome and something I haven't seen any other game do nearly as well [*] The bosses are very varied mechanically and are all pretty interesting to fight (although I'm not a big fan of the fact that many of them spawn minions) [*] The game offers visually distinct storage furniture for each category of items, I wish more games did this! The slightly questionable things The combat The game's combat system takes some getting used to. Your dodge option has a very long cooldown (8 seconds), while bosses attack much faster than that. The bosses are designed so that most attacks can be dodged with regular movement once you know how the bosses's moveset work, but it still makes your first fight with each boss a not very fun experience. Furthermore, the game has a weird approach to healing - as in, healing is not really a thing. For the first half of the game, your only real healing option is "blood-mend", except it locks you in a T-pose stance while you heal, which is sub-optimal in the middle of combat. Starting the second half of the game, you do unlock enough skills and items to be able to make a build that can self-heal, however that remains limited, and there is in fact a hard cap on how much you may heal, and the workings of this cap are so unclear that I have still not figured out how it works after 150 hours. - To give you an idea, essentially, if you get take a full combo to the face, most of the HP you lost is unrecoverable and you just have to not get hit again. I can't say I very much liked that, it made some bosses feel like a DPS race.. The PvE I played on a PvE server with friends, we didn't want the pressure of PvP, and certainly didn't want the pressure of having to protect our bases from other players. After playing for a while, it became pretty clear that the game is very much designed for PvP and that PvE was an afterthought. Some of the boss/main quest rewards have no use in PvE... The game also does not let you teleport if you have "valuable" (which is a lot of items) items in your inventory, presumably so that other players can attack you and take it from you when you're on your way home, but in PvE that just feels like an annoying, arbitrary restriction. Another thing that is leans heavily towards PvP and has little purpose in PvE is the "Soul Shards", those are end-game equipment that drop from the last 4 bosses of the game, geared specifically for PvP (+15% damage to vampires, so other players). These can only be stored in their own specific (huge!) storage furniture, which appears on the map of other players (for base raiding purposes, so completely irrelevant in PvE) and they lose durability simply by existing. After having lost all their durability (within a day or two), you can only repair them by killing the bosses of incursions, a world map invasion event (which itself isn't very fun because very repetitive). Obtaining those soul shards on a PvE server left us wondering "what the hell do we do with those...?" The grind curve The grind curve gets pretty rough, it took me ~150 hours to "complete" (kill the final boss). You progress at a good pace until mid-game where the curve starts becoming a straight vertical line. It was rough enough that for a few weeks I was mostly just letting my servants do passive farming for me until I had enough resources to craft the equipment I needed to progress. So you know what you're getting into, according to the Steam achievements, only 5.2% of players have beaten the final boss, which may suggest that a lot of players have dropped the game before finishing it (maybe also because of the final boss being a huge difficulty spike) Yeah the final boss is something alright I'm not actually sure how I feel about it, but yeah as I stated before, the final boss is a massive difficulty spike - intentionally so, the boss was given multiple different opening voice lines amongst other things because the developers very much expect you to get shit on the handful first few times you fight him. I don't know what horror this boss must be on "brutal" difficulty and frankly I don't want to find out :), but I do have a lot of respect for the 1.2% of players who did beat it on brutal Where cosmetics :( This is a very minor thing all things considered, but I am a bit disappointed in the lack of cosmetic outfits. There is a cosmetic system which sees practically no use in the base game, it does see a bit more use with DLCs but still not so much, which feels like a bit of shame considering that the framework is there. The very questionable [*] The game does NOT let you pick a specific amount out of a stack of items. The game only lets you split a stack of items in half, which is incredibly frustrating. [*] Compounding with the above missing basic QoL feature, crafting tables are not able to take materials from nearby storage, forcing you to move around your castle a lot when crafting. This is pretty baffling as the game asks you to make specific rooms for each "type" of crafting (so you'll have a forge room, an alchemy room...) so it would be intuitive for the crafting tables to be able to take materials from storage that is in the same room. [*] Because of the above, crafting and storing resources felt like a genuine chore and takes much longer than it should :( [*] I talked about how the game has distinct storage for each category of items earlier and how that was great - but it's not perfect. Some items are categorized very awkwardly; For instance, Power Cores are categorized as an "alchemy" item, so you put it in either alchemy storage of generic storage, but power cores do not have a single recipe in alchemy, they're only used in forging and jewelry, so they're very unintuitive to store.. [*] The building system is overall very competent - except for stairs. The game does not let you replace staircases even if it's the same type of staircase with only a different skin, and that is despite having a feature that lets you easily change the color of furniture with multiple color options. The game does not let you remove stairs either if they're the only stairs connecting to the upper floor, so if you want to be able to change your stairs when you unlock new stairs, you NEED to build two sets of stairs for all your castle floors.. [*] Trading with humans is practically worthless, despite it being a hassle to do in the first place. Human traders rarely have the items you're looking for, particularly when it comes to seeds, seeds are incomprehensibly hard to get... [*] Some of the animal forms have very little use. Rat form is useful for sneaking around, wolf form helps you get around faster, bear form lets you mine big deposits of minerals, bat form lets you fly, and... spider form lets you... dig into the ground (???) to "hide from enemies and the sun", except you can't move at all and enemies can still hit you anyway?? and toad form lets you jump higher but there is seemingly no benefit from being able to do so? Conclusion The fact that the "good" section is a lot smaller than the rest of the review may be misleading, I'm nitpicking a lot, the game is overall very good, although I really don't get why would anyone play PvP? I also don't see this game being nearly as fun without friends. As for the replayability, ehhhh... I definitely don't feel like replaying even with the upcoming expansion, the game's progression is very linear
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I lost my best friend before we even finished playing this game together. I can't bring myself to launch the game to see our castle right now, but in the hopefully near future, I will. Just to remember him and all the fun we had gathering resources, and (sometimes) cheesing the harder bosses so we could get better loot out of it. I'll remember to feed your horse too. I miss you man. Hope you're casting your fave blood spells somewhere in the Beyond.
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Host your own PvE server, remove Castle Decay and Teleport Restrictions, halve the farm needed from items, and reduce the waiting time for crafting items. These changes turns it into a whole different, actually fun, game!
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V Rising is currently priced at 17.49€ on Steam.
V Rising is currently available at a 50% discount. You can purchase it for 17.49€ on Steam.
V Rising received 106,197 positive votes out of a total of 119,440 achieving a rating of 8.78.
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V Rising was developed and published by Stunlock Studios.
V Rising is playable and fully supported on Windows.
V Rising is not playable on MacOS.
V Rising is not playable on Linux.
V Rising offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
V Rising offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 6 DLCs available for V Rising. Explore additional content available for V Rising on Steam.
V Rising does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
V Rising does not support Steam Remote Play.
V Rising is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Stunlock Studios
Publisher
Stunlock Studios
Release
08 May 2024
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