Vampire Survivors Dev Wants To Avoid GTA 6 With New Game -- "The Whole World Is Going To Compete"

"Rockstar's highly anticipated open-world game debuts on November 19, 2026, and for now, Galante is "not 100% sure" when he wants to bring Vampire Crawlers to market. But he hopes to avoid releasing the game near the release of GTA 6. "'I'm trying to avoid the Grand Theft Auto VI window. Not because the game is competing with GTA VI, but because the whole world is going to compete against GTA VI," he said."

""I realized that there were expectations. When you're playing a card game, well, by now it's a genre that's so well-established that people have a lot of expectations," he said. "They immediately expect to have a deckbuilding element that has a lot of depth. And so that's the element I decided needed to be revamped--that needed to deliver from the get-go. It's something that should be at the core of the experience." "Adding that big feature pushed our release date to next year.""

Poncle announced Vampire Crawlers and shifted its target from 2025 to 2026 after expanding deckbuilding mechanics to add depth. Feedback indicated the card-game components lacked sufficient complexity, prompting a revamp that made deckbuilding central to the experience. The added feature extended development time and moved the projected release into 2026, which coincides with Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto VI launch on November 19, 2026. Poncle intends to avoid releasing Vampire Crawlers near GTA 6 to prevent being overshadowed. Devolver has pledged to release a game on the same day as GTA 6. No final release date exists yet.

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