V Rising’s Huge Success Has Even Taken Its Developers By Surprise
Image: V RisingV Rising came out on May 18, and I would bet that on May 17 almost none of you would have ever heard of the game in your lives. One week later and it’s sold over 500,000 copies, and as I type this is being played by more people on Steam than Elden Ring.So what’s V Rising? It’s a vampire game where you get to create your own character and do some fighting. More specifically—and you’ll have to bear with me on this—it’s a vampire game that is a little bit of loads of other games all rolled into one. There’s some Diablo there. But also some base-building. Some survival stuff. Adventuring in an open world. And it supports co-op but also competitive multiplayer. Oh, and it’s still in Early Access.It’s a mixed bag, then, but those are all also exactly the kinds of games that PC-cen...