V Rising Dev Announces “Most Ambitious Project Yet” Following Hit Indie Survival Game

V Rising is one of those indie games that found a niche and excelled at delivering what its player base asked of it, earning a Very Positive Steam user review score of 89%. That being the case, players have been clamoring for a sequel or its successor. In a recent blog post, however, Stunlock Studios revealed that it would not be making a sequel to V Rising, stating that “the journey to Dracula is a complete one as it stands.” Instead, the game studio is working on a new game in the same universe as V Rising, although it’s still early days, so it did not share much else about the game.

Being that the new Vampire game will still take place in the same universe as V Rising, it seems logical to conclude that it will be a spiritual successor, but Stunlock also calls the new game “our most ambitious project yet in our 15-year history of making games.” Not much else has been revealed about the successor to V Rising, but the studio has also commented that the new game is being designed around the studio’s ambitions, commenting that “while the core workings of V Rising are strong and have allowed us to construct a wonderful bastion of dark Vampire delights, that foundation can also be limiting.” This suggests something more than a few extra mechanics, better graphics, a longer story, or a bigger world, and the game studio later said that “Our next game will invite you to explore your darkest whims in a world of greater depth, danger, and mystery than ever before,” suggesting that there will be more to it than the current survival RPG genre V Rising slots into.