Unfortunately, the camera itself is cumbersome with no vertical rotation. V Rising utilizes a zoomable and rotatable camera the camera itself operates with few issues as intended. Terrian can be difficult to navigate at times with many backtracks or going out of your way to navigate with paths to other areas being slightly linear. The team at Stunlock Studios cleverly uses the lighting systems in V Rising as a mechanic with the player needing to avoid direct sunlight, moving from shadow to shadow. Featuring five different biomes with features that suit their accompanying region. Players will get a beautifully detailed and stylized world using the Unity Engine designed by Unity Technologies. But some may find the crafting and building tedious. Players won’t find many things they’ll dislike while playing V Rising, offering variety to build and level up. Constructing your rooms in the right way will the proper tiling will offer bonuses to your crafting tables, boosting their capabilities. Building your castle will not be as simple as constructing your ideal structure, but more thought is required to have the perfect castle. In the beginning, you’ll have an enclosed space with a few crafting tables, but soon you’ll be able to begin building your castle. Your castle will need to suit your needs as you grow. Like you, improvement is just as crucial to your castle building. But, ultimately, crafting is key to gaining new power and restoring your castle. These tasks can become tedious after a few hours. Crafting can also be time-consuming, waiting on smelting ores or leather to be tanned.

Crafting can be confusing at times, having to track down recipes by defeating the enemies containing v blood, so playing through can be held up looking for specific recipes needed for a quest. You’ll start with nothing and only have some basic crafting abilities, but gathering more resources and tracking down enemies will unlock further crafting recipes. Crafting will play a large part in this Stunlock Studios release. In our review of V Rising, we found it to be like many other survival games. Crafting your kingdom as a frontier vampire First, you’ll have to build a blood altar that will allow you to track these unique enemies. These creatures contain v blood which rewards the player with active and passive skills and new crafting recipes to build better gear and a better cast e. Gaining new abilities are done through the hunting of unique creatures. In your weakened state, regaining your vampiric powers will be one of the first things. Exploring more of these areas will open up new materials to harvest and use for upgrading your tools, items, and buildings. These locations will offer items to be looted, units to convert, and creatures to defeat. Stunlock Studios built a large open-world offering territory that will have various bandit camps, villages, farms, and strongholds.

Battle enemies of all species and obtain their power for your own, becoming the lord of all vampires. Set out into the vast wilderness, traveling through the ruins of land once ruled by your kind, and find the perfect for staking your claim. Risen from your grave, you’ll have to set out and resurrect the age of the vampires once again after being cast into the shadows by humans. Rebuild your empire and reign again in darkness and blood. Gameplay: Fun and flashy combat, with tedious, time-consuming crafting Unfortunately, if you’re looking for something with more of a story, you may want to check out something else. The story in V Rising is more of a basic plot to set up your character and then go off on their adventures. Hunt down legendary creatures to gain new powers and rebuild your castle, setting out to become the next legendary Dracula. Convert humans in the surrounding villages into an army of loyal followers. Then, heading out into a vast open-world, traversing the various territories to rebuild you’re fallen vampire kingdom. A weakened vampire, you’ll have to hunt for blood to survive. Find out how it is with our review of V Rising.Īfter centuries of slumber, you’ll awaken. With the Stunlock Studios release, we decided to check out the newest Early Access game. Now available on Steam’s Early Access program, players will become a vampire and set out to reclaim their glory. Released in early May, Stunlock Studios brought a new open-world title to gamers with V Rising.

V rising gameplay trailer