Vampire Survivors Tides of the Foscari brings deadly animal husbandry, espionage and much more next month

After a successful night at the BAFTA Awards, developer Poncle today announced the second DLC for its hugely popular title, Vampire Survivors. Tides of the Foscari takes players to a new region and sends them back to school to learn a few tricks for fighting their enemies.

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Vampire Survivors Tides of the Foscari continues April 13th and takes players to Western Europe for a DLC influenced by folklore and fairy tales. You will join the Foscari Academy and learn new killing methods as you fight your way through the Great Forest, which is home to all sorts of interesting enemies. The academy has houses that promote specific types of warriors. For example, Crimson Anvil specializes in architecture and demolition, while Amber Sickle focuses on animal husbandry, accounting, and farming.

Poncle hasn’t revealed much about gameplay changes yet, but we do know that the DLC will add 8 characters, 1 stage, 13 weapons, 20 achievements and 7 music tracks. It sounds like it will add a deep new learning system built around the academy and each of its houses. The only way to find out is to buy it at launch for $1.99. This is the maximum you will have to pay if you have access to Game Pass. Vampire Survivors is still live on Microsoft’s subscription service and will be through until the release of this DLC.

Vampire Survivors is an idle game in which you collect weapons and create a build capable of killing everything around you while this weapon pulses automatically. The sheer array of weapons and items you can collect to level up the various playable characters makes the title almost impossible to penetrate at first. However, once you get comfortable with the mechanics, it turns into a beautiful dance of death that you can’t help but return to again and again.