Stunlock Studios is bringing its vampire survival RPG V Rising to PlayStation 5 later this year. Announced at Sony’s State of Play yesterday, there’s a new PS5 trailer and some details about the console launch.
The game made such a huge, successful splash on PC, and led to a series of improvements, including last year’s huge Secrets of Gloomrot expansion that added a series of new features, ways to build, and overhauled many of the systems. Stunlock is partnering with Sony and Auroch Digital to bring the console version to life, adapting the controls and menus, along with additional UI improvements, and a DualSense controller support.
V Rising puts you in the role of a newly awakened vampire who has to navigate a world of humans, survive, learn new skills, and to potentially rise up and become the next Dracula. Vampire, you will have to hide from the sun, find sources to feed on blood, and to both survive and even defend yourself in this Dark World in PvP or PVE combat in the realm. you get to build your own castle, which can grow to immense heights, pillage some villages, hold some thralls, skirmish with some of the bandits, and acquire other advantages. You'll get to know the terrain and what is generally where in order to figure out whether you want to be a conqueror and attack other players' castles, or if you want to engage in a society where you're more of a diplomat.
Taking a strategic open world fantasy survival RPG like this to console is a big undertaking, and it will be Stunlock’s first console title. This is where the partnership with Sony and Auroch Digital comes in, and we get a peek of how things will go in a brand new trailer that accompanied the announcement.
The Stunlock team shared a devblog on the announcement, and after searching for the right console option, are releasing the full 1.0 version exclusively on PlayStation 5. One of the other advantages of controller support and the work going into that is controller support will also be heading to Steam for PC players.
