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Hello, yes, look, last year has been an absolute clusterfuck at poncle, but absolutely not nearly enough to stop us 😎
Thank you all for supporting us for yet another year!

No matter how cold and cloudy it gets, it's always summer at poncle. And always Tuesday.
Here's a handy list of what we've been able to unfuck from our big 2025 clusterfuck:

- won a BAFTA for Best Evolving Game
- published the free-from Vampire Survivors Wiki[vampire.survivors.wiki]
- poncle presents: Nao Games' Berserk or Die, Doonutsaur's Kill the Brickman
- COLLABS: Rusty's Retirement, Two Point Museum, Mythical Concept STARNAUT
- VS 1.13: The Coop, Emerald Diorama
- VS 1.14: Westwoods, Mazerella, Online Co-op, Ante Chamber, and Ode to Castlevania+
- Super successful VS Board Game Kickstarter
- Live events and an ARG at Lucca Comics, including the poncle Live Orchestra exhibition with Yoko Shimomura[www.teatrodelgigliogiacomopuccini.it]
- Vampire Crawlers announced

But enough with laurels, let's talk about 2026!

As mentioned a few times in the Steam news over the years, we've been busy greenlighting and kickstarting all sorts of projects, but we've always been quite cryptic about them. Remember the "experiments"?
Recently we started to see several fruits of all that work, like bringing VS spin-off concepts to other indie studios to team up together with (like Vampire Crawlers obviously!) or lending the base VS-Engine to other studios we like and that approached us with interesting ideas (like Warhammer Survivors), not to mention all the collabs we managed to put together for fun!

So, we're always at work on Vampire Survivors updates of course, but let's also have a look a bit more in detail about every game project poncle's been cooking outside of the main games:

Shortly after the initial success of Vampire Survivors, I was already thinking of taking some of the accidental core pillars behind the development of VS and to apply them to existing genres that I personally enjoy. Pillars like accessibility, immediacy, lightheartedness, and tons of sparkly stuff.
I knew I wouldn't have the bandwidth to do that entirely in-house for a very long time, that is why I tried to bring some of these new game concepts to other studios to start working together. This means that concepts like Vampire Crawlers have been developing in the background for almost 4 years!

Vampire Crawlers has been doing everything right since its very first prototype, so it's also the one that proceeded the fastest and that will be released in 2026. The core concept at the base of the game was to be able to play a turn-based combat system at any pace, even as fast as humanly possible, and still deliver accurate results. Everything else, including using cards to represent abilities, came second! If you want to know how that idea evolved, please keep following the Vampire Crawlers page because we'll talk a lot about all of its game mechanics over the next few months. Yeah yeah, we had to put "deckbuilding" as a buzz word, because that is a major feature after all, but the game doesn't really play like a standard deckbuilder.
I hope plenty of other players will be able to try and enjoy Vampire Crawlers as much as I do!
[Editor’s note: I keep clicking at the screen even after the battle is over, send help]