Vampire Crawlers and a Big Besties Update
From The Besties by Russ Frushtick, Chris Plante, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy
May 1, 2026 · 58 min · Episode 496
About this episode
The episode discusses the indie game Vampire Crawlers and announces significant changes for The Besties.
This is a big week of change at The Besties. But before we get to the news, we all want to chat about one of the strangest spinoffs in indie games. Vampire Crawlers adapts the iconic Vampire Survivors into a dungeon crawling, roguelike deckbuilder. And... it mostly works? Stick around until the end of the show, when we chat about a big change for the future of The Besties.
People in this episode
Hosts: Russ Frushtick, Chris Plante, Griffin McElroy, Justin McElroy
Topics covered
- indie games
- Vampire Crawlers
- Vampire Survivors
- roguelike
- deckbuilder
- game updates
Keywords
- Vampire Crawlers
- Vampire Survivors
- indie games
- roguelike
- deckbuilder
- game updates
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Vampire Crawlers, Vampire Survivors
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