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Acclaimed vampire survival adventure V Rising is having a free weekend on Steam

If you're looking for something to sink your teeth into this weekend (apologies), you could do far worse than take a lo…

V Rising launched back in May after two years of Steam early access development, presenting players (and their equally elegant friends) with a rich, more-ish game of isometric survival, where the goal is to assert your vampiric superiority across a gloomy, gothic open-world. It's got a bunch of neats twists on the survival formula, all playing into the whole vampire thing- including a blood-sucking mechanic that gives you specific abilities depending on the creatures you drain, and progress that involves sticking to the shadows during daylight hours (lest you sizzle to ash). Watch on YouTube"V Rising is one of the most generous survival crafting games I have played," Eurogamer's Robert Purchase wrote in his 4 out of 5 star review back in May, "and at every turn, it finds a way to realise the vampire fantasy I came to it for.

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