Cultivate Crops, Fortify Farms from Blood-Sucking Sympathizers
LISBON, PORTUGAL — 23 JAN., 2023 — Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire, the action-farming roguelike from developer Digitality Studios and publisher Freedom Games, emerges from the shadows and appears on PC via Steam Early Access starting Monday, 27 Feb., 2023.
Voltaire, the youngest son of the legendary vampire Dracula, has chosen to go vegan, much to the displeasure of his blood-drinking father. Run away and start a quaint farm in the woods to send dad a message: a vegan life is no missed steak! Prove vampires can survive with ethically-sourced food, raise crops in the daytime, and embrace the night by defending plantations from Dracula’s hordes of monstrous minions.
Under the protection of sunlight, hunt for 20 different seed types to sow a variety of crops, including sweet crapples, bitter coffin beans, spicy skullions, and frightening fangmaws. Chase down giggling, wiggling water droplets to quench saplings’ thirst. Avoid overworking or risk exhaustion and the return of Voltaire’s brutish bloodlust, which may attract 16 types of nefarious nocturnal monsters to his location.
Empowered by the cover of darkness, defend the farm from Dracula’s mobs endlessly charging to cease Voltaire’s bloodless lifestyle. Grow a metaphorical skill tree to learn plant-powered parries, elevated vampiric forms, glaring gravity well traps, among 60 other custom ability modifiers. Survive the night to send a message back to a flustered, fanged father.
“Defending new ideas and lifestyles against older generations is a tale as old as time,” said Luís Nogueira, Co-Founder at Digitality Studios. “Voltaire has been a creative outlet for us to freely express ourselves and also examine why we love the farming sim genre so much. Those who are determined to change minds and hearts while growing a few veggies on the side, this is the roguelike for you!”
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire farms up whimsy for PC via Steam Early Access on Monday, 27 Feb., 2023. For more information on Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire, visit Digitality Studios’ official website, follow the team on Twitter and TikTok, and join fellow fortuitous farmers on Discord.
About Digitality Studios
Digitality Studios is a four person team from Portugal that takes a fluid, free-form methodology to game development. “Cute and silly” is the core of every project without the restraints of traditional genres. Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire marks the studio’s sophomore project.
About Freedom Games
Freedom Games is a publisher dedicated to offering best-in-class services to partners and providing players around the world with unique and memorable experiences. With over 50 years of combined industry experience at the executive level, Freedom Games seeks to leverage its expertise to facilitate great games and even better publishing experiences.
For more information, visit the official Freedom Games website.
