The Scale

The Monstergirl Scale

For determining if a game is like Vampire Survivors

-1 to 1 in 60 categories

Genre

1. Rogue-Lite 2. Auto-Shooter / Auto-Battler 3. Real Time 4. Top-Down or Isometric 5. Direct Control of Single Avatar Camera Usually Centered on Player 6. Arcade Style (Little Plot) 7. Bullet Heaven A Many Player Shots 8. Bullet Heaven B Few Enemy Shots / Damage on Touch Focus

Simple Movement Focused Controls

9. One Handed Play (With Controller) 10. Move Only 11. No Dash / Dodge 12. No Trigger 13. No Special Move Button 14. No Aiming 15. No On Attack / On Aim Movement Penalty

Survival Game Modes

16. Timed Survival / Boss Mode 17. Endless Mode 18. Unannounced & Organic Waves 19. High Enemy Count / "Horde"

Power Progression

20. Level on XP Gain Run Event 21. Streamlined Level Choices 22. Currency Based Meta Unlocks 23. Goal Based / Find Based Meta Unlocks

Depth of Buildcrafting

24. Build Crafting 25. Impactful Level / Item Options 26. Weapon Combination / Evolution 27. Interesting Weapon, Item & Ability Synergy 28. Invincible / Broken Builds Possible

Map / Level Features

29. Explorable Map 30. BIG Maps 31. XP / Currency on Ground 32. Health on Ground 33. Temp Powerups / Items on Ground 34. Treasure Chests / Loot Events 35. Vendors on Map / Run

Depth and Breadth of Content

36. Enemy Variety 37. Elites & Bosses 38. Many and /or Interesting Characters 39. Many Challenges 40. Multiple Stages 41. Difficulty Modifiers 42. Bestiary / Lore 43. Achievements 44. Secrets

Aesthetics

45. Retro / Pixel Art Style 46. Damage Numbers 47. Lo-Fi Charm 48. Bumpin' Music 49. Unique / Fun Names / Writing 50. Subtle Humor

Gameplay Vibe Check

51. Panic & Zen Duo Vibe 52. Over The Top 53. "One More Run" / Short Runs 54. Difficulty Ramp 55. Fun Ramp 56. Low Price 57. Technical Check / Functional Polish 58. Controls Check 59. Fun Check 60. Feels like VS

How to Tally

-1 to 1 in 60 Categories
Scoring in 10ths
(example: -.4 or .8)

1: Feature Fully Present
0: Feature Missing
-1: Critical Difference

Tip:

Rely Heavily on Vibes!

Report as number out of 60,
Or Convert into 10 Point Score.

The scale "assumes you're
ranking a very "similar game.
In theory a final score can be negative.

See Definitions for a full explanation of every category on the similarity and review scales. See scoring guide for detailed examples.

Comparison Scale Examples:

Vampire Survivors

10.0 | 60

Halls of Torment

9.0 | 53.9

Chess Survivors

8.0 | 48.0

20 Minutes Till Dawn

6.8 | 40.8

Risk of Rain

5.1 | 30.7

Hades

4.4 | 26.3

Returnal

3.2 | 19.4

Rogue

1.0 | 6.1

Elden Ring

-1.9 | -11.3

Call of Duty 2

-3.8 | -22.9

Fun at Home!

Score games yourself with The Scorecard!

Argue about it on the playground!

Patch Notes Archive

Home » Updates » Patch Notes Feed » The Void Rains Upon Her Heart » Update #78 Winter Sale?

Patch notes are imported from steam. There may be errors. This mostly exists so I can stay on top of them to update the features in our tags and scoring categories (which I do manually), but since many of you liked the idea of staying up to date with all the games in one place I'm working on making this data automated (right now I manually hit it every couple days) with better info and linking in with the game views.

There will be more data and proper atribution here (original author, steam link, original post date, etc) real soon, I promise. This is just like a technical test to see if they're coming in ok at all.

The Void Rains Upon Her Heart » Update #78 Winter Sale?

So why isn’t this game on sale this time? Well, the 30 day cooldown described in the previous update ran out one day after this sale started. It seems like it might not be possible to join this sale part way through. We are going to wait until tomorrow, but if it doesn’t work by then, we will be setting our own sale to start on the 24th at 10 AM PST! If steam still doesn’t let us do that, I’m simply going to explode.

(I am so exhausted from this. It sucked a lot of my drive out on this one, but here’s what I got done for this update)

Early Access updated game version to v8.2

Content Added
  • 24 new bounties (Total: 37)
  • Added memory text to all blessings and burdens in the Glass Flora and Veyeral categories (+Anomalies)
Updates and tweaks
  • Increased the score bonus for almost all bounties
  • Adjusted score limits for score gained from bonus gifts and bounties in tower runs. Shorter towers have lower limits
  • Increased the duration of some quick gifts
  • Rebalanced a few blessings and burdens
Specific Gift Adjustments
  • Quick Gift: Small Vitality duration 1 -> 3
  • Quick Gift: Large Vitality duration 1 -> 3
  • Quick Gift: Super Vitality duration 1 -> 3
  • Quick Gift: Armor Heart duration 1 -> 3
  • Quick Gift: Terror duration 1 -> 3
  • Blessing: Syncron now increases helper damage +15%
  • Blessing: Shiny Veyerals helper focus rate increased +25% -> +30%
  • Blessing: Duality duration 3 -> 2
  • Burden: Shiny Rendy shot speed -20% -> -30%
  • Burden: Alter Shanx rank 2 -> 1
  • Burden: Monovai only appears if you have helpers
  • Burden: Flip Flap only appears if you have helpers
  • Burden: Frozen Veyeral duration 4 -> 3
  • Burden: Nix Polyps duration 2 -> 4
Bug Fixes
  • In the stats page, the total shown percentage of bonus gifts was a wrong value

Coming Soon

Next update I’m going to focus on completing at least one of the new 7 monster set. I’ll try to get multiple done as the gems were pretty quick too. But there is a little extra set up to them since they are not “common” monsters. I still have to decide how they will be encountered in story mode.

Next update will be on Jan 12th!

All this regional price nonsense should be dealt with by then and I can stop worrying about it ugh!

Thank you for playing!
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