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 » Extremely Powerful Capybaras » Year-End Patch & Content Roadmap!

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.

Extremely Powerful Capybaras » Year-End Patch & Content Roadmap!

Greetings Capy-friends ! 🐾🎉

We hope you’re all doing well and keeping warm during the holiday season! We have news to share with you: this will be the final update of the year for Extremely Powerful Capybaras as us dev-baras are about to start our holiday season. We are very excited to also share our Content Roadmap with you, which we’ll be working on as we start the new year in January!

Below you can find our changelog to the final update of 2023!

FIXES
  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to select multiple ability boards while using the mouse in Level Up.
  • Fixed a Desync in the Level Up screen that happened if players used mixed inputs (for example, keyboard selection and then mouse selection).
  • Fixed Level Up sorting issues where one player would have no viable options to choose from. Now it should again be guaranteed that every player has at least one viable option during Level Up.
  • Fixed an issue in Shops that was causing stores to have negative prices.
  • We are aware that there have been issues with the keyboard and controller assignment in local multiplayer games, specifically players that want to set up a 2 player game with one keyboard and one controller. We’ve looked deep into this, but based on what we’ve seen so far, unfortunately a deeper rework of the controller assignment systems is needed.

    To be completely honest with you capys, the team is very tired, and after a very intense year of development, we really need a rest before tackling a big technical challenge like this. Therefore, we decided that we aren’t in the best position right now to accomplish this rework, so we’re moving it to a January patch. We are really sorry about this, but once we come back refreshed from the holidays, it will be one of our biggest priorities.

ROADMAP

Worry not Capy-friends, we will be diving back in the hot springs in January 2024 with new updates! Here’s our Content Roadmap below if you’d like to know what to expect in 2024!

We would like to thank our Capy-community for all your support! Thank you for every bug report and feedback, for every suggestion and idea you’ve shared with us to make EPC better.

Thank you for being a part of our journey, we promise we will continue doing our best to improve Extremely Powerful Capybaras and make it the best it could be! This is only the beginning for us, and we will continue to do much more going forward! ❤️