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 » Soulstone Survivors » New Update: Arms of the Ascended

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.

Soulstone Survivors » New Update: Arms of the Ascended

Hello Survivors! :cozyroe:

The Arms of the Ascended update is here, and with it, we are bringing many changes and fixes to the game! Celebrate the holiday season with us, with new menu decorations from Dec 18th to Jan 5th!

But before we jump into the contents of this update, we want share a couple of news with you:

Firstly, we want to invite you to participate in our Discord event called Big Damage!
➣ Join us On Discord to learn about it!

Secondly, this Friday (22/12/2023) we will release a new Dev Chat video on YouTube, sharing some exciting news for 2024 and TONS of information about the new content coming to the game! Subscribe to our YouTube to get a notification when its out!
➣ Game Smithing’s YouTube

With all of that out of the way, here is the full list of changes for this update:

Character Appearances:

  • New character appearances can now be unlocked in-game! With 14 new appearances in this update (1 for each character), we hope those will serve as a token of your achievements! Future content will bring new appearances for you to unlock, but rest assured ALL appearances will ALWAYS be unlockable in-game, there will never be in-game purchases in Soulstone Survivors!

New Save System:

  • We completely revamped the save system in the game to increase its resilience to file corruption. The game always kept track of a backup file in case the game was interrupted while making a new save, but now the game will use a “ring save” system, keeping up to 10 versions to fall back to in case of corruption.

Gamepad Improvements:

  • This update brings considerable improvements to gamepad usability in the game, such as being able to navigate and view tooltips of Passives and Active skills and your character sheet while in the Pause menu, and many fixes with bugged interactions across the game.

Enemies:

  • Allaxiz buff now only increases his own attack and movement speed;
  • Fixed Gammuth’s Fireball being affected by the visibility slider (again);

General:

  • The game now displays a sort of hint/timer to reflect why the Endless and Overlord portal might not appear at the end of a match if you take too long;
  • Fixed an issue where you might hear the sound of the special event in the Caverns map starting without interacting with it;
  • Added slider in the general options to change the intensity of the “low health” visual overlay;
  • Fixed an issue where Summoned units would not inherit some of your character’s Skill Tree nodes (such as on-hit chances);
  • Fixed Cave Bear skill tooltip which had values scaling incorrectly;
  • Added new keybinding for the “More Details” hotkey;
  • Fixed an issue where the “More Details” hotkey would be inconsistent during gameplay and in menus;
  • Fixed a couple of character tooltips in Skill Tree not working as intended;
  • Fixed a small issue with a controller on Blacksmith which could cause the controller to lose focus;
  • Fixed Meteor tooltip to properly show the Burn damage it applies;
  • Fixed tooltips that could stay on screen when you paused the game;
  • Improved performance of the “Mineral Harvest” rune by simplifying how minerals are awarded to the player;
  • Fixed issue with gamepad navigation on skill trees, where in certain situations you would be unable to select a character-specific node;
  • Fixed issue where Elemental Orbs could be spawned in the air, being impossible to collect;
  • Fixed issue where locked skills in the Skill List menu could be showing the wrong information to unlock;
  • Fixed issue where skills that scaled based on Health (such as Body Slam) would not take the “All or Nothing” rune into consideration for their calculation;
  • Fixed issue where Mastery runes would show the wrong skills in the Runes screen when switching between presets (visual issue only);
  • Fixed issue where Mastery runes would not store the skills used in your Profile;
  • Fixed issue where if you play with a gamepad, but select a skill with the mouse, the gamepad input could stop working to select further skills;
  • Fixed issue where if you had Mouse Only mode, it could prevent you from opening the Level Up screen with the gamepad;

As always, we would like to thank you very much for your support and feedback! We continue working on loads of HUGE new features for 2024 and we are super excited about all that is coming and to share more with you this Friday! And, if you run into any issues with the game, don’t hesitate to reach out! We will see you in the next one!

~Soulstone Team