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 » Cult of the Lamb » A Message From Us, Post PAX!

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.

Cult of the Lamb » A Message From Us, Post PAX!

We have finally come to the end of Melbourne International Games Week!

We laughed, we cried, and we all praised the Lamb in real life!

Thank you to everyone who took the time out to attend our various events – whether it was our Monster Friends pop-up, the Cult of the Lamb Live Orchestra, Ritual, or if you met our team at PAX Aus! It meant the world to see just how many people love our weird little game. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!

What event would you like to see us at next? 😗

PAX Aus 🦘

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our team goofing around at PAX Aus, with the wonderful folks over at Devolver Digital!

Cult of the Lamb: The Ritual & Live🎵

6000 people came to our Live Ritual….

Which was secretly a RAVE!


We also hosted an amazing live show, complete with an incredible live accompaniment from Orchestra Victoria. Thank you to all who attended, and stuck around at the end for a Q&A with our wonderful team members!

Messages from our team! 💌

Below we have a message to you from River Boy, our wonderful Audio Director who performed in the Cult of the Lamb Live Orchestra, and was DJ-ing at the Fed Square Ritual 🎶

We also have a message from our resident writer, JoJo Zhou! JoJo’s impeccable art direction, story writing and more truly brought our IRL events to life.

So, what’s next?

We’re currently still all hands on deck working on the next major update, and will have more info to share on this soon. We’re crushing all those sneaky little bugs, polishing, and making sure this is going to be the best update ever whilst also working on fixing bugs in the current version! 🥰

Our pumpkin decorating contest is also still underway – thank you for all of your amazing entries so far! There’s still time before it ends and ALOT of prizes to be won, so be sure to get any entries in before the end of the month! Find all the details for this here.

As always, if you run into any bugs, be sure to report it in-game so our team can take a look! You can do so via the pause menu, by tapping on that little bug icon. Please fill your reports in with as much detail as possible!