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 » Deathstate: Abyssal Edition » Deathstate Update 1.04

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.

Deathstate: Abyssal Edition » Deathstate Update 1.04

Increasing Insanity

​Major Features:

  • Challenge the Insanity Portal, the craziest and hardest mode in the game.
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  • Face 2 hideous new bosses!
  • Discover 8 new items and organs, all with unique effects.
  • Watch new endings for every character!

​Minor Features:

  • You now hit a key to pick up organs and items instead of auto-collecting them. If you’d prefer the original behavior, you can enable it in the options menu under “auto-pickup.”
  • New rare unique enemies are now lurking throughout the planes.
  • Lots of new particle effects art for buffs and debuffs have been added.
  • Several new firing patterns for both the player and enemies.
  • Some player weapons have been changed to use these new firing patterns. Their DPS should remain about the same.
  • Added more new enemy behaviors for Desecration difficulties.

​Tweaks and Bug Fixes

  • “Get Every Item” achievement is now “Get 140 Items.” Some of the new items are REALLY hard to unlock.
  • Grundy’s Lesser Tome of the Eye (Fireball Grimoire) is pretty powerful, so we put it behind an unlock.
  • Elite chests can now spawn a maximum of 3 elites.
  • Elite enemies now scale based on depth, so they won’t be such push-overs at higher layers.
  • Made World 4 maps larger.
  • The camera now tracks bosses more actively.
  • Slightly increased the movement penalty on the Yellowed Fatty Spleen.
  • Further increased Seeker’s Entropy damage.
  • Nerfed the maximum possible damage output possible from a single Scar explosion.
  • Greatly increased the Brawler’s PUNCH damage. Don’t stop punching!
  • Made the Player laser beam visually smaller to reduce how much it obscures enemy bullets.
  • Fixed a bug causing various item and weapon effects not to apply to The Eye character correctly.
  • Fixed a bug that could sometimes cause you to get stuck in Introspective or Expanded Sight modes.
  • Fixed a bug that was causing Desecration Altars to appear on Worlds 2 or 3 even if you didn’t trigger Desecration on World 1.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause the final boss to not progress phases under very particular circumstances.