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 » Atomic Picnic » New Update is Live! Little Mac Remake, AMD Crash Fix and more!

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.

Atomic Picnic » New Update is Live! Little Mac Remake, AMD Crash Fix and more!

Hey everyone, let us start by saying the AMD Crash should be fixed now! Sorry it took us this long!

On other news, there’s some new juicy stuff on this update like Inverted Y and X options, separate Volume Knobs and a new Upgrade: Walkpod!

Features
New Little Mac
  • Little Mac has spent some time training and came back with new attacks and abilities!
New Upgrade: Walkpod
  • Every time you Fast Reload your weapon, summon a Sound Pulse to damage enemies all around you!
Improved Progression
  • We took a hard look into how the game was played and we made some improvements to overall match time and wave balancing. Both Bosses should appear much faster and match times should be reduced by a bit!
  • Increased XP Gain during matches
AMD Crash Fix
  • Sorry it took us this long, but the game should now be playable on older AMD Cards!
Invert Y and X Axis!
  • For those of you who couldn’t play the game before due to this missing option, now you can properly play the game!
Separate Volumes
  • We’ve separated Ambience, Music and SFX Volumes so you can have better control of those while playing!

Director’s Commentary

Let me start by saying that I’m sorry it took us this long to fix the Crash that was affecting some of you guys. I’m sorry and we’ll try to do better in the future and fix those important issues much quicker!

Also thanks a ton for everyone that participated in our Open Community Playtest on Thursday this week! It was amazing and everyone tried some cool new secret features that aren’t in the game yet
I can say this: There will be more playtests in the future!

Onto more important news!
I have an important announcement to make: We will be closing down the Demo starting on December 1st!

As we gear towards our Early Access release, we need the team to focus on some huge new features and improvements to the game, this means it’s better for production of the game if we only have one version of the game to focus on. Because of this we decided to sunset the Demo starting December 1st so we can double down on making what matters: the Early Access version!

I want to add that we will keep doing Community Playtesting before EA Release, so if you want to participate join our discord @ discord.gg/bitcake!

We can’t wait to show you more!