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 » SKY TOMB » Patch 0.11

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.

SKY TOMB » Patch 0.11

Hey there pilots!

We hope you’ve been having fun in the week since launch – flying around in your personal sniper Viper build, nuking entire fleets with numerous boxes of grenades or possibly already slicing and dicing with Excalibur. We’ve been hard at work analyzing your feedback and eliminating bugs where they have been encountered.

We’d like to thank all of our players for their interest and support so early in development and hope you’ll want to stick around. Moreover, please voice any feedback or bugs you might find. We want to do this game justice as it is a game we want to play as well.

Note: The first stage, Sector 3, is abbreviated to S3.

New Features

  • Upgrade Rerolls (capped to 3 per run) allow for easier access to chosen build paths. This should also alleviate difficulty issues in the early to mid game.
  • HP pickup heal now grants a textured green feedback frame.
  • Taking damage now grants a textured red feedback frame.
  • Newer, longer version of S3 combat soundtrack.
  • Steam Cloud Saving.

Balancing

  • HP pickup heal amount and drop chance has been doubled.
  • HP pickups visibility improvements.
  • HP bar changed to green to match with pickups.
  • The background of S3 has been darkened to enhance visibiity.
  • S3 Tier 2 enemies health has been lowered from 24 to 20 (-17%).
  • S3 Tier 3 enemies health has been lowered from 70 to 60 (-14%).
  • S3 Tier 2, 3 and 4 shot cooldowns no longer synchronize, varying somewhat with every shot.
  • S3 Tier 2, 3 and 4 enemies spawn 20 seconds earlier to offset the lax spawn time of Tier 2.
  • Glaive upgrade (Space-lawnmower Blades) and bomb upgrade (Box of Grenades) damage is decoupled from ship damage. They are now guaranteed to deal 8 and 10 damage respectively – meaning they one-shot tier 1 enemies.
  • Player projectile speed changed from 8 to 7 (-12.5%).
  • Projectile amount upgrade (Bolt-on Barrels) shot spread changed from 6.5 to 4.5 (-31%).
  • Upped XP-rate upgrade (AI-Generated Feedback) from 5% to 10%.
  • Lowered drift slow motion upgrade (Eurobeat CD) cap from 4 to 3 (-25%).

Bugfixes

  • Player and enemy projectiles no longer collide.
  • Enemies that shoot no longer fire instantly on spawn, meaning you should no longer have to worry about being one-shot from across the map.
  • Actualized projectile amount upgrade (Bolt-on Barrels) damage decrease to 15% from 10% as mentioned in info text.

Technical changes

  • Particle performance optimization.

Other

  • Flavor text tweaks.