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 » Roguevive » Update #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.

Roguevive » Update #11

Hi everyone, weekend means update. This one is a little big. Here are the notes.

Patch Notes:
  • Fixed several behaviour problems of the Reload bar both solo and online.
  • Blood Instinct now show damage text in Red, as critical, and the exact damage it does, instead of 999.
  • Gravi Push and Gravi Pull knockback increased by 50%.
  • Purple slime xp decreased from 3 to 2.
  • Fixed Gold Spent and Gold Collected not showing on Game Over Screen
  • Fixed a bug where the reroll was costing more than it should.
  • Changed Shuriken Damage color.
  • Add a 0.3s delay when exiting the pause menu and the level up menu, so you have time to react to the game coming back.
  • Fixed online Upgrade cards not being selected when clicking on the image of the upgrade.
  • Fixed SEVERAL problems with buttons not working in game.
  • Added an Increase size animation to level up cards when Hovered.
  • On endless mode, added a tooltip text showing the Health and Speed bonus on enemies.
  • Added armor value to the health bar.
  • Added a little animation to the skin selection, also changed the selected border.
  • Fixed Fire ammo effect being off-center.
  • Fixed Fire ammo effect playing after the enemy died.
  • Fixed movement being interrupted when selecting the Level Up option on Online.
  • On online, when an enemy teleport, it briefly stops damaging, so it don’t damage a player that is not it’s target.
  • Improved Moon movement on online.
  • A LOT of changes of how the networking works, should greatly improve online experience.
  • Changed Xp point movement logic, should improve the erratic movement when there was multiple points around.
  • Changed Enemy behavior online, to focus only on the alive players.
  • Reverted the nerf on the zombies movement speed
  • Added Player Level on the upgrades load out.
  • Also, New Stage with a new boss.

So, new content at last.

About the online, I feel like 40% of my development time is improving the performance online, and is still not good enough, there are some known issues that I am working on, like the spec camera and the other players sliding when there are too many enemies on screen.
But still, this update improved a lot.

Also I will rework most of the upgrades this week,
So please look forward to it.
Thanks everyone for the support and the feedback, it really helps.