Vampire Crawlers has various bosses in each dungeon. Players can fight mini-bosses to receive special chests or to unlock additional crawlers, and they have to beat the dungeon's main boss to unlock more stages. Besides this, there are secret bosses that they can encounter if they do a very specific thing.
Best Beginner Power Ups in Vampire Crawlers
Here are some of the best Power Ups Vampire Crawlers players should get in the early game.
Just like The Trickster, the purple reaper, players can spawn The Drowner, a blue reaper. This guide tells players what they need to know about The Drowner in Vampire Crawlers, including how to get it to appear so they can battle it and defeat it.
How to Spawn The Drowner in Vampire Crawlers
Why Does the Blue Reaper Spawn in Vampire Crawlers?
Reapers tend to spawn when players act unexpectedly in battle. In the case of The Drowner, it spawns when players end their turn one too many times without playing a single card. Players may notice that if they end a turn in Vampire Crawlers without playing any attacking card, water will appear.
To get The Drowner to spawn in Vampire Crawlers, players have to End Turn a total of four times without using any weapon cards.
How to Defeat The Drowner in Vampire Crawlers
The Drowner is a strong and bulky enemy in Vampire Crawlers. However, unlike many bosses in the game, players won't have to deal with the eye mechanic, which causes enemies to attack after a certain number of cards have been played. This means that gamers can freely complete their turn without having to fear being attacked.
Since the battle with The Drowner is underwater, players will receive water damage on top of the physical damage that the blue reaper will inflict upon them. Once gamers finish their turn, they will receive 10 percent of their maximum health as underwater damage. Then, The Drowner will hit them 12 HP.
The Drowner is quite bulky, but as long as players have enough armor cards or healing cards to get them through the constant 10 percent HP damage plus the physical attack, they should be able to wear down this menace and win the fight.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 84/100 Critics Rec: 88%
- Released
- April 21, 2026
- ESRB
- Teen / Blood, Violence
- Developer(s)
- Poncle
- Publisher(s)
- Poncle
WHERE TO PLAY
- Prequel(s)
- Vampire Survivors
- Number of Players
- Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Unknown
- PC Release Date
- April 21, 2026
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
- April 21, 2026
- PS5 Release Date
- April 21, 2026
- Nintendo Switch Release Date
- April 21, 2026
- Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date
- April 21, 2026
- Genre(s)
- Roguelike, Deckbuilding, Dungeon Crawler
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PC
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 1.32 GB
