Vampire King by mactinite
Vampire King is a stealth game where you seek revenge on the Vampire King!
You can sneak behind enemies by crouching, but be careful, your vampire heart beats loudly every 10 seconds, which enemies can hear!
Use a controller or keyboard and mouse.
Controls like a typical 3rd person game.
- B on controller or C on keyboard - Toggle Crouch
- A on controller or Space on keyboard - Jump
- X on controller or Left Mouse Click - Use Ability
- Hold Left trigger or Right Mouse Button - Aim (+ Ability to toss a decoy)

| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/vampire-king |
Ratings
| Given | 2🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
I couldn't really figure out the point of the distract ability because it seemed like the guards always noticed me before I could get up close. Also I was an unstoppable juggernaut by simply attacking and moving backwards.
Once I figured out the old reliable attack-walk-back I speedran that shit like it was Streets 1:12.
In all seriousness it was a pretty cool game. Would have been nice to get some more abilities and some variety in the ways that the enemies attack you (Maybe crossbowmen? Siege Weaponry?). It would have been cool to have alternate paths to sneak up on guards from different angles. I think in the first level there's a taste of that when you have to sneak under a short walkway to gain access to a different area but everything else after that seemed pretty linear.
The sneaking was hard though, it was often easier to just kill the guards in a fight. Also a insta-kill backstab would have been nice for rewarding a successful sneak attack. The game also didn't give me the mouse cursor back in the main menu after I finished it so I had to close it from the task manager. Also, for some reason it played on my second monitor and I could not change it :D