poncle has dated its next Vampire Survivors expansion. Legacy of the Bloodmoon arrives August 28, 2026, and it is the first DLC in a while to feel like a proper follow-up rather than a crossover: no licensed guest cast, no borrowed franchise, just poncle writing its own gothic mythology.
The setup is deliberately old-fashioned. In ancient times, Saint Baal'Thasar saw a paradise lit by a red moon and founded the Order of the Red Moon to lead people to eternal life. He went on a pilgrimage, found something, and never came back. The Order fractured into splinter sects, and the nastiest of them, Clan Bloodmoon, is now retracing his route to find out what he actually discovered.
Ten characters, and a family that treats its own followers as ammunition
The expansion adds 10 new characters. poncle has detailed five of them so far:
- Malice Bloodmoon — leads a pack of disciples toward the Order's lair. They do not know they are there to be used as cannon fodder and meat shields.
- Calogero Bloodmoon — a huge, bloodthirsty brute who resolves obstacles with a massive axe.
- Baal'Thasar — the Order's founder, or what is left of him after the pilgrimage.
- Ashtart — one of Baal's earliest followers, now a malevolent presence that inhabits any old bones it touches.
- Sargon — an ancient king who followed Baal out of ambition and fear of death, and ended up trapped in a hellish dimension for his trouble.
16-plus weapons, and poncle taking the mickey out of its own naming scheme
There are 16 or more new weapons across base forms and evolutions. Scarlet Needle is Malice's signature, impaling enemies on needles that inflict paralysing pain. Incineration skips damage numbers entirely in favour of erasing a crowd from existence with a flick of the hand. Blacken Firmament summons an ominous celestial body that darkens the heavens and starts tearing reality apart.
And then there is FireBall, which poncle introduced with a straight face as "peak originality: a weapon called fire ball," before warning players not to confuse it with FireFall, FireWall, or their union, FireStall. Several years in, the studio's store pages remain the funniest in the genre.
Red Moon Manor is an XL stage
The single new map is Red Moon Manor, tagged XL — poncle's designation for its largest stage type. Lore-wise it is the fortress Baal'Thasar supposedly built to hide the secret of immortality, and the hook is that Malice and Calogero have confirmed it genuinely exists. Eight new music tracks ship with it, with titles that read like a short story when listed in order: It's Her Nature, What He Wished For, Borrowed Feathers, Grasp All, Lose All, You Knew What He Was, When You Took Him In.
The original Moonspell expansion gets a second life
Here is the part that costs existing owners nothing: Legacy of the Moonspell, the 2022 DLC that Bloodmoon shares a naming lineage with, is getting additional content and a permanent price reduction at the same time. Retroactively expanding a four-year-old expansion while cutting its price is not standard publisher behaviour, and it is a decent answer to anyone worried that the DLC list is getting long enough to be intimidating.
Bloodmoon lands on Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android on August 28 — the full platform sweep on day one, which has been poncle's standard for a while now. Pricing follows the studio's usual approach of asking for roughly the cost of a coffee in exchange for a double-digit character count.
