
Vampire hunters are after a mischievous vampire girl, and it's up to her pet bat to save the day. Flap through peril in this open-ended precision “batformer” with a unique control scheme that re-contextualizes precision platformer trappings and flips them upside-down!
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Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.14/day in the week to Sep 7 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About
Fly Through the Night

We've all had that dream where you're flying in the sky only to wake up to your boring terrestrial life, but dream no more! Fly around as a bat with unique movement that re-contextualizes precision platformer trappings and flips them upside-down!
Old-School Charm

Limitations were imposed on the palette, sprite size, and audio fidelity to really deliver on that old-school feeling. Retaining the difficulty of retro games, but with modern design sensibilities so you wont be throwing your rectangular controller.
Open World

it's tough out there, but you can take it at your own pace. If you're ever stuck on a challenge, you can easily take a different path and find another way forward.
Carve Your Own Path

There are plenty of routes you can take through the game, but there's gotta be one that's the best, right? The world is designed to let players experiment with routing and find the fastest, or easiest, way through the game, depending on if you're hardcore or looking for something more chill.
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Reviews
Themes across 42 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
It says metroidvania on the tags but it seems the only that upgrades is your irl skill. Refreshing and difficult.
Fun difficult platformer where the open exploration helps mitigate the frustration these kinds of games could have.
Garlic goes well with tomato juice
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English
Hours played at review time, across 42 reviews with recorded playtime.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
If you're a fan of the games found in UFO 50, and also enjoy challenging platformers, then Vampire's Best Friend is completely up your alley. The movement is simple, but the design of the stages and the unique challenges therein really push you to learn all the intricacies. Seems like it would be really fun to learn how to speedrun too!
Rolled credits and am excited to try and 100% the game. Really unique and creative and fun and charming gameplay. The level of challenge was perfect. And I love the problem solving that comes with the energy bar because not only do you have to figure out how you're going to do something in a certain time, but you also get to pick where your checkpoint is, what position you start from. (And the fact that there's the time limit/energy meter makes where you start extremely relevant). Compared to most platformers, like Celeste, where your checkpoint is on a platform at the bottom left corner, if you started a few pixels to the right or a few pixels to the left it wouldn't make a difference, you could just take a few steps forwards or backwards. The added complexity of Vampire's best friend of having what exact pixels you start from is maybe my favorite mechanic and one i haven't seen before. Music and art are great <3 I discovered this game from remap radio.
Highly recommended! Wonderful little game that takes a simple set of mechanics and wrings every bit of creativity from them. At a basic level, the game is very approachable and you'll be feeling like a natural in no time as you learn how to maneuver with your precious few seconds of flight. There are open-ended rooms that let you familiarize yourself with controlling the bat and, when you're more comfortable, others that will require and reward absolute precision. The game will be challenging in a few places, but you can roam around the map freely to carve your own path. Completing the game only requires about 2/3 of the game's collectibles to be gathered, after which point you can still continue to complete what remains for a bonus ending.
very cute little flap em up, isn't super long but can get very challenging. one warning though, requires a lot of accurate button mashing.
This is an absolutely fantastic game in so many ways. The controls feel very strange and unintuitive at first, but the more you play, the more you realize just how well thought out every single part of the level design is. So many challenges are carefully crafted to require you to make the most out of your 5 second timer and push your understanding of the core systems in new and interesting ways. Collecting every garlic was a blast, and I'm excited to jump back in to try and get that 20 minute achievement!
Amazing and super charming game, I wanna see more!
i love it
Players by region
Where this game's players are, estimated from review languages.
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