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“We’ll say ‘it’sthisgame but withthat.’

It takes so much time to innovate.

Deep Rock Galactic

We’re a studio of 50 people with bills to pay.

So we can’t do that.”

In the case of Deep Rock Galactic Survivors, it’s about what you’d expect.

Deep Rock Galactic Survivor

It’s Deep Rock Galactic’s sci-fi dwarves and subterranean mining but with Vampire Survivors' bullet heaven structure.

But as Rohde says, nothing istotallynew.

Even Vampire Survivors simply perfected (and popularized) a formula that already existed.

Vampire Survivors

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