PowerUp Selection: twelve permanent upgrades, Max Health for 460

About this game

Developer: poncle · Publisher: poncle · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: Focus / Tech Trees

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What to study

Between runs, Vampire Survivors' permanent progression fits on one panel with no scrolling and no tree: twelve single-word stats in a grid, each with checkmark pips for the ranks already bought, and a footer that prices the next rank of whichever tile is selected (Max Health: 460 gold for +10% per level, capped at +30%). The flatness is the point, a player can see their entire meta-build, what it cost, and what remains, in a single screen, and every purchase is small and capped so no single PowerUp can outgrow the run itself. It is the Mirror-of-Night idea stripped to a vending machine. Frame at about 0:13 in the December 2021 - Early Access Release trailer (Steam; manual extraction, the panel is held settled for roughly two seconds and the following frame shows the same grid a purchase later, with Max Health checked and 'MAXIMUM LEVEL REACHED' in the footer). A second later state is preserved in the prep's fine pass (fine/v2_015.png).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

panel-grid cost-list stat-panel

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Grid Vitals bar

Screen inventory

• the same centred panel frame as Character Selection and Collection, title 'PowerUp Selection', the gold purse at 64143, a red BACK button, now filled with a 4x3 grid of twelve permanent upgrades bought between runs
• the twelve tiles are the game's entire stat vocabulary, one word each: Might, Armor, Max Health, Amount / Area, Cooldown, Growth, Velocity / Speed, Magnet, Duration, Luck, each tile is a name, one icon, and a row of small rank squares underneath
• bought ranks are gold checkmarks and unbought ranks are dark empty squares, readable across the whole grid at a glance: Armor shows three checks, Growth four, Amount one, and Might five empty squares, the account's whole investment history is one grid
• Max Health is selected (gold corner brackets) and the footer strip is a shop card: the heart icon, 'Augments max health by 10% per level (max +30%)', a price of 460 gold and a green Buy button, the description states the per-level value and the cap in the same sentence
• nothing escalates or branches: there is no tree, no prerequisite line and no respec button visible, permanent progression is a flat grid of small, capped, individually priced stats

Top 3 colors

#5a0706 25%#0a0101 24%#ad1d23 13%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© poncle, Vampire Survivors screenshot: Steam trailers (Refreshed Trailer / October 2022 - v1.0 Trailer / December 2021 - Early Access Release), poncle, shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by poncle.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-24. verified 2026-10-24: manual extraction manual-powerup-selection-13.png @ ~13s in the December 2021 - Early Access Release trailer, MD5 ddb238f24118869a5964cdb1be630d06, from the verified-clean curl-shim download (21,040,322 B, MD5 b109e489d7cea1ef7c9a45cdc3034672; full decode to null exit 0, zero error lines), inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native); the PowerUp Selection title, all twelve tile names, the checkmark/empty rank squares, the 64143 purse, the Max Health footer with 460 price and green Buy button all legible; no trailer text or marketing overlay in frame

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