8 Video Games That Did More With Less

The moment many took a peek at Vampire Survivors, they probably assumed it was yet another roguelike packed to the gills with complex builds and all manner of trial-and-error strategy.

But there's a reason that the game has been a pure sales juggernaut - it cuts through all the flabby tosh and gets right to the heart of the matter.

Vampire Survivors is a game just about anyone can understand in a matter of minutes - all you need to do is move around, with the game auto-attacking the hordes of enemies which come your way.

Without maddening skill trees and the such like, it's a perfect low maintenance game - intensely accessible and ridiculous addictive, and so it's little surprise that key developer Luca Galante has a background in the gambling industry.

It may look and feel simple, but that also lends the game a zen-like quality, as absurd as that might sound for an experience that's fundamentally entrenched in the bullet hell genre.

Proudly eschewing a conventional narrative and tedious tutorialising in favour of to-the-point mayhem and player discovery, Vampire Survivors is a monument to the joyous thrills of fat-free, no-nonsense gaming.