Voltaire is Dracula’s youngest son, and he’s chosen vegetables over blood — a decision his father is not prepared to accept quietly. JanduSoft, the Barcelona-based publisher, is bringing Portuguese developer Digitality Games’ Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire to PlayStation 5 and Xbox on September 30, three years after its October 2023 Steam launch, in a console port handled separately from the PC version’s original publisher, indie.io.
The Day-Night Split
The game runs on a clean structural division. By day, Voltaire plants magic seeds, tends and expands his farm, and explores Transylvania — the harvested crops feeding directly back into his own growth and ability progression. By night, Dracula’s ghostly minions descend on the farm, sent specifically to break his son’s vegetarian resolve and drag him back to the family’s traditional diet. Players defend Voltaire’s crops from these nightly incursions using his vampire abilities, facing both standard enemy waves and full boss encounters — with the family conflict itself doubling as the game’s central comic premise and its tower-defense-adjacent nightly structure.
Growing Stronger Through Plants, Not Blood
The progression hook inverts vampire genre convention directly: Voltaire gains new abilities and grows more powerful specifically through a plant-based diet rather than blood, with each run’s accumulated knowledge and unlocked capabilities carrying forward into the roguelite structure that governs subsequent attempts. Exploring Transylvania’s varied biomes and expanding the farm’s footprint layers genuine simulation-game engagement on top of the combat and progression loop, rather than treating farming as a purely cosmetic frame around a straightforward survivor-style defense game.
The PC version supports co-op and split-screen multiplayer; whether these carry over to the console release hasn’t been confirmed and is worth checking before assuming parity.
The Three-Year Track Record
The PC version’s Mostly Positive Steam rating — roughly 76–79% positive across about 100 reviews since its October 2023 release — gives the console port an established, if modest, quality signal rather than an unproven concept arriving cold. Player interest has centered specifically on the concept’s novelty and how cleanly the farm-management and vampire-combat halves interlock, which is the same design synthesis the console release is carrying forward unchanged.
Who This Is For
Strong fit for: farming sim fans who want combat and roguelite progression layered on top rather than kept separate; players drawn to distinctive, “weird but cute” hand-drawn character design; vampire genre fans who appreciate a premise that inverts the usual blood-and-power convention; PC players who’ve been following the game since 2023 and want to try it on console, or recommend it to console-only friends.
Cautious fit for: players who specifically want confirmed co-op/split-screen support before buying on console (unverified); anyone who needs Korean-language support confirmed (not yet verified); players expecting a Very Positive-tier rating rather than a Mostly Positive one.
Less ideal for: players who dislike farming sim or tower-defense mechanics regardless of thematic novelty; anyone seeking a purely combat-focused roguelite without the simulation layer.
The Takeaway
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire is a three-year-proven PC concept — vegetarian vampire son, paternal sabotage, day-farming and night-defending — making its console debut on PlayStation 5 and Xbox on September 30 through a publisher (JanduSoft) separate from the one that shipped the original PC release (indie.io). The Mostly Positive Steam track record and the specific, hard-to-mistake-for-anything-else premise are what the console version inherits directly.
The crops are planted. The sun is setting. And somewhere out there, Dracula is sending another wave of ghostly minions to talk some sense — or some blood — back into his son.
September 30 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox. Available now on Steam.
Information regarding ‘Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire’
| item | detail |
|---|---|
| Developer | Digitality Games (Portugal) |
| Publisher | indie.io (PC) / JanduSoft (Console) |
| Genre | Action farming roguelite |
| platform | PC (Steam), PlayStation 5, Xbox |
| Release date | PC October 26, 2023 / Console versions (PS5·Xbox) September 30, 2026 |
| language | English, Portuguese, etc. (Korean support unconfirmed) |
| Reactions/Evaluations | Steam “Mostly Positive” (approx. 100 reviews, positive rating 76~79%) |
| Steam Page | Shortcut |
