Struggling with weapon evolution in Vampire Crawlers? Here’s everything you need to know

If you dabbled even a little in Vampire Survivors, then you need to pick up and play Vampire Crawlers. It does offer different gameplay since it’s a turn-based roguelite deckbuilder, but a lot of the same chaotic charm is there.

However, you’re not going to get very far in your runs if you don’t know how weapon evolutions work. You’ll need to wrap your head around the cards and gems system, as one misstep will potentially lock you out of securing the arsenal you need to progress.

Here, we’ll get into how to evolve weapons in the game, as well as the currently available evolution list, so you can plan runs moving forward.

How does weapon evolution work in Vampire Crawlers?

While we might have suggested weapon evolution is a complex task, the mechanics are actually pretty simple. All you’ll need to do is combine the right weapon card with the right passive card, then trigger the evolution.

Evolutions are also tied strictly to cards, not run-of-the-mill gems that you might be used to seeing pop up. The game does a cheeky job of making some stat cards look like gems, but they don’t count towards evolutions. Worse still, if you slot a regular gem into a card, as previously alluded to, that card is effectively locked out of evolving altogether.

Once you’ve got the correct card combo sitting in your deck, the next step is to actually trigger the evolution. You’ll need to find either a treasure chest or destroy a statue that drops a red orb Evolution card. You should see the combo that you’ll be using under the ‘Evolve’ text, which will subsequently spit out an evolved weapon.

If you don’t have the right combination that you want, you’ve sadly missed out on the evolution this time around. Instead, you’ll have to take one of the higher rarity gems offered, which are handy, but nowhere near as powerful as what you’d get by evolving a weapon.

Vampire Crawlers weapon evolutions: A full list

If you’ve managed to digest the evolution process, here are all of the weapon evolutions you can do with associated cards, and what weapon you’ll receive at the end: