Vampire Survivors Secret Characters – Unlock Guide

Last Updated on 27 July, 2022

Vampire Survivors Secret Characters – Steps to unlock each secret character, their bonuses and removed characters

This is what you have to do to unlock each secret character:

Gains Boros: Due North of spawn in The Bone Zone (beyond Silver Ring), there is a ring of flowers which heals the character by 8 quite rapidly. Stay in the ring for about 30 seconds (New)
Peppino: Go to Il Molise, using Celestial Dusting to attack the plants there heals them instead > 100,000 health (New)
Smith IV: The player can unlock this character after Exdash and Toastie are unlocked. Type “spam” in the main menu – this will start a hidden 30-second timer. Go to the character selection and enter “spam”, go to the stage selection and enter “spam”, and enter a run and enter “humbug”
Leda: defeat him in Gallo Tower, 32-40 tilesets down
Toastie: defeat the Stalker or Drowner or Trickster after Exdash is unlocked, Press ↓ + Enter when they are on the screen
Exdash – Secret Character: quickly type “x-x1viiq” while in main menu.
Minnah Mannarah: After collecting Yellow Sign, a cheese will spawn in the Dairy Plant. Attracting it using Mad Groove (VIII) and collecting it spawns 7 werewolves. Defeat all of them
Mask of the Red Death – Secret Character: killing death after 30 minute of the game

Vampire Survivors Secret Characters – Bonuses

All secret characters start with certain bonuses, and can get additional bonuses

Peppino: Peppino starts with +20 Max Health, +2 Armor, -60% Area, +100% Magnet, and mostly notably, -100% MoveSpeed. It gains an additional +10% Area on levels 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and 21.
Smith IV: Smith starts with 7 Max Health, +20% MoveSpeed, -10% Might, -10% Area, -50% Speed, -10% Duration, +10% Cooldown and +100% Luck. They gain 0.01 Recovery, 0.7% Might, Area, Speed and Duration, -0.25% Cooldown, and 1% Luck every level.
Leda: Leda starts with +5 Armor, -20% MoveSpeed, +100% Might, +10% Area, -10% Cooldown and -80% Greed.
Toastie: Toastie starts with -99 Max Health, +20% MoveSpeed, -10% Might, -10% Area, -50% Speed, -10% Duration, +10% Cooldown and +100% Luck. Additionally, Toastie gains more Luck, Max Health and Armor at certain levels:
Exdash – Secret Character: Exdash starts with -23 Max Health, -10% MoveSpeed, -10% Might, -10% Area, -50% Speed, -10% Duration, +10% Cooldown and +100% Luck.
Minnah Mannarah: Minnah starts with 150 Max Health, 0.5 Recovery, and -70% Might. They gain +10% Might every three levels until 24
Mask of the Red Death – Secret Character: Mask of the Red Death starts with +100% Movement Speed, 255 Max Health and +20% Might

These characters are no longer playable:

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