"V Rising" spits you out of a coffin after a long torpor with nothing but your claws and scant few vampire powers that won't become fully relevant until later. The perspective is the same kind of faux-isometric camera that you'd see in old PC RPGs like Diablo, and plays remarkably like that game as well, at least when it comes to combat. But the main gameplay loop doesn't revolve around this familiar combat mechanism. Instead, the focus is on staying alive, and your first priority is to create a shelter that will eventually form the literal heart of your vampire castle. To do so, you'll spend more time clawing at trees and boulders than enemies to get the materials you need.