Stunlock Says No V Rising 1.2 and Starts a New Game in the Same World

r/Games highlighted an official Stunlock Studios dev update posted on 2026-03-26, and it is much more definitive than a routine community check-in. The studio says it is not currently developing a new content update for V Rising, which effectively closes the door on hopes for a V Rising 1.2-style expansion in the near term. Instead, the next big step for the franchise will be a different game set in the same gothic universe.

That distinction matters for current players. Stunlock says the existing journey to Dracula is complete as it stands, so the team is not preparing another major content beat that would normally force the community into a fresh save cycle. For a survival-action game that has trained players to expect large resets around major updates, that is a meaningful signal: the live game is moving into a maintenance phase rather than a new-growth phase.

Maintenance does not mean abandonment. According to the post, V Rising will continue receiving balance and bug-fixing patches when the team believes they are necessary, and Stunlock plans to run regular polls to measure the health of the game through player feedback. The studio also says it explored what official modding support might look like, but concluded the current structure of the game does not allow mod tools at the standard it would want to ship.

The bigger headline is where that freed-up effort is going. Stunlock says it is now working on a new game set in the world of V Rising and describes it as the studio's most ambitious project in its 15-year history. The post frames the new project as a chance to build a deeper and more flexible foundation than the one underpinning V Rising, with greater room for danger, mystery, and systems the team could not easily add to the current game.

There is still a lot Stunlock is not ready to share. The studio says the new project is in very early development and does not attach a platform list, release window, or genre breakdown beyond the promise that it will feel familiar and new at the same time. Even so, the message is unusually clear: expect lighter support for today's V Rising and watch for the next real leap to happen in a separate product, not a late-cycle expansion.