Sink your teeth into V Rising for free this weekend, and you can grab the full game for less than half price

You don't need to be a music fan to have a vampire weekend this week, as toothy survival game V Rising is free on Steam for the next few days. Developer Stunlock Studios has announced that the game will be freely available until Monday, with a deep discount on the full version if you find yourself thirsting for more by the end of it.

If you're unfamiliar with V Rising, it's one of the better "survival game, but" experiences to have released in the last few years. It takes the familiar loop of exploring, resource gathering, base-building and so forth, but puts you in the role of a vampire looking to restore their former glory after centuries of slumber.

As you rebuild your vampire castle, you'll need to pillage local villages and drink the blood of their inhabitants, and plan your resource runs carefully to avoid getting caught out in the sun.

While it has survivalist foundations, V-Rising is also a surprisingly adept action experience. It has a nimble combat system that uses keyboard controls and mouse-based aiming, and a whole bunch of weapons and spells to master. Its world also contains a variety of formidable boss fights w...