A must-play for video game historians.ĭontnod’s Vampyr was somewhat maligned on launch, a cinematic RPG about a newly-turned vampire hiding in plain sight. Its influence today extends far beyond its meagre reach at launch, informing many similar games that would follow in its footsteps. A dedicated community of modders has kept the game alive ever since, sanding down its rough edges with patches they’ve made themselves and even creating their own custom content. The game blended the action of a first-person shooter with the sprawling choices of a large-scale RPG, the result of which is actually kind of an immersive sim, albeit an unintentional one. Created in the Source Engine, Vampire the Masquerade – Bloodlines was a rough and angular game at launch, but it was also ahead of its time in many ways. Some might not even put it as the best VtM game ever made, but a legion of devoted fans have made it a beloved, accidental classic and certainly one of the best vampire games ever made.

There have been a lot of VtM games over the years, but Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines is perhaps the most well-known.

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