Vampire®: The Masquerade - Bloodlines™

Modders still keep this game alive. Not only them ofc... people's love too. This is the best vampire game so far. It combines some unique mechanics that a lot of games used years later. Story - unique, facial expressions - glitchy but also live-like, atmosphere - astonishing, ost - TOP, check the moddb and nexusmods sites for some amazing addons. And don't forget to install the latest patch. Love Troika. Hate Activision.

Troika Games really got the bloodline of Black Isle Studio/Obsedian Entertainment. I am definitely stunned by the Code, intrigued by the Art, and fascinated by the Design.

There's a group of armed men in the room. Do you obey your superior and sneak past them, or do you kill them all mercilessly? If you do fight them, do you use your bare hands? A melee weapon? Or maybe you use your vampiric powers to trivialize it all? A human woman requires a critical blood transfusion; do you let her drink your blood at the cost of her serving you forever, or do you let her die? Do you obey the woman who acts rational yet rude, or the more unhinged one who has a romantic interest in you? Do you purchase blood packs to keep your thirst satiated, or do you calmly seduce a member of the populace and subtly drink their blood. Perhaps you do it by foce, but you might be caught by another human. Bloodlines is a semi-linear but mostly non-linear game in which you have many situations like this, choices everywhere with everything you do; even your vampiric race and powers available are a choice, except one: after bringing home a date, everything goes wrong: they suck your blood dry, and turn you into one of THEM. You're brought against your will into a tribunal, nearly executed, but as a last minute decision, spared by your new kin of the night. From there you must work as a fledgling vampire, and while the first jobs seem easy and unrelated, a dark plot brews below the surface. Vampire politics are a deadly game, and you're one of the center-pieces. You get to travel through various cities as you progress the story, and can do side-quests before progressing through the main game's missions. You can buy or procure weapons of all kinds, from ancient swords to powerful armaments like assault rifles and shotguns; meanwhile you level up your own skills and physical traits and vampiric powers. You must always be careful though; for if your nature is exposed, law enforcement agents, vampire hunters, and eventually, your own kin, will hunt you, if only to keep the Masquerade intact. But will you be able to maintain some humanity, or become a beast?

fuck the sewers

Definitive vampire experience. Hella worth time and money even after all these years.