Vampyr

10/10
The characters' premise fits my needs of perspective.
This might not mean anything, and I apologize if this isn't misleading.
I don't leave bad reviews, all efforts are a perfect score.

Although this game came out in 2018, it is still the closest we've had to a perfect vampire game. The concept of a doctor returning from the war and newly becoming a vampire during the plague is ingenious. Unfortunately, the game took a very combat-heavy lead that can sometimes take away from both the story and the overall theme. When treating someone for a headache knowing there's a giant lesion covered beast right around the corner, it makes you wonder if the game may have lost its sense of direction.

Overall- 8/10. It's a game that you force yourself to love because of the amazing overall theme, but prolonged exposure reveals all of it's sometimes game-breaking imperfections.

Combat- 9/10. I know many players have argued about it, but I enjoyed the combat styles quite a bit. I love how much control the player has to cater their character to their fighting style, which many players may not know how to navigate hence the complaints. However, dying because you got stuck on a random minuscule and nonsensical object while strafing during a fight is a frustrating occurrence.

Graphics- 10/10. Both the city and the NPC's are well visually designed.

Map- 2/10. Navigating the city is a horrendous experience. It can be so bad that it makes you contemplate uninstalling. Often times, you will be doubling back over locked door after locked door. I wished that once you sanitized an area, all external doors would automatically unlock.

Audio- 4/10. Soundtrack is fairly ambient, and audio glitches caused by combat or cut scene are common.

Story- 8/10. The story is well designed and fairly thorough. All of the voice actors also speak with realistic clarity and emotion. The investigative aspect of the game is very good, although eavesdropping is very glitchy and you may encounter a time where you have to let an NPC die because you were just simply not high enough of a level and/or skilled enough to save them.

I'm sure the dev's learned a lot and they'll get it way more polished next time.

Great game.
Great dialog
Challenging fights and interesting monsters
Good variety of goals and quests.
Satisfying ending.

I bought this game when during the spring sale. I saw it recommended on a youtube video for top games to buy during the sale.

I don't usually play single player games, mainly mmorpgs/shooters. So this was a very big change of pace, but very welcomed one. What enticed me was the vampire aspect of the game, i thought you would jump in and run around with vampire like abilities and suck people's blood all game whilst fighting vampire hunters. Although there are these elements in the game to a degree, Vampyr actually focuses heavily on the adventure/story aspect for the most part of the game (as i understand it so far and most likely will be the same for the rest of the playthrough)

I never would have thought that i would enjoy such heavy story driven game, but here i'am absolutely hooked on this game, i won't spoil anything here but the way they have set the scene in the early 1900s timeline in London, to the duality of the Vampire/Doctor sides of the main character, fighting between his evil side or being a good ''doctor''/investigator, whilst battling monsters/thugs on the side. I think this is a one of a kind type of game. I really enjoy it and will pursue other single player games like this moving forward, i hope this dev team makes more games.

So far i rate it 9/10 - Highly highly recommend it, i would buy it at full price also.

i like the story game and combat

What an amazing game. Good not great combat but the story makes up for it 10 fold. A must play.

very fun and the story is immersing

beautiful ambience, great voice over and storytelling.

Ahhhh Vampyr. That game i got on my steam recommendations so many times across multiple years ever since it was released back in 2018. This game was suggested to me so many times by steam i finally decided to buy it and actually play it in 2025 after clearing up my backlog a bit. And i dont regret doing so, because of how great the game actually is.

My reviews are always spoilers free.

Lets start with the fact that i started playing Vampyr with very low expectations, after watching a few videos and gameplays of specific mechanics that were something i never seen before in a game, but my interest kept increasing after i actually completed the first chapter, with a few exceptions in between chapter 2 and 3 where i felt a bit bored but it quickly got fixed just before reaching chapter 4.

The Story:

Fantastic. Brilliant. Over the Top.
You get plot twists that you could not expect happening. You get decisions of the fate of certain important characters like pillars, that will have an impact in the districts health.
The map and the story just evolved and unfolds to you the more you advance.

We play as a Vampire doctor named Jonathan Reid, who just woke up in a pile of corpses, fully resurrected and unable to control his vampire instincts, straight up in the first 3 minutes something tragic already happens and you are set on the run, being chased by vampire hunters known as Priwen Guards. The game immediately let you know that you are playing a soulsborne game, with souls like combat, that includes the stamina management, the dodging, patiently timing attacks, etc. You cannot defend yourself from the first priwen brawler you encounter, till you drop down and grab your first weapon.

As you progress thru the story, you meet new characters that obviously distrust you at first but then become your friends. Some you can decide the fate, and some you cant. The game is pretty lineal and straightforward, yes it is true it lets you explore previous areas before advancing to the next chapter, but the only things you can do there are investigations (side quests) and killing enemies for ingredients and materials in order to create medicine and upgrading your weapons. You also cannot explore some areas until you reach them by advancing in the main quest. The xp and level up are mostly tied to side quests and main missions, but half of the available xp (if not more than half) is tied to a mechanic i never seen before in any videogame, called "embracing". Embracing is basically feeding on a citizen and is the core of the game basically, the consequences for doing so can be either minimal or brutal depending on who you decide to embrace and how many people you "eat" for the xp. There are 4 districts and each of them have a health status, you need to go around checking and ensuring everyone is fully healed by giving medicine to the citizens that become sick, because if health status drop below stable, things can get tough really quick, with enemies increasing in power and numbers. If you are a hardcore masochistic gamer like me and play every game on hard on their first run, i strongly recommend embracing only a few citizens per district, never embracing the pillars during story decisions, because, i am really serious about this, if one district goes hostile or even critical by chapter 4, you will have a nightmare time trying to explore it, the game will go from a challenge bloodborne to dark souls sl1 new game plus level of difficulty with stuff that 1 or 2 hit kill you and are 10+ levels above you. Especially in the west end district.

I personally went without embracing almost anyone at all, except the 2 or 3 that truly deserved it, but i found myself stuck on some story bosses forcing me to embrace some questionable npcs that had a "is this guy bad or good, idk" type of reputation. So i feel like you must embrace at least a few in hard mode or you will get extremely underleveled for certain encounters and have a very bad time. So dont bother getting the "No embrace" achievement and the good ending in your first run, if you play on hard. Yes the ending of the game is tied up to the amount of npcs you embrace. You have 4 endings and the one you get depends on the amount of people you "eat", be it by yourself or during story choices.

There are over 50 npcs you can talk to, and the story will have you talking to many of them, if you are an ocd gamer prepare yourself to hear . So be aware that there is gonna be A LOT of talking, and i mean a lot.

The Gameplay:

The gameplay, unless you ruin a district health, is challenging but a bit easier than soulsborne games in terms of bosses and enemies, and you get used to the mechanics and dodging very easily if you are familiar with dark souls and bloodborne, but hey i have thousands of hours in soulsborne games so maybe that made it easier for me personally.

You can find several weapons that you can later upgrade with materials you find in crates and chests, or enemy drops. You can also adquire some weapons from certain npcs you embrace.

You have 3 types of weapons, 2h, 1h weapons and off hand weapons like stakes and guns. Personally i liked going 2H and parrying everything i came across, while ocassionally switching to 1H and a gun.

The combat can get repetitive, and will get repetitive over time, that is why i was switching weapons constantly.

The abilities you can get are cool to use, you can get passive ones that increase your health, stamine, blood, biting damage, etc. And offensive skills that melt your enemies health bars.

The Graphics:

Decent, the game aged well, you wont get the red dead redemption 2 or the witcher 3 level of graphics, but the environments and athmosphere is really great. I found no visual glitches whatsover.

The Animations:

Pretty good i would say, nothing much i would like to add, it has the AAA animations level of quality from games released on that year. And i found only a few bugs where some enemies were t posing on me, or a miniboss that got stuck and forgot how to attack.

The Side Content:

Hmm, this is where i have to be honest. While the healing mechanic can be cool at first, it gets boring and gets repetitive really fast, the fact that you are forced to do so unless you want a district to go nuts makes things kinda worse. The investigations (aka: side quests) can range from a cool story culminating in a boss or mini boss fight, to a "go there, pick up this, return" type of fetch quests. The documents collectibles are the only collectibles you can find, and the reward for finding all of them is PATHETIC.

Final conclusions: While the story, the gameplay and the healing mechanic are very enjoyable and the embracing is great and makes you think twice before getting that "free" xp. Only a few side quests are good, most of them are boring. The combat can get repetitive and the fact that you can end up easily underleveled if you go around without embracing anyone can be annoying a bit. The fact that killing enemies give you 3 xp points and only useful to do for mats, is something that i personally found underwhelming.
Overall i got unlucky this time and found a lot of bugs as well, one side quest glitched for me and i could not rescue a specific girl attacked by priwen guards, because the door that led to her was permanently locked for me, even if it is not supposed to be locked, so she kept screaming for the rest of the game while passing thru that area. A boss got stuck for me too, another miniboss forgot to use his weapon and twice i got t pose disrespect from priwen guards. I usually get lucky and rarely encounter bugs in games, but not with this one. This was also the first time i was able to play as an actual Vampire, the only other time i played as a Vampire was in Skyrim, but that was nothing in comparison.

Giving Vampyr a solid 7.5/10.

I must be honest with you since 2018 I played this game twice and acting, plot and all the little details are too good to be true. Unfortunately it is a lost gem to the vast gaming industry. It is like playing an old vampire novel.

BEAUTIFUL game, I spend so much time just appreciating the overall design of every building and street. The choices and dialogue is so well done, the voice acting is TOP NOTCH. I love the replayability as well given how many different endings you can get and I also love the managing of districts aspect. It really makes you realize that your choices have even more consequences than in a typical decision based game. 100/100

атмосферно, красиво, хорошие но иногда сложные файтинги

The game gives you this whole ‘moral choice’ system, but let’s be real: by the third chapter, you’re just snacking on everyone like it’s an all-you-can-eat buffet. ‘Should I spare this innocent citizen?’ Nah, bro, I’m running low on XP, and Karen’s looking juicy.

Massively underrated game if you like story telling - this is the 3rd version I'm buying

Fighting is great but Red queen avatar fight was too easy, traversing is boring, wish i could leap building to building to close distance quickly. Manual save should be there, as i didn't know i will be automatically transported to castle and can't come back to finish side quests.

Really good game! Great compelling story, lots of decision making that have consequences based on your choices, challenging and rewarding fights, and multiple endings depending on how you play. This is not an easy game and there is no going back on decisions because of a single save system so choose everything wisely! Be evil, good, or somewhere in between and that will effect everything from difficulty to story ending.

Great game, dont listen to people saying the combat is trash, they just dont know how to mix the skills and upgrade the equipment properly.

This entire game is excellent. The npc concept and actually caring about NPCs and what they say and the moral and ethical dilemmas? What a masterpiece. A sequel would be instantly procured.

Great game that kept me engaged for the entire play through. Final boss was the only "BS" balancing issue I had with the game, it completely negated the decisions you may have made to "feed" on some town folk earlier in the game. Other than that one complaint it was a great story, well voiced and acted, and the game play was fun enough.

One of my favorite games, Combat is good enough.Pacifist route most enjoyable makes it bit harder.

I love the dark and beautiful old London this game portrays, and the struggles of your character as you help him remain human or succumb to his dark instincts.

Hoping we get a sequel someday.

Played it before it is an excellent vampire game since there isnt too many of those.. vampire masquarade wasnt as good in my opinion. They need another installment of Vampyr or something like it

Levelling system is too complicated... you either struggle through the whole story with little xp, or you get loads of xp only to find at the end the final boss is impossible to kill because it scales with you (and some more) ... no way to complete the game without hours of grinding. Can't change the difficulty without starting again. On top of all this the mouse control has forced acceleration and no way to turn it off. It has no respect for your time. I like the concept but it just wasn't enjoyable.

Gamedevs had no vision about their own project... Is this a social sim game? If yes - shallow. Action-RPG?Shallow. Souls-lite? Even worse. Morality system bounces around like worst drunk in the town. - you can help only small number of people game specifically points you to, but not your own sick mother, or that woman who was terrorized into insanity by some vamp, or any other poor soul game wants you to talk, but for some reason not to help. Souls-lite RPG and social sim are hard to unite together, and here devs didnt even bothered. Ive laughed my ass off when in finale main character stated that he never killed anyone to his boring and forced love interest after slaughterin his way thru night London, because you know, he gave oath of Hippocrates and all, but all those game forces you to fight they just dont count. Combat is boring and made without any imagination - youre a vamp, ffs, no range hypnosis, no ability to sneak thru hostile territory as a bat, or anythin actually imaginative. Loot? Boring - regardless of your choices or allegiances thru whole story game gives you ONE secret weapon ( not even best in the game ) and others are... just there UNLESS you start murdering people. Upgrades for weapons? Boring stats increases, stun and bleed and thats it, Scythe or axe, mace or saber - who cares, why would we differentiate scythe with reach, axe with added cleave and yada yada - heres some numbers for you. Game forces difficulty with constant spikes of stats and characteristics of very small number of enemy types, but after first 10 hours i was beatin the hell out of mobs either with high gamage 2h-mace or thru kiting abuse and sneak attacks. Game finished on hardest difficulty lvl 23 and i can continue for a very long time
Positives: my respect and compliments to musicians, voice actors, all people who worked on environment and atmosphere of night London
Negatives: basically everything left - game tries to look deep as an ocean, but once you step further and further you find yourself draggin your feet for tens of or hours thru same boring puddle of mud

The vibe is great! The story is ok. The gameplay is aweful. The fighting system is totally broken.

Great game that is a lot of fun to play and level up in. The one complaint I have is the map system where there is a lot of walking through generic looking streets that are hard to find places by walking around in.

i love the aspect of this game despite it being older and slow. the story was great and i love my wife elisabeth.

Very average gaym. Decent NPC interactions. I expected more. World feels tiny and insignificant. Worth on special.

(Spoiler-free)

Vampyr is a role-playing game with an open world set in 1918’s London. The game is also a combination of many elements from other genres which greatly benefits it. It took me years to finally give it a try and I am amazed. The climate, the narrative and the characters made an enormous impression on me. I personally think that this is the best Vampire RPG game out there. It is a must-try for vampire and role-playing games enthusiasts.

When you launch the game, in the lobby you are going to hear an amazing violin song that’s already very climatic. It is a real pleasure for one’s ears. You begin the game with a prologue which introduces you to the story as well as to gameplay basics. The prologue itself lasts around an hour and is very, very climatic. The dark streets of London at night and an amazing audio accompany you throughout the whole experience. I don’t think that you can actually make someone’s first impression better. That’s a prologue done right. It absolutely bought me and made me want to continue playing the game.

In this game we play as Jonathan Reid, a distinguished British gentleman who is also a doctor. The man is hard to not like. The story is deep and keeps you engaged until the end. It is actually a really nice and well-written story (with few exceptions). The characters are explicit, well expressed, all different from each other and very likeable. You will find interactions with them interesting. Well, not all of them are likeable. Some you will like, others you will hate but when you hate someone, what actually stops you from embracing them? Absolutely nothing. You have a lot of freedom in this game and all choices belong to you, however, every decision leads to some consequences. Those can be either harmless or catastrophic.

There are communities in this game and a few interesting mechanics connected to them. You see, we discover hints (information) about people as well as their stories. At least half of them will have separate quest lines connected to them. The more you know about the person, the better reward for killing them will be. There is no faster way to get stronger in this game other than feeding on members of the community. Before that can happen, you have to keep them alive and safe from diseases. When a person is ill, their blood will be affected, granting much less experience than when they are healthy. It can even lead to their death. You will spend a lot of time talking, healing and doing investigations for the citizens but that’s an enjoyable part of the experience.

In summary, the game is great and definitely worth trying. There are some amazing mechanics behind it as well as an interesting story, characters and the climate. The only thing I disliked about this game was combat. Fortunately, it was easy to learn and intuitive. Once I learnt how to fight, it no longer was an issue but it was dreadful at times. I also encountered a few minor glitches that did not affect my experience. Overall, I played an exceptional game and I can recommend it with clear conscience.

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It's an excellent game that is oozing with atmosphere.

The story is interesting, the voice acting is splendid. London is dark and gritty, dirty and desperate, oppressive and claustrophobic, and yet it remains a beautiful city. The gameplay is wonderful, although linear, it insists on the consequences of your acts.

The combat is brutal and quickly feels repetitive, especially after you evolve. The bosses are bullshit, they often have OP attacks and the game doesn't know how to teach you properly its mechanics. If you die, you respawn with a penalty on your consumables and abilities. It's frustrating and it feels sloppy.

It's a great and interesting tale, but the combat can be frustratingly brutal, everytime you level up, the enemies feel harder to beat, so you feel like you've gone backwards, not progressed! Still a really good game, but just play it on the easier level perhaps, save the respawns!

Been looking for a good vampire game for a while, and this one is pretty damn good. Love the choices and the different consequences that come along. However, Combat is extremely repetitive and boring. I find myself just spamming the same button over and over. i can overlook the bad combat for the good story though :)

Dude (The Main Character) can teleport in battle, but needs to run through the same streets 1000s of times to get shit done. Provide Players with a FAST TRAVEL ABILITY.
Im half way through the game and I dont want to touch it because IM SO SICK OF RUNNING THROUGH THE STREETS! It RUINED THE GAME FOR ME SO BAD!

The Dialogues oh so many of them are complete SHIT ! - I just stareted to skip most of them cuz it felt like such a drag!

I got this for $5 and I still feel like I was robbed. I'm surprised this slop has mostly positive reviews.

-Terrible story and all character interaction is full of filler and mundane dialogue.
-Terrible gameplay, only fun I had was a hard mode pacifist(handicapped) mechanically unfair boss fight.
-Faggotry, which when combined with the game's lack of substance made it's insertion truly soulless & detracting.
-Miraculously, not a single compelling character.

Ok, this game is good but it's far from perfect. It's a good game but definitely not a perfect game since it has lots of issues and am gonna address it over here. First of all, the story is good but it's s very short. Also you have to be very cautious with your decision since it affects the end of the game. The combat is pretty bad. Like we have to fight so many enemies and why we have need to have a stamina for fighting, i don't get it. There isn't any fast travel so it's gonna be hard to go from one place to another by walking or sprinting. It's hard as well since there are so many Skals or Vampire Hunters and it's hard to get rid of them since there will be a gate to open to the next location but then it won't happened if your character is in a combat mode. So you have to defeat all of them before opening the gate. I didn't even like that whenever you sleep to upgrade the character, some of the districts go down and many of the citizens get sick all the time. There is also no mini-map so you need to keep pressing the 'menu' button all the time to see where the character is. Also the Collectibles were not that great and i lost ONE Collectible juts bcuz i read 'Usher's Personal Diary that i shouldn't have read. It clearly did not instruct us not to read the diary otherwise we wouldn't get collectible. Bcuz of this, i couldn't achieve 100%. But you know what's the worst part in this game?
The worst part is to get all the weapons for 100%, you need to kill or should i say 'Embrace' the citizens to get it. And also if you do embrace all the citizens, you will get the worst ending. THAT'S THE WORST PART IN THIS GAME.
This game is just half asset and i don't recommend this game to people who want to achieve 100% but i do recommend it to people who just wants to enjoy the game and not care about achieving 100% in this game.

This is a conditional recommend-- I wouldn't tell everyone I know to play this or even every RPG fan I know to play this, but I do think if you're an avid vampire enjoyer then yes, you will have a lot of fun with this game. The voice acting, the period setting, and the story I've experienced (so far) has been enough to keep me interested.

**tl;dr: I think of this game as being a very good 7/10-- it is really good at what it does for what I assume is its core audience (people who really like vampires or post WWI-era London) but isn't otherwise mind-blowing by any stretch. It claims choices matter and it insists as such by auto-saving at every turn.**

The game constantly reminds you that choices matter, and I do think they deliver on this claim for the most part. This is one of those games that auto-saves whenever you do basically anything (including saying something you may end up regretting having said) which forces you to strongly commit to your choices. The correct option is not necessarily the most obvious one, and you will not always be able to correctly infer the outcome of a situation even after you have heard every side of the story. This is something I find particularly interesting about this game.

A lot of RPGs will basically let you "brute force" your way to the best outcome by going "all in" on something-- for example, in other games if you have high personality/muscle you can charm or intimidate anyone, or if you went full good guy or full bad guy then you can win any skill check that demands a certain amount of either.

The RPG side of this game doesn't actually care how strong of a vampire you are (it only has implications for the combat), and it doesn't indicate to you whether being merciful or merciless will help or harm you. You'll just have to make your best judgment / go with what you think your version of the main character would do and deal with the consequences, which I think is what an RPG should do. You will meet people with different motivations and backgrounds, and it will be up to you to decide their fate. That decision will have deep and sometimes irreversible impacts throughout the city.

The only "charm" skill you level is the thing that lets you hypnotize someone into following you to a safe place to feast on them, and if your level is high enough in this regard, it will always succeed. There is sometimes a conversation option that lets you demand answers using vampire mind control, but this can backfire when applied in the wrong situations i.e. it is NOT a shiny "give me the outcome I want" button that a lot of RPGs have.

You start out as a fledgling vampire and are very weak but can ascend in power dramatically once you begin feeding on NPCs, all of whom have fully voiced dialogue as well as backstories and personalities. Over the course of your playthrough, through conversations with other characters or by exploring, you can find out hints about NPCs, and you can use your medical skills as a doctor to devise treatments for their occasional illnesses--both will improve the quality of their blood, which means you will get more experience for feeding on them eventually should you choose to. On the other hand. you are also motivated to keep a district's population healthy as if it plunges into chaos (by having people missing, dead or sick) you will lose vendors or entire questlines.

The combat isn't awesome, but it is enjoyable at the very least. You can deplete an enemy's stamina bar to feed on them which will replenish your blood meter, allowing you to do things like teleport straight to them, heal yourself, launch projectiles etc. Since you can pretty much heal ad infinitum with this system, investing points in stun is very strong since you get ample opportunities to heal yourself and also cast powerful abilities. You sort of get to determine how much of a power fantasy you want, e.g., refraining from feasting on anyone so that you can experience a decent challenge from every encounter you have (if you're into that), or just walk on everyone by eating people as early as you please.

Even on Hard mode and feasting only on those who I felt "deserved it" I felt pretty strong. Problem is that the enemy variety is pretty mediocre-- you usually fight vampire hunters or rabid vampires and you will deal with them in pretty much identical ways and you never need to really adjust your strategy for what you're up against. Eventually you'll fight stronger vampires, or werewolf-like creatures and even they don't really do anything different.

Another problem this game has is a severe lack of fast travel and an abundance of backtracking-- even if it wouldn't make sense for the game, you have to run all around the maze-like streets of London without a mini-map. Backtracking or following what you think is the optimal route only to find a locked door you can't open feels like a total joke sometimes.

This was SUCH a fun Game, I played through the whole story in 30 hours.
I bought it when it was on sale, but If I had to pay the full 40€ for this experience, I WOULD. and in the end, once I finished it, I bought it multiple other times for friends of mine because it was that amazing.
Can Only Recommend!

Gameplay is a little bit clunky, but still a very underrated game.

Great story paired with pretty bad combat.

PERFORMANCE:
Had 4 or 5 crashes during my playthrough. Typical UE4 errors. The game's frame rate seems to be locked at 62 fps for what ever reason and no option to have motion blur smooth it out.

GRAPHICS:
The fidelity is alright. Quite good looking lighting for sure but I couldn't make sense of the art style. Is it cartoon style like Dishonored and Prey or are they doing photorealistic graphics here? Faces looked laughably bad but not because you can't see pores in people faces but the way they look. Just weird. Are they again cartoony or what? Couldn't make sense of it. The text on UI didn't come up as very artistic either. I guess the visuals are all over the place.

SIDE CONTENT:
Be prepared to run around a lot! NPCs must be found by yourself which is fun but running around for their quests wasn't and their were they ever rewarding. I guess the best reward for side quests were lore and story, which is totally the best thing in this game.

The NPCs are so unique and they have this social circle system written that just works beautifully. E.g. you make amends on someone's behalf and the other person starts to fix they act. Quite unique and found that the most interesting point in the game.

COMBAT:
Combat is the worst here. Barely any variation. Most of the skills I tried sucked in some way so I ended up maxing my health and stamina and a weapon which worked fine. The enemies suck even worse, they do 3 moves always and they can end up spamming the same move till you die. They can stun and kill a vampire like that? They always have this annoying stun move which they repeat and while you're stunned, you don't have any i-frames which is a big no in these types of action games. Enemies are always 5-10 levels above you and that twisted my nuts in the wrong way. I read online, that you have to kill all the nice people to be higher level from the enemies. I hated the combat and got bored of the game because of it, so I can be bothered to elaborate more on it.

Oh by the way. Mouse and keyboard was pretty bad, so I suggest using a controller.

STORY:
The biggest surprise is the story and how good it was. From the NPCs you speak to on the streets to the main characters, they all tell a really good story. All voice actors doing some of the voice acting in double-A games ever. But be prepared for long talks with a lot of NPCs.

VERDICT:
Well... after 4-5 years of delaying my playthrough, I finally did it. And it was just alright. This won't stick in to my memory from the mediocre music to bad combat. Story and the rest of the potential was there but wasn't achieved.

This is probably the best in-game story I've experienced thus far, and I've played games such as Baldur's Gate series, Witcher, VotM Bloodlines, etc. I cannot believe I'm saying this.

If you are a fan of Bloodlines, this is a must buy, w.e. the price is at the moment you are pondering to buy the game. All the ingredients that made that game are present in this one, too, adapted to the time and place of the story, and improved exponentially. A worthy successor.
If you are a Bloodborne fan, you'll also love it. I recommend playing the game on Hard in this case, and go for the 'Not even once' achievement. This will exponentially increase the difficulty of the game.
Music, Animations, Cinematics, Story, Sound: this game has it all and it aimed for the highest quality.

The team that created this game are absolutely phenomenal! Bravo!

Ps: Game is extremely well optimized. Yes, it has some glitches here and there, but they are rare: ex. if you look at mobs that are too far they may appear T posing, and during some boss fights if you kill em during an animation. Nothing too drastic, and considering the size of the team when they made the game, it is absolutely acceptable.

One of the best vampire games, and a great combination of deep lore, a slowly unfolding world, and lots of intriguing characters, combined with good gameplay.

The vampire had to resist the temptation of bloodlust and feeding on NPCs, and I had to resist the temptation to gain exp from them.

SLOW gameplay, worst hack n slash I've played since ps1, annoyingly difficult on hard mode (and I can't change it, nor have the patience to start a new save in this SLOW and counter-intuitive game). Honestly, graphics are good and the plot is kinda ok but the main character is boring and it's all about gossip. I feel like I'm playing Bridgeton with a battle-mode developed by the devs of thor god of thunder.

The skeleton of a good game is here. The combat mechanics is actually fine by me. There are characters and factions that game never really uses more than once in the story.
Endings are just disappointing. Like you would think doing an Evil or Pacifist run would give you extra boss or something to come over. The love story is trash and comes out of nowhere.
Great potential but wasted.

The setting is great, as is the voice acting, and the story. Too bad you have to put up with terrible game design and endless grinding to see it.

TIP: If you choose to slog through the game hold down the O and P keys in level up menu. Its an infinite XP cheat the devs left in the game. If you choose to play, this is the way. Grinding for levels to progress the story is that bad.

Fantastic premise, decent enough combat, definitely lacks some polish and honestly it could've been longer - but this is a fantastic game if you can snatch it while it is on sale. Highly recommend.

This was a really fun game. You just need to know what you are getting. It's 60% story and 40% action. It looks great and I was never bored. It's not perfect. There are some issues with the camera during combat sometimes but its not that bad. Also fast travel would have been a nice addition, but really the city isn't that big and its very doable. The game is about 30 hours playing time. I had a blast.

Amazing game despite having one of the worst combats i experienced in gaming

I'm really enjoying this game! I remember a PC vampire game from the 90's (unfortunately, I can't remember the name) and have thought that if they remade it, it would be really fun to play. This is not a remastered version of that game, but it certainly reminds me of it! My only complaint at this point is that I cannot use an Xbox controller and must use the mouse and keyboard. I find myself having to look down to make sure I'm hitting the right keys.
I am not a "gamer" (in that I don't take gaming too seriously and just play for fun when I have free time.) It's fun to play without having to learn intricate controls and details to get the full experience. I would recommend.

So far a good game. Mood is dark and you feel like a vampyre and the fighting feels good also.