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Vampyr was underrated - it's the best vampire RPG we've got


While the world waits, and waits, for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, a sequel that only ever seems further awa…

But middling reviews sank it and the game floated downriver, past most people, and it would have passed completely had it not been fished out by the - then - new wave of subscription services. Watch on YouTube What I like most about it is the central conceit: in the game you are, or were, a doctor in life, so you took a Hippocratic Oath to behave in a certain, ethically upstanding way, and to not, say, tuck in to your patients. I'm also a big fan of the foggy dockside London setting Vampyr takes place in, 100 years before the game's release, when the capital was reeling from the expenditure of World War 1 and was ravaged by merciless Spanish Flu pandemic.

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