One of similar size and similar tone: thoughtful, brooding, dark.

Are you a monster, or are you a person still?

Will you take the lives of people you once swore to heal and help?

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In Vampyr, if you want more power - and whodoesn’twant more power in an RPG?

Not everyone will be a scoundrel who is exploiting others.

It’s a tough game in places; attempt it without powers at your peril.

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Playing it in 2020, during a pandemic of our own time, made for an uncomfortably pertinent experience.

Beings who watch and ponder and generally mope about a bit, looking great while they do so.

Simply: I didn’t expect it to be this good.

A close up of a bearded masculine character holding a scalpel as if ready to perform an operation. A nurse in old-fashioned white and blue scrubs stands ready to help. Note: the masculine character is wearing their outside clothes to perform the operation - they haven’t even changed.

A character thrusts their hand into the air as spikes shoot out of the ground to impale a presumed enemy nearby. Blood spouts from their wounds. There’s darkness all around.

A misty night time scene in London a hundred years ago. Nurses wonder the streets and there are bodies on tables. Gaslit signs punctuate the darkness.

A masculine character goes in for the bite: they push back the head of someone in a train conductor’s hat and hold their arm as they expose the neck and jugular. Their fangs are bared as they lean in.