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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2007

Should you play it?

Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

What works

  • Deep and immersive narrative
  • Distinct vampire clans with unique abilities
  • High replayability with multiple endings
  • Rich atmospheric world and music
  • Meaningful player choice and roleplaying

Things to keep in mind

  • Technical bugs and glitches at release
  • Dated graphics and clunky combat
  • Mandatory unofficial patch for playability
  • Late game combat sections can be tedious
  • Limited character appearance customization

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut

  • The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition

  • Alpha Protocol™

  • Sorry We're Closed

  • Yakuza 3 Remastered

  • Mister Furry: Hot Muscles

Less intimate

Games that feels like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines but with less focus on close relationships

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  • Flesh Made Fear

  • Withering Rooms

  • BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut

  • Enclave

  • Shadow Man Remastered

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Story, Continuation.

Last update: 21/08/2026