Disco Elysium-inspired RPG leads winners in Vampire: The Masquerade game jam

For those missing a bit of Masquerade in their life

It’s been a while since we heard from the virtual side of Vampire: The Masquerade. But while another Bloodlines may still be a ways off, the Vampire Jam let other de♓velopers explore the world of the Masquerade.

Vampire Jam ran from of last year, letting developers put together a bunch of games set in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe. Many were created, ranging from visual novels to strategy anജd role-playing games. You can find all of them, , and check out a below.

There were also some incentives for the top picks, though. The World of Darkness team has , with first place getting to collaborate with the team to publish as a free-to-play game on Steam, alongside a monetary prize. Second and third place also received a monetary prize, and all three won digital prizes in the form of Vampire TTRPG PDFs and keys for Vampire: The Masquerade games on Steam.

First place went to , an isometric RPG that takes some inspiration from Disco Elysium. The story follows a mortal and a�🔴� vampire, has about an hour and a half of gameplay, and multiple endings.

 too﷽k second place with a 4X strategy-RPG hybrid. Players take control of a Coterie and try to take over Portland, spreading their influence across🍌 the map as they go.

In third place was , a narrative adventure with some gorgeous art abou🌠t a thin-blooded vampire. It looks like a solid experience for those who like narrative choices and dialogue.

There are a lot of entries, spanning a pretty impressive number of genres. I’ve only taken a cursory look at the full lineup, but here are a few that jumped out at me apart from the aforementioned winners:

•  is another visual novel with some incredible art.
• If a narrative adventure with more tabletop influence is your style,  looks to incorporate some classic rolling of the die.
• I’m captivated by the look of A Night at , a pixel RPG in the Vampire world. It feels like Earthbound meets Masquerade.
•  has you in the shoes of a vampire therapist. Absolutely sold. Downloading it now.
•  has a similarly excellent one-line pitch: an interactive novel about cleaning up after your first kill as a vampire.
• And lastly, if you want some impostor game in your Masquerade, seems like a Gnosia-esque single-player traitor game.

So while Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been adrift for some time now, at least there are some neat projects using this jam to explore the Vampire world. And if that’s not enough, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong is set to cap off a stacked spring of games in May.