Recent reviews by Nurgleth

Please ignore my play time - I already played this when it came out, but I wanted a Steam copy for myself :)

To sum it up: It's an amazing detective game & a great VTM experience, the deductions are fair but do not hold your hand. Yes, the character models look outdated and the animations are janky, but you get used to it and the voice acting is pleasant.

I feel like a lot of love went into figuring out the best ways on presenting information to the player and allowing them to come to their own conclusions, if you miss out on making the connection between pieces of information you've found, your character won't point out what you've just learned (most of the time) - I'm so happy about this, I find it super annoying when adventure/detective games do that.
That said, a lot of the time the reward for finding information is knowledge, so you need to be invested in the setting and the story for it to feel rewarding.
I can't judge how the experience would be for someone who doesn't know Vampire the Masquerade well. For me, if my Storyteller presented a game like this to me as a campaign I would be thrilled. The characters are nuanced people, rarely can you take first impressions at face value. I also enjoyed exploring the Inquisition up-close.

Negatives:
- I've already mentioned the character models, you have eyeballs, I don't need to tell you.
- It seemed to me that skills/disciplines were pretty unbalanced and the fact that at some points in the story the game will just hand you abilities in case you haven't specced into the Discipline in question felt bad.
- I found the beginning/tutorial at the Prince's Quarter too slow, the game really only gets into its stride after that

Still, please give it a shot, I feel like it's severly underrated and I would love if Big Bad Wolf could make another one!

The writing is pretty clunky, a lot of the dialogue and exposition just doesn't feel natural. I wouldn't say it's terrible, but I wouldn't recommend it.

If you're looking for another "Night Road" fix, it doesn't reach that level.

It captures the VTM experience incredibly well, I've greatly enjoyed its writing and the artwork is very nice.

I've run into some small bugs, some awkward pacing moments and there's some minor liberties taken with the lore to streamline things, but that didn't really change my impression. It's not perfect, but worth the money :)