Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Choice of Games · 2020 · Vampires, Choose Your Own Adventure, Text-Based, Interactive Fiction, Choices Matter
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About Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road is a 650,000-word interactive horror novel by Kyle Marquis, based on Vampire: The Masquerade and set in the World of Darkness shared story universe. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. It won the "Best Game" award in the 2020 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction.
It’s a new Dark Age for the dead. When the Second Inquisition's vampire hunters hacked phone lines and computer networks to expose and destroy vampires all over the world, the elders turned to undead couriers like you. For ten years, you’ve raced across the desert between cities, delivering vital information and supplies. But when an old friend reappears with a plan to disrupt the blood trade across the American Southwest, everything you’ve built starts crashing down.
Outrun the Competition. Drive, hide, or fight back! Unleash the powers of your blood in ancient Disciplines to change form, vanish from sight, or dominate the minds of your enemies. Employ blood magic, inhuman strength, and the creatures of the night to escape destruction—or just run your enemies off the road and keep driving.
Deliver or Die. All secrets have an expiration date—and so do you. Race across the desert to deliver secrets, promises, and threats. Do whatever it takes to drop off your parcel. But when the job is done, will you stick around to exploit the situation?
Run Down Your Prey. Only blood can sate the Hunger. Charm, seduce, or seize what you need, but don’t let anyone know what you are. If you break the Masquerade, your fellow vampires will destroy you for your indiscretions, assuming the Second Inquisition doesn't find you first.
Death is a hard road. You drive it every night.
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road is a 650,000-word interactive horror novel by Kyle Marquis, based on Vampire: The Masquerade and set in the World of Darkness shared story universe. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. It won the "Best Game" award in the 2020 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction.
It’s a new Dark Age for the dead. When the Second Inquisition's vampire hunters hacked phone lines and computer networks to expose and destroy vampires all over the world, the elders turned to undead couriers like you. For ten years, you’ve raced across the desert between cities, delivering vital information and supplies. But when an old friend reappears with a plan to disrupt the blood trade across the American Southwest, everything you’ve built starts crashing down.
Outrun the Competition. Drive, hide, or fight back! Unleash the powers of your blood in ancient Disciplines to change form, vanish from sight, or dominate the minds of your enemies. Employ blood magic, inhuman strength, and the creatures of the night to escape destruction—or just run your enemies off the road and keep driving.
Deliver or Die. All secrets have an expiration date—and so do you. Race across the desert to deliver secrets, promises, and threats. Do whatever it takes to drop off your parcel. But when the job is done, will you stick around to exploit the situation?
Run Down Your Prey. Only blood can sate the Hunger. Charm, seduce, or seize what you need, but don’t let anyone know what you are. If you break the Masquerade, your fellow vampires will destroy you for your indiscretions, assuming the Second Inquisition doesn't find you first.
- Winner of the 2020 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction (Best Game)
- Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, or bi.
- Hunt the alleys and back roads of the American Southwest to stave off hunger and resist the frenzied call of the Beast.
- Join the Camarilla—the immortal society of the vampire elite—or break its hold on the border states.
- Confront the horrors of your immortal existence in illegal hospitals, disease-ridden prison camps, and forgotten research facilities littered with failed experiments.
- Modify your car for speed, durability, or smuggling, but remember—wherever you're going, you have to get there by dawn!
- Unlock the ability to play as Tremere or Caitiff with the Usurpers and Outcasts DLC.
Death is a hard road. You drive it every night.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A nice return to a time where a book could be a nice escape from reality. The writing is strong enough and replayability is real but the game emphasizes a bit to much on a social or cerebral build for the player character. I find the story itself to be a nice blend of V5 rules but with a strong echo of the older versions Camarilla themes.1 found this helpful
This is just all around a really good game, it's easy to see why it won for "Best Gameplay" in a recent poll on r/hostedgames. Set in the World of Darkness, the lore is rich, the stats interesting, and the stakes (hehe) high, with plenty of story-appropriate moral choices along the way. You play as a low-tier vampire courier tasked with delivering a series of packages/messages to various powerful vampires, each of which seems to want to use you for their own purposes. You'll have to make hard choices to pursue your own goals while staying alive and not angering the local powers too much. My main warning with this game though is that it does lean more heavily into the gameplay side of things than many other ChoiceScript IFs, which won't be for everyone. Casual players may be frustrated by having to think so much about how to spend money and allocate stat points, and how to best manage hunger and injuries. It's easy to fail miserably on many of the quests in your first playthrough, and if you're not already familiar with the World of Darkness, there are a lot of factions and concepts to keep track of. Even so the prose is clear and evocative and the characters interesting which make…
Best VTM text based game
it's woke
Great story, went deep into VtM lore while still being accessible
As someone really big into vampires, no experience with this kind of 'game' and some prior knowledge of VtM from Bloodlines, I really enjoyed this game. I was surprised at how engrossing I found it. It really feels like basically anything can happen based on your past decisions... moreso than most RPGs I've played, probably since they really thought of everything. Navigating balancing your personality, vampire powers, relationships and hunger is a really careful dance that is fun to do. You find yourself scrutinizing the options a lot and weighing them against what you know about your character and the person you're dealing with, to see if you can survive the situation. In the end on a first playthrough I had a fairly positive outcome; which is to say that I made myself relatively wealthy and didn't need to make a choice between one of the two primary "factions" (Prince Lettow and Julian Sims) that beckon for your help throughout the game. I basically played it where my character was principally concerned about survival and relative comfort and managed to make it to the end without getting killed by vampire hunters or another vampire, which I view as a pretty damn good ending.
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