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Pretty good: 7.4/10 across 25.4k ratings. Overall vibes are good; safe to add to your backlog.
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Vampyr is a 2018 Adventure, Role-playing (RPG) game rated 7.4/10 from 25.4k ratings, with a main story of about 33h, available on Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S.
Pretty good: 7.4/10 across 25.4k ratings. Overall vibes are good; safe to add to your backlog.
Leans into Adventure, Role-playing (RPG), with a main story around 33h. Check if that style and time commitment fit you.
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Vampyr is a slow burn of an RPG, taking its time to ramp up its intriguing blend of science and the supernatural in an elaborately gloomy version of London. When it gets going you can see the potential of the way it offers you more power if you consume its interesting citizens. But Vampyr never commits to this idea to the point where I felt I needed to make that sacrifice to succeed in its relatively simple combat, which leaves it feeling toothless and vulnerable to having a lot of its fun sucked away by technical issues, despite its genuinely engaging story.
Read full review ↗Dontnod follows up Life Is Strange with a surprisingly enthralling supernatural thriller.
Read full review ↗Dontnod takes a thrillingly Gothic perspective on early 19th century London, but squanders it in a dreary and indecisive adventure.
Read full review ↗There are some brilliant, original ideas in here, but Vampyr tries to do too much at once and suffers for it.
Read full review ↗The easy way out for Dontnod would have been to take the most time-worn tropes from dime store horror novels, season to taste with period melodrama and serve it all up for players to enjoy. Vampyr reaches for more, and I'm very interested to see if the finale does it all justice
Read full review ↗As much a detective story as a horror one, Vampyr rewards you for taking an interest in the people around you and tests your moral compass with a lack of black and white options.
Read full review ↗Vampyr attempts to deliver a gothic fantasy, and while it has bright spots, too much goes wrong to let them shine through
Read full review ↗Pitting you as a doctor turned bloodsucker protecting London from other vampires, this action role-player only fitfully explores its moral setup
Read full review ↗"Vampyr" is a game with one foot in the grave and one on solid ground. Though the game's combat feels rooted in the past, learning its citizens' secrets and uncovering their social networks makes for an alluring proposition in our age of oversharing.
Read full review ↗I'm left frustrated that Vampyr falls short of truly combining a smart choose-your-own-adventure game with a meaty action one.
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