Vampyr

If it’s blood you want, you can count on Dr. Reid.

- Ian Evenden

MISTY OLD LONDON is a fine setting for a videogame. Even better if it’s one about monsters hiding in the derelict wharves and foggy back streets. Better still if you’re the monster doing the hiding.

You don’t have to be a monster, although Vampyr goads you into becoming one, pointing out how much easier the game would be if you ripped into the throats of every innocent bystander you find with their back turned at the end of an alley, with no one around to raise the alarm. You could feed on rats to satisfy your bloodlust, even though they don’t grant as much XP to put toward greater vampiric powers, and it’s an option you may well take as the atmospheric setting would be nothing without a reluctant anti-hero, and Dr. Jonathan Reid doesn’t want to be this way at all.