WINNER of the 2020 XYZZY Awards (Best Game)
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Vampire: Night Road, a text-based vampire horror novel
By Mei-Lin Chua
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- Text-only interactive horror novel of about 650,000 words
- Choices that control where the story goes
- Courier runs across the desert between cities
- Pursuit by vampire hunters, assassins and rival drivers
- Set in the World of Darkness, based on Vampire: The Masquerade
- 2020 XYZZY Awards winner for Best Game
What kind of interactive horror novel this is
This is a choose-your-path vampire story written by Kyle Marquis and based on Vampire: The Masquerade. It runs in the World of Darkness setting. There are no graphics or sound effects, so the hunters, the desert and the city streets exist only as the words on screen.
The listing rates it Mature 17+ on Google Play and shows 3.67 stars from 1,861 ratings. It suits people who enjoy reading interactive fiction and vampire horror rather than action games with visuals.
Making deliveries before sunrise
You play an elite vampire courier who has spent ten years carrying information and supplies between cities across the desert. The core pressure is time: each run has to reach its destination before dawn.
Along the way you have to outrun vampire hunters, assassins and other drivers. The choices you make in these moments decide how each run turns out.
The hunters and the plot behind the runs
The story is set after the Second Inquisition's hunters hacked phone lines and computer networks to expose and destroy vampires around the world. The elders responded by turning to undead couriers.
The main plot begins when an old friend returns with a plan to disrupt the blood trade across the American Southwest, and the courier's routine starts to fall apart.
Reading and choosing your way through
The novel runs to roughly 650,000 words, and your decisions control how the story unfolds. Because the game has no visuals, the reading experience depends on your own imagination to picture the settings and characters.
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