Vampyr

 PlayStation 4
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7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 853 Ratings

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  1. ToshLichev
    Jan 29, 2021
    4
    The best that could be said about Vampyr is that it's an ambitious AA game that manages to accomplish quite a bit considering its tiny budget. Unfortunately its biggest accomplishment is its existence, being a complete game with quite a bit of content, but when you look at it as an actual experience it falls apart very quickly.

    Let me start off by saying that I couldn't care less about    The best that could be said about Vampyr is that it's an ambitious AA game that manages to accomplish quite a bit considering its tiny budget. Unfortunately its biggest accomplishment is its existence, being a complete game with quite a bit of content, but when you look at it as an actual experience it falls apart very quickly.

    Let me start off by saying that I couldn't care less about the generic plot, I truly wanted to get into it seeing as 60% of the game is an obscene amount of dialogue and exposition (an insane amount of side missions). However around 3 hours into the game I stopped trying and just started skipping the poorly acted dialogues, saving myself what I can only guess to be around 4 hours of boredom. The plot is paper thin and the character development never amounts to anything of substance.

    The gameplay and world don't hold up much better. London is tiny but getting around it is tedious. Because of the endless dead-ends and locked doors you spend hours just trying to figure out how the hell you can get from point A to point B - the hordes of respawning enemies are also frustrating since you never feel like you are progressing - they always spawn in the same places and in the same numbers slowing you down in the cheapest way possible. The combat feels like it's pulled from an early PS2 game, hit detection is terrible, locking on is a 50/50 bet and due to the adaptive difficulty, all of the enemies level up along with you so you never feel as though you've gotten more powerful.

    The game's worst element is it's adaptive difficulty which is based on the way you play. A pacifist playthrough results in endless grind, absurdly long battles and an overall feeling that you are always the weakest around. If you go wild and start killing everybody (which is what I did at one point when everyone was 10lvls above me and combat became nearly impossible) you will quickly start overpowering most enemies turning the combat into an annoying chore untill you reach the end where you will experience a truly absurd difficulty spike during the final boss battle (good luck fighting someone 15lvls above you).

    One final thing I want to mention is how badly optimized this game is. During my 30 hours with it I experienced over 20 hard crashes, endless loading screens which drag on far too long and hundreds of freezes which left me guessing whether my game had crashed or was just stuck, loading some textures.

    Overall, if you have 50-ish hours which you are ready to sink into a very mediocre AA game that feels extremely last gen, maybe Vampyr will be perfect for you and you'll be able to play through everything it has to offer. For everyone else tho, skip this one, it's yet another bad PS+ free game Sony got from the bargain bin.    … Expand
  2. Spidor
    Nov 25, 2020
    1
    The single most boring game I have ever played, period. Of all the walking sims, the real-life job sims, nothing is more boring than the cliched vampire in London schlock. So much bland talking, the clunkiest combat, the samey environments, and the boldness to be more than two hours long. I hate this game with a passion not because it is low budget or because it is janky, but because it isThe single most boring game I have ever played, period. Of all the walking sims, the real-life job sims, nothing is more boring than the cliched vampire in London schlock. So much bland talking, the clunkiest combat, the samey environments, and the boldness to be more than two hours long. I hate this game with a passion not because it is low budget or because it is janky, but because it is completely devoid of anything to make it fun, unique or interesting. "Boring" is the worst thing to be, and Vampyr is the most boring thing, ever.… Expand
  3. PaMeLuM
    Oct 19, 2020
    1
    Ужасное управление, кривая боёвка, вечные глюки, скучные диалоги и сюжет. Вечные смерти из-за за кривизны игры. Отсутствует какой-либо смысл прокачки персонажа, так как пропорционально увеличению уровня героя, увеличивается уровень врагов.Ужасное управление, кривая боёвка, вечные глюки, скучные диалоги и сюжет. Вечные смерти из-за за кривизны игры. Отсутствует какой-либо смысл прокачки персонажа, так как пропорционально увеличению уровня героя, увеличивается уровень врагов.
  4. Blackshine
    Nov 17, 2022
    4
    Забросил игру на половине.
    Скучно.
    Уныло.
    Странные решения геймплея.
    Какашка,Камно,Пэнис.
  5. Kangolking715
    May 17, 2019
    1
    My Least favorite game I've played on ps4. Definitely DO NOT BUY. I'm be happy to give away my copy to anyone who wants it or it can be target practice.
  6. SlavqawOw
    Apr 19, 2020
    3
    Долгие загрузки, кривая боевая система, баги и зависания.
  7. Gambetta610
    Oct 12, 2020
    2
    Виснет, как тварь, невозможно играть, особенно на финальном боссе, когда почти убил.
  8. Skyrant
    Jun 5, 2018
    2
    This is a game that would have been a bad AAA in 2005. I would not even call it a AAA now. This should be around $25 not more.

    The design is bland and uninspired. The presentation is beyond amateurish. Controls, camera and combat feel cheap and have no weight or punch to it. The environments are bland. Good sound design is nowhere to be found, the same goes for music. The "story" is    This is a game that would have been a bad AAA in 2005. I would not even call it a AAA now. This should be around $25 not more.

    The design is bland and uninspired. The presentation is beyond amateurish. Controls, camera and combat feel cheap and have no weight or punch to it. The environments are bland. Good sound design is nowhere to be found, the same goes for music.

    The "story" is as uninspired as the design. The voice acting is mediocre at best and the multiple choice dialog system was all the rage 10 years ago. "You are bitten by a Super Vampire, you "accidentally" kill your sister, you are hunted, you need to find whoever made you into a vampire." What a dreadful boring story.

    Of cause they had to throw in a skill system and crafting system that is as uninspired and boring as the rest of the game. They should have spent more time on combat animations sound and design in general.

    Stay away from this unless its in a bargain bin and even then you will regret the purchase.    … Expand
  9. shiftyman
    Jun 6, 2018
    4
    Everything about this is average, not one thing stands out to make it anything special, claims to be just on a AA budget but has a AAA price tag, wait until it’s in the “cheap section” then it’s worth a few hours.
  10. OutlawTX
    May 21, 2019
    0
    This should have been called Vampyr: Woke at Midnight. The “wokeness” of this game is pure stupidity. Apparently, 1918 London was as woke as 2019. Dontnod? More like don’t buy. I know I won’t. Thank God I bought it used so my money didn’t support this propaganda masquerading as escapism. It’s incessant. One woke cringe after the next. 0/10
  11. Hardgroove
    Jun 8, 2018
    0
    Terrible clunky combat, everybody just sliding and auto aiming.
    Lame dialogs.
    2014 graphics.
    Overpriced.
    And very long loading times, (writing this review while waiting).
  12. mYTHEstar
    Jun 5, 2018
    3
    The graphics are mediocre at max. The animations of main character are straight from 2005, fight is dull. Probably the story and decision making is the point here but...made me refund and uninstall after 5 minutes. TL;DR We are in 2018 and Vampyr is still in 2005
  13. Zalmarus
    Jun 5, 2018
    1
    This is a joke at 60 dollars. It should be anywhere in the range of 10 to 25 to be reasonable.
  14. Fadelzz3454
    Jun 7, 2018
    4
    plz stop, its bothering me, This isn't life is strange 2, so why does it matter? I'm so confused. plz stop
  15. benkenobi1706
    Jun 8, 2018
    2
    Played it for three hours until the game decided to end it for me with a gamebraker. In a quest I fullfilled all objectives but because of a bug I couldn't end it. Therefor there is no chance of loading a save game because all the progress is saved automatically in one save game. Now the only way is to start a new game. Three hours for nothing. Next stop Ebay.
    I liked the atmosphere und    Played it for three hours until the game decided to end it for me with a gamebraker. In a quest I fullfilled all objectives but because of a bug I couldn't end it. Therefor there is no chance of loading a save game because all the progress is saved automatically in one save game. Now the only way is to start a new game. Three hours for nothing. Next stop Ebay.
    I liked the atmosphere und the beginning of the story but technically Vampyr is not finished. The combat system is a bad copy of the Souls-mechanic and doesn't feel very good. Furthermore I hate respawning enemies and the loading times. If you leave a building and reenter it, all the enemies are respawned. This is a no go! Graphics could be better but I liked the sound of the game.
    In the end I wanted to like it but the game doesn't want to be liked. Perhaps I'll give it another try in a few years when it is in sale. In this unfinished state it isn't worth the price.    … Expand
  16. luzarius
    Jun 5, 2018
    2
    The women NPCs in this game are extremely ugly. They're not just ugly, they're mannish too. There is too much SJW politics of forced inclusion & diversity. It's so obvious, it's like a diversity quota checklist. The dialogue is so boring that I cant' keep my eyes open. The game play is horrible.

    If you were hoping for a game like Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines, this is not it. 1918    The women NPCs in this game are extremely ugly. They're not just ugly, they're mannish too. There is too much SJW politics of forced inclusion & diversity. It's so obvious, it's like a diversity quota checklist. The dialogue is so boring that I cant' keep my eyes open. The game play is horrible.

    If you were hoping for a game like Vampire Masquerade Bloodlines, this is not it. 1918 London is not very exciting. This game is a snooze fest.    … Expand
  17. OnlyOneHere
    Jun 8, 2018
    0
    $60 for this game is a joke. It doesn't even have the AAA quality to justify the price. The graphics are bad, the mechanics are horrible. The facial animiations are so bad, I've seen PS2 games with better facial animations. The voice acting is so bad, it sounds like something I would see in a high school play. The story is bad and generic. There is no variety in enemy or level design. The$60 for this game is a joke. It doesn't even have the AAA quality to justify the price. The graphics are bad, the mechanics are horrible. The facial animiations are so bad, I've seen PS2 games with better facial animations. The voice acting is so bad, it sounds like something I would see in a high school play. The story is bad and generic. There is no variety in enemy or level design. The combat is boring and repetitive. To make matters worse, the developers set this game in 1918. I don't know why developers these days are so obsessed with setting games during ancient times. That just give games a boring atmosphere and it limits what the player can do.

    Also, there is no multiplayer. So once you beat the main story, there is no reason to touch this game again. $60 for a low budget game with no replay value is a cashgrab. I recommend you pick this game up when the price of this game drops to $5.    … Expand
  18. Pawlikowsky
    Jun 5, 2018
    0
    Crap game and one of the biggest disappointments in 2018. Graphic is bad, story is meh and game is slow and boring. But this is a game from the creators of the weak Life is Strange, so this game was doomed to failure.
  19. vault2wasteland
    Jun 12, 2019
    2
    Absolutely atrocious combat system. I was warned but I could never imagine a so called AAA game that sold for $99 could be so incredibly bad.

    I would love to be able to experience the story and uncover more dialogue options but I am so over the combat that I just can't keep playing. The combat is clunky, repetitive and boring. The enemies dart around, moving like a vampire should be but    Absolutely atrocious combat system. I was warned but I could never imagine a so called AAA game that sold for $99 could be so incredibly bad.

    I would love to be able to experience the story and uncover more dialogue options but I am so over the combat that I just can't keep playing. The combat is clunky, repetitive and boring. The enemies dart around, moving like a vampire should be but your character feels like controlling a plank of wood.

    You can get blood from rats but oh wait, no rats anywhere near the areas you roam. You could bite an enemy, oh wait, you can only do that if you sneak up on them and all the human enemies walk around in such a way that you can't actually sneak up on them (and even if you could, there is no flipping sneak button, you have to press the thumbstick super lightly). It is super easy to die at the hands of a single enemy that you took out with no trouble before... which brings me to the check point system. It sucks. With each fight being tedious and unimaginative it is a royal pain in the ass to take out each enemy and then if you f up, you have to do the whole section again with all 6 of the enemies you (painstakingly) killed respawning.

    I don't know why this game chose to include such terrible combat when it has an interesting story to tell. It would have greatly benefited from a 'story' or easy mode for people who don't want to deal with the god awful combat system.

    Also it is ridiculous how your character can't even climb over or hide behind objects and how he can supposedly teleport but there's no way to sneak around 3 human enemies blocking a bridge

    I wanted to like this game so bad and I am just so disappointed. Never should have been a full price game

    Oh yeah, longest loading times after dying than any ps4 game I can remember    … Expand
  20. mikas323
    Oct 21, 2020
    0
    I was having a blast with the combat and gore of this game but then the talking of this game made it feel like a talking simulator where everithing else doesnt matter.
  21. darthcooper
    Dec 31, 2019
    2
    I want to play this game but is so frustrating. You spend more time running around trying to find a way through a gate and no matter what level you are your run into this bull **** level scaling nonsense. Games are just no fun anymore. If I want a challenge I get up and go to work. I don't want to work at playing a game. The point of a game for me is to feel invisible take on anything andI want to play this game but is so frustrating. You spend more time running around trying to find a way through a gate and no matter what level you are your run into this bull **** level scaling nonsense. Games are just no fun anymore. If I want a challenge I get up and go to work. I don't want to work at playing a game. The point of a game for me is to feel invisible take on anything and my mind free of everyday bull****. but these games want you to run around frustrated and becoming bored and this is very tedious.… Expand
  22. DrummBumm
    Aug 14, 2018
    4
    I'm not quite sure why this game got such high reviews. Sure, its neat if you're into the whole Bloodborne approach to combat (parrying, respawning/difficult enemies). But I found it too difficult and frustrating in the amount of times I died only to have to wait a solid 2 minutes for the game to load. Its almost impossible to progress without 'embracing' most of the population. It wasI'm not quite sure why this game got such high reviews. Sure, its neat if you're into the whole Bloodborne approach to combat (parrying, respawning/difficult enemies). But I found it too difficult and frustrating in the amount of times I died only to have to wait a solid 2 minutes for the game to load. Its almost impossible to progress without 'embracing' most of the population. It was also very annoying to have to constantly maneuver and outrun OP mobs on the street only to get cornered and killed because my cool down times were too long and I couldn't block. There were also some frame rate issues and game pauses during random loading times throughout the game. The graphics were not very good for todays standards. Most of the storyline commentary was boring, having to talk to everyone just to find a stupid clue that doesn't do much good anyways. I feel like this game tried hard to be a bloodborne/dark souls ripoff but with more RPG elements added, and thats probably why i didn't like it.… Expand
  23. Br_AgSs
    Oct 27, 2020
    2
    While the setting is nice, the game is very boring. The gameplay is weird, the combat is clunky and the story is rushed. I loved what DontNod did with Life Is Strange, but this one is really bad.
  24. Yijaaaaa
    Oct 20, 2019
    0
    No tiene nivel de dificultad, te quedas estancado, y acaba aburriendo, vaya coñazo no poder segui adelante, osease no lo compreis, vaya robo robo robo robo
  25. Xvatch
    Oct 8, 2020
    0
    Literally anyone can make this in Dreams, and it would actually play better. It's like they have ran out of money and improvised for half or more of the game. Movement and combat is horrible and worse than Mortal Shell and Lords of the Fallen. And it doesn't make up for it in dialogue or story either
  26. KadirCoruk
    May 24, 2021
    0
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  27. maddiplomat
    Jun 1, 2021
    0
    Unplayable, as you cannot even change controller sensitivity. How are such games even allowed to be released?
  28. Hawks2018
    Nov 3, 2021
    2
    This game is just abysmal. It is wretched. Mind-numbingly boring, stunningly awful in a technical, story and gameplay aspect. So utterly, utterly atrocious on so many levels it makes you angry.

    Picked it up for less than $10 on ps store and even if it had've been a dollar it would still be a ripoff. I understand that many critics are just lazy shills who provide good reviews in    This game is just abysmal. It is wretched. Mind-numbingly boring, stunningly awful in a technical, story and gameplay aspect. So utterly, utterly atrocious on so many levels it makes you angry.

    Picked it up for less than $10 on ps store and even if it had've been a dollar it would still be a ripoff.

    I understand that many critics are just lazy shills who provide good reviews in exchange for financial and other rewards, I expect it.

    But the disparity between the critic's consensus of 70 and the reality of slogging through a god-awful, abhorrent mess has never been starker.

    I'm holding out for at least a handful of great PS5 games til I upgrade, and picked this up only because there was basically nothing left.

    I finished it, I am ashamed to say. I finished it on the hardest setting purely because I had nothing left to play, and am both stupidly stubborn in finishing what I start, along with being simply unable to drag myself away from this stunningly atrocious train-wreck.

    I can barely even begin to describe the myriad abject failures of this self-indulgent tripe, and am too angry at whoever birthed this travesty to dwell on it much longer.

    I never thought it would be possible to hate someone responsible for any particular product, but that was before I encountered the cancerous, slovenly, misguided, ineptitude and imbecility of "Vampyr".

    Wow. Just.....wow.    … Expand
  29. alexslork
    Oct 26, 2020
    4
    eally liked the story and the choice of being good and evil.
    But thats about it.
    Way to many loading screens and they were too long(e
  30. Shadow1234
    Oct 16, 2018
    3
    When I play a game I do so as an achievement hunter. I am always looking for that Platinum Trophy and because of that I rate games not only on the game but on the enjoyment I get out of getting 100% completion in terms of achievements.

    I had high hopes for this game and knew I would purchase it the moment I heard about it. That being said I try to avoid spoilers and as much game play    When I play a game I do so as an achievement hunter. I am always looking for that Platinum Trophy and because of that I rate games not only on the game but on the enjoyment I get out of getting 100% completion in terms of achievements.

    I had high hopes for this game and knew I would purchase it the moment I heard about it. That being said I try to avoid spoilers and as much game play previews as I can to not ruin the story.

    When I purchased the game the first thing I did was look at the achievements and realized some save scumming would be required to avoid having to do multiple playthrough's. Which I don't mind but I feel a proper game should not require multiple playthrough's to get all the achievements. Or multiple saves, you should be able to get all achievements on a single play. At this point the game score for me was 9/10.

    Soon into the game I realized after every choice was made the game instantly saved. No ability to save except when the game chose is not acceptable to me. Current score now 8/10.

    The graphics of the game I felt appeared to be in Alpha. The colors were dull and boring, and the game seems to be from the PS3 era, not the PS4/PS4 pro. The various districts in the game were also dull and had nothing to them. Current score now 7/10.

    The decisions you make in this game do not get me started. One of the achievements is to not kill/drink blood from any of the characters you meet. The game is called VAMPYR! Trying to do this achievement was worse then watching grass grow and paint dry. Plus if you do not drink blood you do not level up, which eventually means you will see enemies several times your level. Current score now 4/10, yes that is a big jump but c'mon seriously.

    This game just did nothing for me, the sound and speech was fine, however you have to sit through an entire conversation. For people such as myself who can read a bit faster and want to speed through the text, you can skip, but it will skip an entire dialog and not just the text windowed. Current score now 3/10.

    The combat in the game is ridiculous, just copy and paste each battle. Seriously their is little variety as you mow down the games enemies, certainly not as much variety as the game leads you to believe with the various abilities. Current score now 2/10.

    The story is this games greatest feature and why it is getting all the great reviews. However once you get past the amazing story to the bedrock underneath. There is not much going for this game,, however I am a sucker for a great story and so the score gets a point back . Current score 3/10.

    My hopes quickly dwindled for this game as I chose to drive a stake through Vampyr!
    Final score: 3/10

    Pros:
    Story
    Speech
    Sound

    Cons:
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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 67 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 67
  2. Mixed: 29 out of 67
  3. Negative: 4 out of 67
  1. Gamers Heroes
    Aug 26, 2018
    60
    Vampyr is a collection of wonderful ideas held back by a limited budget and a dated engine.
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  2. RPGamer
    Aug 17, 2018
    70
    For those looking for a unique, dread-filled experience in the RPG realm, Vampyr offers a type of game seldom seen. But much like the streets of 1918 London, expect a few bumps along the way.
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  3. CD-Action
    Aug 2, 2018
    85
    Vampyr is unique. It’s not beautiful, its combat leaves much to be desired and its limited budget shows, but if you choose to turn a blind eye to these flaws, it will captivate you with its mature, morally ambiguous story and a series of dilemmas that usually lack a “right” answer. [07/2018, p.60]
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