Vampyr

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  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. SplitMind
    Dec 19, 2020
    4
    Vampyr is a game that is almost great for me, making it even more frustrating that it comes so close to greatness, yet some very odd design choices hold it back and even more vexing is that these have not been patched over.
    The graphics of Vampyr match the ambience. The vampire genre has been done to death and the early 20th Century Britain was a great choice of setting. The game suffers    Vampyr is a game that is almost great for me, making it even more frustrating that it comes so close to greatness, yet some very odd design choices hold it back and even more vexing is that these have not been patched over.
    The graphics of Vampyr match the ambience. The vampire genre has been done to death and the early 20th Century Britain was a great choice of setting. The game suffers a bit from everything being a bit dark and lacking in colour, as well as the repetition of enemy sprites. Given that it’s not a AAA title it can be forgiven for not having the best graphics, however combined with the issues below makes the game suffer more for it.

    The story of Vampyr is a compelling one and being set amid the Spanish Flu pandemic made playing this game in 2020 resonate in a way nobody would ever have expected when it was released. It took me some getting used to, as at first so many names and information was thrown at me that I found it overwhelming and couldn’t keep track of quests and characters very well. The dialogue choices are a key component of Vampyr, and there is definitely plenty to sink your teeth into, however I also found it got rather mundane by the midpoint of the game, as I sent a good 50% of my time in conversation, another 30% wandering around lost, and the rest in combat.
    In order to develop your dialogue choices with characters you have to acquire clues from taking to other people or by finding evidence, both of which are essentially fetch quests. This is further confounded by the gameplay of Vampyr, which is where I had such a tumultuous love-hate relationship with the game.

    The fundamentals of the game is your choice between feeding your hunger or by resisting and therefore stabilizing the local community. The problem I found with this is that by being the good guy and not feeding off people you actually make the game harder for yourself as you are weaker unless prepared for the inevitable fights. Furthermore, it was often quicker and easier to just bite someone rather than pursue their banal quests to complete their dialogue and story. You unlock powers very quickly doing this and therefore have a much greater motive to be a ‘bad’ guy than the good guy. On one hand this may seem unbalanced, however it could also be argued that it provides more of a difference in the choice you make, as you see a visible impact around you when you continually take lives.

    However all of the above is greatly undermined and almost deemed irrelevant as the developers made some rather silly choices and omissions in their game design. Firstly, this game suffers badly from there being no fast travel. I don’t understand how this wasn’t implemented even after launch as many reviews have noted its absence. Secondly, this is further exasperated by some bad layouts on the map itself. The game is made almost entirely out of corridors and streets, with random gates locking off sections of the game, meaning you have a tedious journey to get around these and open them from the other side. This is also very odd given that you have a kind of teleport ability that lets you reach certain ledges, but a simple gate seems to be your kryptonite. These two aspects of the game mean that no matter how good the rest of the game is, it will be difficult to enjoy when there is ample tedious travel.

    What really brought this game down in my ranking for it was when I reached the final boss and discovered the most unbalanced portion of the game (SPOILERS). The last boss was extraordinarily highly-levelled and upon reading online (yet again!) I discovered specific skills and weapons were needed to defeat it; that or grind for more arduous hours. This is a fundamentally broken mechanic and the cherry on top of my poisoned experience with Vampyr.

    Finally, a special mention also goes to the combat. They seem to have imitated SoulsBorne games here but haven’t quite succeeded. Many enemies and bosses to require an engaging amount of strategy, however also suffer from being overly cheap with their attacks (some even summon ghosts to attack all at once) and having inconsistent health bars, in that the damage you do to them is high one minute then minimal the next. The most frustrating aspect is probably how few exp you get from defeating enemies, which made me want to avoid fights altogether, when the game should be encouraging you to explore all mechanics to stimulate you with diversity.

    Overall, Vampyr is more frustrating than enjoyable at times. Frustrating because game design isn’t always great, but also frustrating because I can see how great this game could be with a few minor tweaks and a couple of bigger tweaks. The concept and premise are excellent, while I have big grievances with the level designs and minor frustrations with things such as tiny fonts. There is plenty of lore and socializing to get lost in, but this ‘Doctor Simulator’ is hard to recommend    … Expand
  6. 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
  7. AntiMXT
    Feb 24, 2023
    4
    Way too much repetitive dialogue and ABYSMAL combat mechanics. (I've never felt so underpowered as an IMMORTAL vampire) A game where fast travel doesn't exist and the idea of running through those stupid streets, up dead-end alleys, where stubbing your toe leads to death (thus respawning miles away) just to TRY "upgrade". **** it, I'm out. They've taken an ok idea and kept it mid at best.
  8. sks2002
    Nov 19, 2019
    4
    Boring game with old style game process like old days 2d games. The only good thing is scenario which is quite unusual.
  9. raptus21
    Nov 27, 2019
    4
    I am very disappointed with the game. I find it full of bugs and irrational limitations in exploration. The worst thing is total lack of save/load function. Whatever you do is done forever. Not possible to max out without conversation guide, which makes playing boring. Graphics is ok, but could be better. Sucking blood sucks, forces you to listen to victim's thoughts. Fight is notI am very disappointed with the game. I find it full of bugs and irrational limitations in exploration. The worst thing is total lack of save/load function. Whatever you do is done forever. Not possible to max out without conversation guide, which makes playing boring. Graphics is ok, but could be better. Sucking blood sucks, forces you to listen to victim's thoughts. Fight is not pleasant, not possible to hide or surprise attack. All enemies attack you instantly when you pick one of them, even if hidden behind wall or something. Second worst is exploration. You can use vampire skills only in places that allow that. You can run around building many times before you notice small mark of path inside. Recommended to masochists only.… Expand
  10. patch0433
    Dec 1, 2020
    4
    I played it on a PS4 when it was released on ps plus for free.

    I liked the setting, the soundtrack, some of the characters and the combat was repetitive, but fun. I don't know if it was just my game, but it crashed so many times and had many graphic bugs. I hated the world, it was way too large for so few characters and activities and combined with no fast traveling, it was a pain    I played it on a PS4 when it was released on ps plus for free.

    I liked the setting, the soundtrack, some of the characters and the combat was repetitive, but fun.

    I don't know if it was just my game, but it crashed so many times and had many graphic bugs.
    I hated the world, it was way too large for so few characters and activities and combined with no fast traveling, it was a pain in the ass to run always from A to B and killing the same stupid npcs.
    The Boss fight weren't challenging at all especially the final boss.

    But what i hated the most, were the decisions and the autosaving. Most of the time, I didn't know what the good or the bad decision was, because I didn't know how the characters would react on some of the dialog decisions. The i choose the wrong option and BOOM the hint was gone.
    I am perfectionist and I play my games as one. And I hate it when I cant unlock all dialog options, doors or chests. I was forced to run through this empty world, seeing looked doors and areas I couldn't reach, and I didn't know what i had to do or what i did wrong. It was sooo frustrating.
    Some of the side quests weren't completable, if you hadn't reach a specific point in the main quest.

    The choice you had to make in every district when you finished it, felt like it had no impact on the result. I don't wanted Nurse Crane to blackmail Elizabeth anymore, but i don't wanted to kill her.
    So i erased her memory, of the information against Elizabeth. I wanted Nurse Crane to stop blackmailing her and continue her work in white chapel, or so i thought. Because in the end she just had to die. I was frustrated because, this was not the result i wanted, but i could load my saved game, because you can't. Same with Sean The game forces you to make decisions but don't give you all the information.

    The game is simply not good enough to play it multiply time just for the outcome of every decision.

    What is with the inventory? You can carry like 20 Weapons and other material all the time, but MY GOD THE AMMUNITION IS WAY TO HEAVY and I don't want to start with the f**king loading screens.    … Expand
  11. Asgard0822
    Oct 11, 2020
    4
    Really 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(even with a SSD in my PS4 Pro)
    combat is really basic and not fluent.
    After opening your map, movement controls freaked out a few seconds.
    Happy i got this for free with PS+ and didnt pay 60 bucks for it, cause thats way overpriced
  12. solomon_gumball
    Oct 11, 2022
    4
    really hated how it felt like the writers were constantly punishing me for making what seemed like moral choices (ex: my eyes turning permanently "evil"/bloodshot red for killing a literal serial killer, sparing a character leading to innocent civilians getting murdered because surprise! he's a psychopath)..would've worked better for me if most of the choices & outcomes had anyreally hated how it felt like the writers were constantly punishing me for making what seemed like moral choices (ex: my eyes turning permanently "evil"/bloodshot red for killing a literal serial killer, sparing a character leading to innocent civilians getting murdered because surprise! he's a psychopath)..would've worked better for me if most of the choices & outcomes had any foreshadowing whatsoever. basically "[GLASS HIM]: the game".. unlike in a game like Mass Effect or Dragon Age, finding out more information about characters has no real payoff or impact on the plot unless you're planning on eating them.

    P.S. It's 2022 guys, why is the PS4 version of your game still crashing every 45 minutes    … Expand
  13. Blackshine
    Nov 17, 2022
    4
    Забросил игру на половине.
    Скучно.
    Уныло.
    Странные решения геймплея.
    Какашка,Камно,Пэнис.
  14. 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
  15. 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:
    Everything else    … Expand
  16. Vizantiyec
    Sep 23, 2021
    3
    Low-quality game, a lot of bugs, lags, and freezes!
    Combat system as in-game in 2001
    The only plus is the characters and the storyline!

    DO NOT recommend!
  17. GamesXpert
    Mar 10, 2022
    3
    Souls-like game. Very buggy game, constantly crashes. The story evolves on your choices and if you choose wrong answers you lose quests, that means less xp and difficulty in finishing. And you cannot load last save cause there is autosave which cannot be turned off. The story is interesting
  18. SlavqawOw
    Apr 19, 2020
    3
    Долгие загрузки, кривая боевая система, баги и зависания.
  19. rwncop
    Dec 10, 2020
    3
    Unfortunately I stopped playing this at the point of chapter 3. I just became very uninterested.

    The combat was probably my least favourite that probably put me off. The blood meter system is pretty cool, having to bite people to be able to use abilities which often led to some challenging battles when I ran out of blood. However, other than that it got very boring. Early in the game I    Unfortunately I stopped playing this at the point of chapter 3. I just became very uninterested.

    The combat was probably my least favourite that probably put me off. The blood meter system is pretty cool, having to bite people to be able to use abilities which often led to some challenging battles when I ran out of blood. However, other than that it got very boring. Early in the game I had already picked out my weapon choice and the game doesn't really encourage you to try different weapons except from the tutorial. This leads to you using the same abilities and weapon choice through most of the game, making every enemy encounter the same fight. There are a variety of abilities to choose from but only a few of them seem to be useful in combat, there was no point using a shield ability when all I'm doing is dodging and hitting attack each battle.

    The story and world was what had me interested. It's such an interesting story that gets set up pretty well at the beginning and you learn more and more as you play. This makes you want to play more so that you can find out more about the lore. However, because of the gameplay I just couldn't be bothered to keep going.

    The levelling up system is very unique but was very frustrating slowing down the gameplay even more, You could only level up when you went to sleep, and if you decide not to suck blood from civilians the game is made even harder. If you decide to eat civilians you get a huge boost in XP, but it makes that area of the city worse in terms of health. I decided not to do this which meant I was 5-7 levels below the enemies which then makes the gameplay slower and more frustrating.

    Overall, the game has an interesting story to follow and a detailed world to explore, but the gameplay was holding it all down resulting in a frustrating experience.    … Expand
  20. Lonitx
    Nov 9, 2020
    3
    I wouldn't mind the glitches or freezing or overall sub par performance so much as the constant crashing, I've played loads of games on ps4 and none were this bad, the amount of times I've had to close the app and restart per play session is insane, couple that with the longest loading screens I've ever witnessed... gives you ample time to think about better games to play at least.
  21. piuscorvus
    Aug 17, 2020
    3
    This game has so many bugs and glitches that I couldn't even finished it. Visually it looks as a PS3 title but it is fairly interesting RPG. However, there were countless glitches that prevented me finishing few side quests and the game crashed do many times too, which really ruined entire experience.
  22. Yiiman
    Nov 27, 2020
    3
    good plot. but how I hesitated to reload the game. constantly freezes, long loads and a bunch of other bugs. she blows my brain
  23. MrsBigPizza
    Jul 1, 2021
    3
    Pretty good storyline but the bad realization of the game world.
    Also pretty bad fighting system. And another game mechanics feel pretty **** But because of Lady Ashbury (she's is my crush), I won't give this game 1 of 10. I won't recommend this game to buy, better watch game film on YouTube and buy something else.
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  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. 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
  30. cosmistuff
    Jun 24, 2018
    2
    The story of this game is really interesting and that makes me sad because I'll never finish it. Why? Because there is no manual save. That may not be a big deal, but when choices are not explained, or when you just click the wrong button you have to start the game over to go back. The idea is to make the choices matter because the player can't go back. But guess what? If I wanted to playThe story of this game is really interesting and that makes me sad because I'll never finish it. Why? Because there is no manual save. That may not be a big deal, but when choices are not explained, or when you just click the wrong button you have to start the game over to go back. The idea is to make the choices matter because the player can't go back. But guess what? If I wanted to play like that, i could do that in literally every game ever just by not going back. I don't need a game company to force me to play this way. Especially when their dialog trees make it incredibly difficult to know what's actually going to happen from any choice...or when quests bug out so that you can't finish them and can't load your game before the bug.… Expand
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#17 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2018
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#19 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2018

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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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