The Vampire House ١٢+

The writing, while simple is compelling and interesting, the characters are as well. I wanted to get to know them and build friendships etc. If you spend enough time with a character, you can choose to go to the halloween party with them, and get a different ending depending on the character. I’ve done this with elizabeth and malka. unfortunately, if you don’t choose enough events with any particular person (6 total per person) you aren’t able to choose anyone and the story abruptly ends. Also, I tried to do all of roxanne’s events, but was on out able to do 5, and the game wouldn’t let me go the 6th.

This story does an excellent job creating characters and atmosphere. It creates a very interesting world, that to be honest, I would like to see more of.

The only issue I have with it is that there seems to be a lot of underutilized mechanics, and the replay value, while good, is bogged down by the in-depth narrative. You can learn all these "special skills" and buy new outfits, and it takes a while and some planning to earn them, but they do not amount to much.

The replay value all comes in experiencing the story with each of the separate characters, which just basically turns it into a dating sim. You have to bogg through a lot of the early narrative, which is fine, but just is a waste.

All in all you have a fantastic story, fascinating characters, with a nice focus on non stat based mechanics. It's weak point is some of those mechanics are underwhelming, and the replay value is left behind by the narrative.

Four out of five, glad I paid for it.

Honestly I really wanted to give this 5 stars. The story is amazing, the mechanics are great, the characters are likable and relatable, but want makes it lose two stars is the fact that it abruptly ends with no closure for anything. You don’t find out anything that makes the story so exciting. It’s a good 30minute to an hour read and not much else because of the abrupt ending. No point in paying for the 2.99 no ads because you don’t run into any until you finish the story. And then if you want to do something difference wait the 20 minutes cool down and then start over.
If this story continued or this was just the first part of a multipart series that releases like a comic it would be well worth 5 stars but the way it is now it’s 3/5 stars.