Vampire — Parliament of Knives ١٢+

In terms of story I love this game. I think it perfectly captures the VTM setting, and provides a compelling narrative. It reminds me a lot of my own VTM home game. I found myself genuinely invested in my character and what happened to her (not something every game / story like this actually manages to achieve). There are so many different routes the story can take that you simply will not get the full picture your first time through, encouraging replays. I’ve gone through myself 5 times and 2 additional times with my sister & dad, it’s that good. Every character has an angle and they all feel well developed and real. For me Corliss and Lucca definitely are my favorites. Originally I gave the game 4/5 due to a bug which reset story progress, but this has been fixed, and I felt the need to come revise my score, I now happily give a full 5/5. This is the definitive story put out by choice games, a touch better than Night Road and MILES ahead of Sins of Our Sires.

Picked this up on a recommendation from a friend, knowing little about the setting or the RPG. It’s really well written with lots of branching story paths begging to be explored on future re-reads. I won’t get into the plot here since others have covered it.

I do have two criticisms, both related to the engine/app. These are not deal breakers by any means, but they would improve the experience.

First, even on dark mode, there are white UI elements. This is quite distracting in a dark room. They are not present on the iPad version, so I’d recommend using that instead of an iPhone.

Second, there is no option to go back a page or two. I don’t think the game should let you change your choices, but it would be nice to be able to re-read the last few pages.

Fans of VtM are starved for fresh content, so I’m super excited to have stumbled upon this absolute GEM. The only suggestion I have, is to please give the ability to go back a page. I completely understand locking in a choice and being unable to go back and change it. However it would be really helpful to be able to go back and reread some conversations, especially when coming back to the story after a couple days. I’d even take a running synopsis of the plot so far depending on your choices up to that point in the “show stats” area — just something to keep track of your progress and/or allow you to reread what you have already would really enhance the experience for me, and help me immerse myself a bit more. Thank you so much for making this for us!!