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Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
Developer Big Bad Wolf
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong is a role-playing video game developed by Big Bad Wolf and published by Nacon. It was released in May 2022 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S and in September 2023 for Nintendo Switch. It is based on White Wolf Publishing's tabletop role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, and is a part of the larger World of Darkness series. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
735 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
51
Mixed
101 positive · 96 negative
95% range 44–58%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 22 | 6 | 476 |
| Steam reviews | 101 | 96 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 13 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
231 of 401 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
51% recommend · 99 yes, 95 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 194 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (479 of 767 positive).
Players are split on Swansong, with many praising its World of Darkness atmosphere and story. [1][2][3] Some reviewers warn of technical issues, including bugs and a lack of manual saves. [4][5][6] Several players note that the game's mechanics can be frustrating and require a guide. [7][8][9]
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Representative posts
- [5]
I sincerely wish I had read the reviews before buying - this is among the worst games I have ever played. There is no save mechanic and the game is full of bugs. It often becomes necessary to restart a scene to correct issues, but the inability to save means that restarting a scene can require repeating several hours of play. I had to repeat every scene at least once; 12 hours in, after repeating the fifth scene 7 …
- [9]
Paid $6 and it's still probably not worth it. I love VtM material but this game requires you to metagame using walkthrough guides to know what you need to succeed or you get screwed and have to replay over and over with relatively slow moving, slow progressing gameplay. They created an open-ended system but with railroaded choices so you're brutally punished if you didn't guess correctly. I chose stats the way I …
- [1]
Much better than the reviews suggest — a true World of Darkness experience Review: Honestly, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong deserves a much better reputation than it has. Most online reviews don’t do it justice, especially if you actually know and love the World of Darkness. The atmosphere is spot on — you really feel like a vampire caught in a web of external threats, court intrigue, and personal struggle. It …
- [11]
This game is a MUST BUY during SALES. (Note: I bought it full price and I don't regret my decision because I want to support the developer) The game likely won't be patched, so the bugs are here to stay. However, if you love Narrative Investigative RPGs and deep character stories, it is highly addictive. Just be prepared to fight the system as much as the mystery! ------------------------------------------- Swansong …
- [2]
I love this game. I know this game is not really popular, but I think it's a perfectly solid AA game and definitely a fascinating VtM game. It's largely a walk-around game with lots of interactions, puzzles, and dialogue to go through. You play as three main vampires, Leysha, Emem, and Galeb. They are all incredibly different and have different themes and narratives that weave together to gain the full picture of …
Summarised from 34 of the 300 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
51% of the 194 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong. The complaint that keeps coming up: bugs and technical issues, including game-breaking ones. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong received "mixed or average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Critics praised the game's RPG mechanics, player freedom, and lore, while criticizing the gameplay, narrative, and a perceived lack of polish. Eric Van Allen of Destructoid gave the game a 7 out of 10, writing, "When it's leaning heavily into logic puzzles, mystery, deduction, and sleuthing, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong sings. It's the janky issues, rough exploration puzzles, and a few odd choices that prevent Swansong from being a showstopper." Michael Goroff of EGM appreciated the amount of player choice present, noting that it lent depth to an otherwise standard…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 735 · most liked firstWhile replaying Vampire Bloodlines on twitch recently, I stumbled upon secrets that I hadn't known were in the game! Like this one! It's totally real! Happy Halloween! 🎃 - If you'd like to support me by donating, you can on patreon.com/dreamandnightmare or subscribestar.adult/dreamandnightmare -
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry no stream today! More Elden Ring soon! Also FROMSOFT VAMPIRE GAME? THEY MADE IT JUST FOR ME?
neutral · AI labelView post →Someone HAS TO use this in their Vampire: The Masquerade game #vamily
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished a solo RPG, Thousand Year Vampire, and it’s my first I’ve ever tried. My character was a vampire in Trondheim, who moved to York and then New Orleans and NYC. I learned so many things, like the Harrying of the North, Staple City laws, early NYC music halls, and more. Good game :)
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Survivors is a game I’ve always wanted to play but scared it would ruin my life. Now I see they added Castlevania stuff 👀👀
neutral · AI labelView post →you'll never understand John Mateer's game. 9-D chess. Esperanto playcalling. Football zaza that will leave you reading Sanskrit in the LED flickers. Idi Amin playmaking. He sent his game tape to Criterion and they filed it under Classic Italian Vampire Erotica. He stole a car and it thanked him.
neutral · AI labelView post →Between that One Piece restaurant management game and the JJK Vampire Survivors game, I am glad anime IPs are expanding beyond just bog-standard arena fighters.
neutral · AI labelView post →So very excited and honoured to share that I'm one of the writers for Vampire the Masquerade: Eternal Whispers!! Wishlist now 🩸❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/4102480/...
neutral · AI labelView post →i was recently commissioned by the team of Self Care Vampire, an upcoming mobile game where the better you take care of yourself, the tastier you are for your vampire boyfriend. they've got a playtest coming up soon, and would invite you to meet elijah~ www.selfcarevampire.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Tactics will be revealed in a couple of days. We got the steampage ready, the reveal trailer done and I am really excited to show you what @kosowski.bsky.social & started to create in the last ~2 years of spare time. Certainly there is some of my best art in this game & lots of care.
positive · AI labelView post →Vampire Survivors continues to pave the way for AAAAA game mechanics 🧛 unlocking doors and jumping - this is innovation ✨
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Survivors is coming to a tabletop near you 🦇 That's right we're getting a board game, because playing Vampire Survivors on several digital platforms isn't enough! Kickstarter coming in Autumn 2025 🍂
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire: The Masquerade was released at Origins Game Fair 35 years ago today!
neutral · AI labelView post →New avatar 🖤 Bats, my tremere from our current Vampire the Masquerade game. It has been a while since I posted my fang babies here. We have been playing a lot of werewolf! #vampirethemasquerade #vampire #tremere #wod
neutral · AI labelView post →🦇 Vampire Survivors: The Grimoire 🦇 that's right our game is getting an OFFICIAL LORE BOOK from @titanbooks.bsky.social! (wait, what?) our lore is about to get even deeper & more intense 🧛
neutral · AI labelView post →Darkstalkers are still Not Dead. The old games are still there and always had thriving communities to keep them alive. It's never been a better time to play them. We really don't need a new game. Hop on Vampire Savior. Hop on Vampire Hunter.
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Crawlers releasing on April 21st for $9.99 (PS5/Switch/Xbox Series/Steam/Game Pass) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaAE...
neutral · AI labelView post →A Game｛Nuryniìth｝☔️ #oc #videogames #vampire
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW VIDEO It’s almost 2 hours of Vampire Hunter D - the game, the books, the movies, vampire mythology, the history of Dracula’s son, the anime industry in the 80s and 90s. It’s all happening!🦇🦇 youtu.be/s4vgZ5lwMBc
neutral · AI labelView post →I reviewed Vampire Hunters! Took me a while to finally write this one, but here are my thoughts on a surprisingly clever Vampire Survivors-style game: www.thejimquisition.com/post/vampire...
neutral · AI labelView post →I sincerely wish I had read the reviews before buying - this is among the worst games I have ever played. There is no save mechanic and the game is full of bugs. It often becomes necessary to restart a scene to correct issues, but the inability to save means that restarting a scene can require repeating several hours of play. I had to repeat every scene at least once; 12 hours in, after repeating the fifth scene 7 times, I decided it wasn't worth the time and effort despite having purchased…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard is the next game from the makers of Vampire Survivors. The turn-based deck-building roguelike hits PS5 next year. First gameplay: play.st/43DmNbM
neutral · AI labelView post →made a new #pico8 game this weekend!! VAMPIRE vs POPE ARMY adamatomic.itch.io/vampire-vs-p... 👮♀️ pope army took all your stuff (BLOOD TALISMANS) ⛪️ Put you in vampire jail, rude 🩸 you have a Mighty Thirst......
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Survivors type game where you play as Caesar fending off an endless horde of Senators
neutral · AI labelView post →Coming Out to your friendgroup by saying you want to run a Vampire the Masquerade game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ah, I almost forgot a #RandomGameSaturday entry. This week, I reached into one of our PS2 game storage boxes and came away with Vampire Night! One of Namco's arcade light gun game conversions, and as with sister game Ninja Assault, a whole lot of goofy, cheesy fun.
neutral · AI labelView post →it only took us a small eternity and a lot of paperwork, but: all 48 Ode to Castlevania tracks are now included in the Vampire Survivors soundtrack on Steam (for a very long but technically limited time*), at no additional cost to existing owners. (1/2) 🧵 store.steampowered.com/app/2169090/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire survivors is such an addictive and underrated game!
neutral · AI labelView post →Random game Saturday: Vampire Hunter D for PS1! Another survival horror game with tank controls and pre-rendered backgrounds that I’ve yet to play
neutral · AI labelView post →12-days of Game Pass Countdown to the New Year ✨🎮🖥️ Day 11 🎁Vampire Survivors 🔥🔥
neutral · AI labelView post →VAMPIRE QUEENS FIRST EARLY RELEASE GAME LIVE NOW ! www.twitch.tv/vampykinz
neutral · AI labelView post →Paid $6 and it's still probably not worth it. I love VtM material but this game requires you to metagame using walkthrough guides to know what you need to succeed or you get screwed and have to replay over and over with relatively slow moving, slow progressing gameplay. They created an open-ended system but with railroaded choices so you're brutally punished if you didn't guess correctly. I chose stats the way I would think makes sense for each character from a roleplaying perspective, and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Vampire Survivor booth at Tokyo Indie Game Summit is fire 🧄
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire rock band VENA! Commission for Bucharest By Night. You can check their game page on instagram #vampirethemasquerade #vampire #BRart #art
neutral · AI labelView post →The number of times I have clicked on an obviously AI thumbnail with way, way *too* much detail only to see a Vampire Survivor clone with programmer art so ugly it would be embarrassing for a jam game is just way, way too high.
neutral · AI labelView post →welcome to Online Game Store, we have hot new releases like Futa Slave Massage School, Furry Himmler Simulator, Hentai Sudoku (Bundle), Cat Farm Story Adventure Cozy Puzzle Cute Harvest AI Romance Vampire, "Self-Aware" Isekai, Partially Completed Game Jam Entry, $30 SNES prototype, and Call of Duty
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Survivors is getting an official board game #VampireSurvivors #BoardGames #Gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →Still in total awe over the Castlevania DLC for Vampire Survivors. Four bucks for ALL THAT, one of the best endings to a game add-on ever, and 48 remixes. Value like that doesn’t come often.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm glad I finished this game, even though I enjoyed the story it wants to tell. VtM Swansong feels like it's feels like it's tripping over its own ambition to deliever an exciting and progressive game. I liked some parts of it, let me begin with the things I found thrilling: + You get to play 3 different characters and perspectives and all of them feel different from each other. You get to play villians (or let's say people who have very gray morals), you don't need to be a hero here. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The lack of a manual save system is one thing, but the last save point being over an hour ago is unacceptable.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reviewing (mostly) every game (or DLC) in my library, part 518: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️☆☆ (8/10) Ya know. I can see why Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong has a Mixed review. I mean, I don't agree, but I see why! First off, it's janky. Even two years after launch, I encountered (minor) noticeable bugs. Others had the misfortune of encountering game-breaking bugs or soft locks. Second, the voice acting and animations are a bit strange. The environments are beautiful, and the voice acting is largely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game for around 20 hours, and even with detailed reading and taking my time, that's about as far as it goes.If you're looking for action, definitely don't buy this game.The game is heavily focused on story, dialogue, and investigation rather than action. - Downsides - 1. The game's pace is way too slow.Extremely slow. It can literally make you sleepy. 2. Even with the graphics settings on the highest possible level, the game looks very unaesthetic. 3. There aren't enough…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Jordynne's running her first solo game therefore it's going to be a game where she deals with vampires' interpersonal troubles on Vampire Therapist! 🦇 twitch.tv/loadingready...
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Savior is the definitive Darkstalkers game but Vampire Hunter deserves more love imo, its a great game
positive · AI labelView post →This one's a diamond in the rough. The mechanics are the game's weakest point, the skill system seeming intuitive from the start but often punishes you for not speccing in a particular way. It's easy to make a build that is completely useless for 75% of skill checks, and so I would not judge you at all for using a guide. Notes that helped me: * Leysha only needs 1 Point of Security, and nobody else needs any for the Exploration skills. Keys and passwords are always hidden in the environment.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much better than the reviews suggest — a true World of Darkness experience Review: Honestly, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong deserves a much better reputation than it has. Most online reviews don’t do it justice, especially if you actually know and love the World of Darkness. The atmosphere is spot on — you really feel like a vampire caught in a web of external threats, court intrigue, and personal struggle. It absolutely captures the mood of a classic Vampire: The Masquerade RPG session.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vampire Movie: Sinners Zombie Movie (game): The Walking Dead Game Haunting Movie (tv show): The Haunting of Hill House Creature Feature: Them! Found Footage: Rec Slasher: Tucker and Dale vs Evil Cosmic Horror: A Color Out of Space Psychological Horror: The Perfection Horror Comedy: The Babysitter
neutral · AI labelView post →Our Vampire Soulsvania Game Trailer just got more than 150 thousand views from Youtube recommendations in the last few days, just completely out of nowhere, anyone have any idea why? #gamedev #pixelart #metroidvania
neutral · AI labelView post →Well, I must be in a minority here because I quite enjoyed this. Yeah the graphics are a bit naff, but budget's a budget and I can look past that. The werewolf bit was a bit annoying but then the same was true of Bloodlines. There's no real combat here and I'm ok with that, too. Focusing on the intrigue and social aspect was a good take and for a change, I feel like a proper established vampire, not some lick who gets beaten up by a pack of kine. Great voice acting. I particularly like Galeb…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My friends always say "You can't just kill them. There will be someone to take their place." The obvious response is _kill them too_. Eventually, people will stop being so eager to take their place! Though as the comic says, there's always going to be assholes. Limiting how much power they have would be great. I am currently running a game of Vampire predicated on "what if you all just.. took out the ultra rich?". It has been satisfying.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am also super happy that we could get the amazing @chrispariano.bsky.social for Vampire Tactics on board for the Steam HD art. His original work on Gestalt Steam&Cinder was declined by the publisher back then, bc. it was "too baroque". That shouldn't be a problem for our vampire indie game.
neutral · AI labelView post →Vampire Survivors ate up almost all my free time today. Jeez, this game really is like dangerously addictive lmao
positive · AI labelView post →This game is a MUST BUY during SALES. (Note: I bought it full price and I don't regret my decision because I want to support the developer) The game likely won't be patched, so the bugs are here to stay. However, if you love Narrative Investigative RPGs and deep character stories, it is highly addictive. Just be prepared to fight the system as much as the mystery! ------------------------------------------- Swansong completely threw me for a loop. It’s a deep, addictive narrative detective…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The slop clone is trying to, essentially, be that "third impression"; piggyback off the marketing work the legitimate game already did and hoping the buyer won't notice because they're going "Oh yeah Vampire Cockgrove, I was meaning to buy that"
neutral · AI labelView post →The game in itself is very good and I liked the story line and the characters a lot. There are a few bugs here and there that do not destroy the expierence in itself mostly. Just one bug I encountered in the Red Salon was annoying because it made it impossible to finish one storyline but I still could keep playing so it was fine I guess. What isn't fine is that I got to a part in the story that is nearing the end I am guessing and all of the sudden my computer crashed and when I turned the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game. I know this game is not really popular, but I think it's a perfectly solid AA game and definitely a fascinating VtM game. It's largely a walk-around game with lots of interactions, puzzles, and dialogue to go through. You play as three main vampires, Leysha, Emem, and Galeb. They are all incredibly different and have different themes and narratives that weave together to gain the full picture of what is going on in this court. Everything centers around the party, and how…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TONIGHT! 🌩 ☠️ Back to The Lab hosts Vampire Hunter! Did you know this was Daigo's first competitive game? A Capcom classic with a less dizzying pace than Vampire Savior, but with the same characters and strong offense. Check it out on twitch.tv/TheCommunity... Register at challonge.com/CL_VHunt_2
neutral · AI labelView post →So widespread semi-automated game cloning does, I think, add drag to this whole process. Previously it'd be "seeing a lot about this 'Vampire Fuckmansion' game, what's that about". Now someone might see Vampire Fuckmansion, then Vampire Sexhouse, then Vampire Dickpartment, etc, muddling everything.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok I promise this is the last of the vampires (for now). More work on the Upyr from our game New World. You can see me thinking through the lore in the second image. These were all from 2022 or 23, I forget. #vampire #horror #creaturedesign #conceptart #gameart
neutral · AI labelView post →1). Some fucked up houseruled hybrid of WoD and Rifts made by a friend's dirtbag older brother 2). Feng Shui, the Daedalus version with that one cover 3). Shadowrun 2e 4). The AD&D "black box" board game thing 5). Actual for real Vampire the Masquerade 1e, also run by a dirtbag
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