Franchise file / Mark Rein-Hagen, White Wolf
Vampire: The Masquerade
Politics, blood and bad nights
Mark Rein-Hagen's 1991 tabletop RPG came to games in 2000 with Redemption. Its vampire clans and secret politics now span RPGs, visual novels, a battle royale and VR.
- 2000
- First game
- 3
- Series
- Mark Rein-Hagen, White Wolf
- Creator
One world. Many eras.
Choose your chapter
The first RPGs. Activision published the opening pair: Nihilistic's Redemption, then Troika's Bloodlines, a modern-nights RPG built around clan choice.
Start with Vampire: The Masquerade - BloodlinesYour next late night
The essentials
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Troika Games2004
Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong
Big Bad Wolf2022
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York
Draw Distance2019
Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York
Draw Distance2020
Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York
Draw Distance2024
Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption
Nihilistic Software2000
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
The Chinese Room2025
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt
Sharkmob2021
Vampire: The Masquerade - Justice
Fast Travel Games2023
Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road
Choice of Games2020
Vampire: The Masquerade - Out for Blood
Choice of Games2021
Vampire: The Masquerade - Sins of the Sires
Choice of Games2022
Chapters
Series (3)
Vampire: The MasqueradeVideo games set in White Wolf's World of Darkness, where vampire clans scheme in the shadows and every choice tests what is left of your humanity.Vampire: The Masquerade - New YorkDraw Distance's Vampire: The Masquerade interactive fiction set in New York: Coteries (2019), Shadows (2020) and Reckoning (2024).Vampire: The Masquerade – BloodlinesTroika Games' 2004 vampire RPG Bloodlines and its sequel Bloodlines 2 (2025), set in the World of Darkness tabletop setting.
A legacy worth revisiting
Keep the secret. Feed anyway.
Every game here turns on the Masquerade, the law that hides vampires from humans, and the clans scheming around it. Troika's Bloodlines earned a lasting cult following, while the New York stories, Swansong and Bloodhunt each come at the setting from a sharply different angle.
- 2000 to 2004
- The first RPGs
- 2019 to 2025
- The revival
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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