Choice of the Vampire
September 27, 2024
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Choose from over a dozen wildly different human backgrounds in Volume One, "Battle of New Orleans," set in 1815 antebellum Louisiana. You can be a Choctaw interpreter, a French landowner, a Free Person of Color, an ordained priest, an Irish laborer, a Yankee entrepreneur, and many more. You'll also get to choose your "maker," the vampire who turned you, from one of six different vampires, each with their own unique background.
Your choice of background affects the entire rest of the game, as you live through a hundred years of American history. Each background engages differently with the Civil War, Reconstruction, the liberation of Haiti, the Exodusters, Cuba, lynchings, and vodou. Your vampire may or may not be literate, may or may not speak English, French, German, Latin, Spanish, or Choctaw.
These options combine to make "Choice of the Vampire" one of the most replayable interactive novels in the world. Will you decide to kill your maker in the first five minutes of the game, or follow in your maker's footsteps for decades? Or will you flee New Orleans entirely, playing an alternate version of Volume One in the nearby village of St. Charles?
Volume Two, "Siege of Vicksburg," continues into the Civil War, at the site of one of the war's most grueling and decisive battles. When a strange vampire seeks to disrupt the Confederate defenses, will you help him, hinder him, or consume him? In Volume Three, "The Fall of Memphis" (available as an in-app purchase) you find yourself in Memphis, as ex-Confederates loot the public coffers and dismantle the advances of Reconstruction. In Volume Four, "St. Louis, Unreal City," explore the 1904 World's Fair, which promises to be the party of the century.
As your character concludes their first century of unlife, they must navigate the waters of industrialization and urbanization. The excesses of capital and rapid industrialization is producing a new class of educated, militant workers who are ready and willing to stand up to the nation's elite. Meanwhile, the vestiges of the Confederacy systematically dismantle Reconstruction, while simultaneously pitting European immigrants against the Chinese and the formerly enslaved. And yet, national figures such as JP Morgan and Jay Gould are forcing their will upon St. Louis all the way from New York.
Still, the vampires of the Society must adapt and thrive, caught between centuries of experience and the rapidly changing world around them—a world that would destroy them utterly if they were to be revealed. When one of their number permanently gives into their Beast and begins hunting other vampires, the Society of North America are thrust into disarray, and you must decide what is worth dying for.
• Play as male or female; gay, straight, or pan; cis or trans.
• Exploit the domains of humanity: become a patron of the arts, an advocate of the temperance movement, an underworld boss, an investor in industry, or a visionary of the world of the unseen.
• Choose your prey: gamblers, artists, financiers, or workers. Hold your head up high and feed only from animals—or drink the heartsblood of your fellow vampires with gusto.
• Survive the machinations of your fellow vampires, the malice of the mortals you have wronged, and the hunters who want to see your kind destroyed.
• Unravel the mysteries of vampirekind.
• Meet famous historical figures—and drink their blood.
Can the American Republic satiate you, or will you drain it dry?
Latest Version
3.1.7
September 27, 2024
Choice of Games LLC
Role Playing
Android
612,270
Free
com.choiceofgames.vampire
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User Reviews
Lilac Ghost
2 years ago
Every once and a while, for no observable reason. My character resets. I was in the beginning of chapter 3 when I was pulled all the way back to the beginning asking if I wanted to buy the full version or free version. I've started 3 different characters and they haven't even left the 2 chapter before they get reset. It's the most annoying and disheartening thing.
Demon Man
4 months ago
I enjoyed the game and have done multiple runs trying out new stuff. Would make 5 stars if I had more ways to use my transformation powers ^^'
A Google user
5 years ago
This is a beautifully written work of art and has been a long-time favorite CYOA of mine. The context is compelling and accurate, the choices are impactful and inspiring, and your character is wholly your own. You may play through, like it a lot, and decide to play through again. If you do, you may choose things you didn't before. As a result, you may end up with a different story. Whatever the case, this is sure to be a blast to read through and play.
A Google user
4 years ago
A compelling first installment, although I saw no indication that ONLY the first installment was free until I reached the end. My only criticisms are that your starting stats have an element of randomness outside your control, and that several significant "choices" will have the same result regardless of the choices you make.
N S
3 years ago
This is... An okay game? The concept was thrilling and the author is clearly talented but man was this whole thing an ordeal. The amount of ridiculously wordy purple prose you have to slog through just for a character to explain one scene is mind-numbing. And half the time I didn't even feel like a vampire, I felt like I was playing Capitol Hill Politics Simulator 2.0. VERY heavy handed on exposition and infodumping, I felt my eyes crossing 75% of the time trying to wade through this.
K.E.J. van der Stel
3 years ago
I've played this game several times now (through the choice of games app) and it's nearly impossible to get any stat even as high as 4. This means I always die in book 4 one way or another. There are only like 3 times you get to choose to raise anything and I never found more than 2 or so options to raise anything through normal story choices. Online I see people talking of stats as high as 6, 8, and even once 13. Needs a guide, so you can even know enough to see if maybe this stuff is a bug.
Rafa G
3 years ago
Fun read, hope to see more. At times it reads more like a history book thou, making it drawn out and boring(pages of nothing to do with characters) the whole living in the wilderness part used to be after escaping the second city if thats what you chose now its near the start making you choose between going to new Orleans or the wilderness. It made more sense the other way. Also if you choose to skip 1st city and go live in wild there are still traces of you having spent time in the 1st city...
Aza Guilli
1 year ago
I've recently came back to this game, but I won't be playing after chapter 3. The ads are horrible and sometimes double stack, so you have to wait and click six times to get rid of them. The game itself it good, but not good enough for the amount of money you need to leave to make your experience bearable.
Ophelie Staebel
3 years ago
It can be a difficult read at times as it's very heavy with historical content and political machinations. As you advance through the story, you start to feel a bit dull at all these events passing you by, but I found it serves well to translate the numbness an ageless vampire might feel toward time. If you're looking for a romantic, fanciful story this might not be for you, but if you want to reflect on immortality in a very realistic context, it's worth it. It has good replayability too.
Codex7777
3 years ago
It"s an enjoyable read and has great potential. Unfortunately, your path becomes somewhat linear, after the first chapter. The choices you make there determining your story path. You can make some minor deviations but that's it. You do get a couple more chances, to add 1 star point. Some advice, if you can't get a stat to at least 2, don't bother with it at all. For a stat to be consistently reliable, you'll need to get it to at least 3. Despite all this, it's still a good read/game.
Obama Obama
4 years ago
I love this game, it is one of the best ever published by choice of games llc imo. My immersion is completely broke, however, by the fact that when you kill your dominus, events still happen in which they are present but characters will occasionally remark about them being dead, nonetheless. It makes no sense and basically remders a whole route broken.
A Google user
5 years ago
it's pretty fun, with a decent amount of choices, but it's annoying that there are several pages with long blocks of text between choices. and most of those choices are very minor things, and they appear less and and less as the story goes on, which takes away most of what makes these games enjoyable
money
3 years ago
I like that it has so much real history written. However, if feels more like I'm reading a history book rather than playing a game most of the time. Also it's pretty damn expensive to have to pay over 6 dollars for every volume in my opinion. I'm a bit disappointed because I did really like the characters. But the fact that it's so expensive, feels like I'm reading a giant history book and even with the first purchase the ads don't go off. Yeah, that's a deal breaker. Gonna miss Dido.
Hallie Livengood
2 years ago
The first 2 'books' are okay at best, it sets up interesting characters and universe but I regret purchasing the other books. it becomes a long textbook with sprinkles of vampire. 90% of the choices are repetitive and with most of them being politics. There's barely romance or anything personal to keep you immersed in your character besides one-off moments that don't seem to affect the story. Also purchasing the other books won't remove ads, that's a seperate 5.99 charge which is ridiculous.
A Google user
5 years ago
I LOVE this game! Text based RPGs are the best, and I think this is the cream of the crop! I love how you get to choose so many things - the autonomy is awesome (even if RPGs do have that sense of autonomy)! I just wish that part 3 (the part about St Louis) would come out sooner! But the storyline is so engaging, and I just could play this for hours upon hours! Please keep doing awesome things & developing AWESOME games! <3
Carol L
3 years ago
The first two books are great! It feels personal, like you're actually building a character. On the free version, the ad breaks are pretty well spaced out. Memphis is wayy less interesting. Too much info on single pages. I get that it's supposed to show the passage of time, and the changes the country is going through but.. it takes you so far away from the game. I feel like I'm reading a dry history textbook. The ad breaks are ridiculous.
A Google user
5 years ago
I haven't finished the demo and at this point I probably won't, because the options that are greyed out frequently don't make sense, and loving the writing just makes this more frustrating. I understand the goal, but there've been several instances of the option that obviously is the most in-character being greyed out, which breaks my immersion. A few times I've actually started a new game, trying to make the sort of character that would definitely respond that way, but it's still not an option.
Cory's Corgis
7 months ago
I bought the full game awhile ago. I came back and saw that even though i bought the full game, I had to spend another 5.99 if I didn't want ads. Annoying, but whatever. The problem is that there's so many. You wait 5 minutes to get an ad, which leads to more annoyance. I legit got an ad, made a choice, then got another ad. They dont seem to be separated by chapters. they appear whenever. It's a good game but the ads are getting weird.
A Google user
5 years ago
So much potential. The large number of stats mean the story does feel different based on your choices despite there being only a single plot line. Have played through it several times and each time my chara ter felt like a different person. I would have given it 5 stars, but it was abandoned after 1 sequel, so even if you get the sequel, you are stuck without a good ending.
Ari Marrott
3 years ago
Editing my review years later, I'm still in love with this game. It brings back a lot of memories, and Is still one of my favorite games to this day. Playing, you have a lot of choices that determine how you progress. It made me feel like it was my story, and I even got emotional here and there. However, it seems everytime I open the app, it results in some error, which is disappointing. Reinstalled the app and everything.
