10) Vampyr
Platforms: All
Release Date: 2017
From the developers of Life is Strange comes a vampire game set in 1918 London. But don’t roll your eyes. There’s plenty of meat to this corpse of an idea, and an interesting emphasis on story and relationships to boot.
You see, sucking the blood of innocent victims is frowned upon in London, even in 1918, and as the good doctor Stephen Reid you have a reputation to protect. Your day job precludes revealing your appetite for blood, so you’re forced to stalk in the shadows, choosing your prey carefully, then collecting information on them before striking unseen.
Mess it up and you’ll change the course of the story for good; resist your urges altogether, and you’ll be able to finish the game just fine, but you’ll be barred from every levelling up. It’s a fantastic moral question and asks you to choose between goodness and greed.
Vampyr promises small hub-like areas with mini open-worlds to explore, while you can expect RPG action nasties of the night – who deserve to be slain – to elongate the experience. Given the storytelling success of Life is Strange, Vampyr could be a sleeper hit.