Vampire — Parliament of Knives

Unlike CONY and even Night Road, this choose your own adventure novel really does let you choose. The others steer toward pretty much the same ending, making your choices largely irrelevant other than some minor flavor elements. PoK is not that. A complex plot has been written with multiple different endings that are really determined by your choices. These are not minor flavor differences, but vastly different outcomes depending on who you ally with and which faction you ally with. I’m on my 4th playthrough after getting three VERY different endings to the story that was driven by my choices. If I had any detraction, it would just be not to expect fully VtM character development. They have a similar but much simplified method, likely to avoid having too much customization to manage, but by your choices you really do get to customize your character by what you choose. Looking forward to playing through it as each of the playable clans and making different alliance and faction choices to see how many different endings I can uncover. Very well done!

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!!

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.