Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Released Sep 2020
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
90% positive · 741 reviews
Done
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Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Steam $11.99
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Evaluation
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road launched on September 24, 2020 as a complete 650,000-word interactive fiction game. Shortly after launch, the first DLC — Usurpers and Outcasts — shipped on September 26, 2020, unlocking two additional playable clans. The second and larger DLC, Secrets and Shadows, released on March 25, 2021, adding five new playable clans, new Disciplines, and a new mission. Both DLC entries are now released with no unreleased DLC remaining on the store. Following the Secrets and Shadows launch, developer communications consisted entirely of bug fix patches through May 13, 2021, with no further posts of any kind after that date. No roadmaps, future content announcements, or additional DLC have been communicated since. The developer has not announced any further content, and the post-launch update activity ceased entirely as of May 13, 2021. The game appears to have been delivered as a complete package with its two DLC expansions.
Evidence
Secrets and Shadows DLC launched, adding five new playable clans, a new Discipline, variant powers, and a new mission
Both DLC entries are now released; no unreleased DLC remains on the store listing
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Media
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Achievements
30
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
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Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player
About this game
The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun?
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road is a 650,000-word interactive horror novel by Kyle Marquis, based on Vampire: The Masquerade and set in the World of Darkness shared story universe. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. It won the "Best Game" award in the 2020 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction.
It’s a new Dark Age for the dead. When the Second Inquisition's vampire hunters hacked phone lines and computer networks to expose and destroy vampires all over the world, the elders turned to undead couriers like you. For ten years, you’ve raced across the desert between cities, delivering vital information and supplies. But when an old friend reappears with a plan to disrupt the blood trade across the American Southwest, everything you’ve built starts crashing down.
Outrun the Competition. Drive, hide, or fight back! Unleash the powers of your blood in ancient Disciplines to change form, vanish from sight, or dominate the minds of your enemies. Employ blood magic, inhuman strength, and the creatures of the night to escape destruction—or just run your enemies off the road and keep driving.
Deliver or Die. All secrets have an expiration date—and so do you. Race across the desert to deliver secrets, promises, and threats. Do whatever it takes to drop off your parcel. But when the job is done, will you stick around to exploit the situation?
Run Down Your Prey. Only blood can sate the Hunger. Charm, seduce, or seize what you need, but don’t let anyone know what you are. If you break the Masquerade, your fellow vampires will destroy you for your indiscretions, assuming the Second Inquisition doesn't find you first.
Death is a hard road. You drive it every night.
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road is a 650,000-word interactive horror novel by Kyle Marquis, based on Vampire: The Masquerade and set in the World of Darkness shared story universe. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. It won the "Best Game" award in the 2020 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction.
It’s a new Dark Age for the dead. When the Second Inquisition's vampire hunters hacked phone lines and computer networks to expose and destroy vampires all over the world, the elders turned to undead couriers like you. For ten years, you’ve raced across the desert between cities, delivering vital information and supplies. But when an old friend reappears with a plan to disrupt the blood trade across the American Southwest, everything you’ve built starts crashing down.
Outrun the Competition. Drive, hide, or fight back! Unleash the powers of your blood in ancient Disciplines to change form, vanish from sight, or dominate the minds of your enemies. Employ blood magic, inhuman strength, and the creatures of the night to escape destruction—or just run your enemies off the road and keep driving.
Deliver or Die. All secrets have an expiration date—and so do you. Race across the desert to deliver secrets, promises, and threats. Do whatever it takes to drop off your parcel. But when the job is done, will you stick around to exploit the situation?
Run Down Your Prey. Only blood can sate the Hunger. Charm, seduce, or seize what you need, but don’t let anyone know what you are. If you break the Masquerade, your fellow vampires will destroy you for your indiscretions, assuming the Second Inquisition doesn't find you first.
- Winner of the 2020 XYZZY Awards for interactive fiction (Best Game)
- Play as male, female, or nonbinary; gay, straight, or bi.
- Hunt the alleys and back roads of the American Southwest to stave off hunger and resist the frenzied call of the Beast.
- Join the Camarilla—the immortal society of the vampire elite—or break its hold on the border states.
- Confront the horrors of your immortal existence in illegal hospitals, disease-ridden prison camps, and forgotten research facilities littered with failed experiments.
- Modify your car for speed, durability, or smuggling, but remember—wherever you're going, you have to get there by dawn!
- Unlock the ability to play as Tremere or Caitiff with the Usurpers and Outcasts DLC.
Death is a hard road. You drive it every night.
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Last evaluated Jun 18, 2026
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