Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong

Released May 2023

Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.

64% positive · 767 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong launched on May 30, 2023 as a complete narrative RPG. All five DLC items — an alternate outfits pack, the Victoria Ash character DLC, an artifacts pack, the official artbook, and the soundtrack — were released at launch or within the first week (the soundtrack arrived on June 6, 2023). No DLC has been announced or listed as unreleased since then. The game has received no major content updates, feature patches, or bug fix posts in the scanned news history. The two most recent news posts on the game's Steam page (April 10, 2026 and May 13, 2026) are announcements for entirely separate World of Darkness games — Hunter: The Reckoning – Deathwish and Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Rageborn — published by Nacon. These posts use the Swansong Steam news feed as a promotional channel for related games in the same universe, but contain no communication about Swansong itself. Big Bad Wolf has made no statements about future updates, additional story content, or ongoing development for Swansong. The game shipped as a self-contained narrative experience and all announced content has been delivered. It is a complete product.
Evidence
Official soundtrack released one week after launch — the final piece of listed DLC content
dlc listing · Jun 6, 2023 source content shipped
medium
Alternate Outfits Pack released at launch
dlc listing · May 30, 2023 source content shipped
medium

Content

5 of 5 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Nacon
Achievements
31
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Based on the cult role-playing game and developed by specialists in the genre, Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong is a narrative RPG in which your every choice determines the fate of the three main characters and of the Boston Camarilla.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF DARKNESS
What if vampires were real? What if these bloodthirsty predators lived hidden among us in complex societies and had been hatching conspiracies for thousands of years? And what if you became one of them?
In Vampire: The Masquerade, you play as these alluring monsters in a sophisticated world where the lines between the real and supernatural are always blurred.

A HEART-POUNDING THRILLER
Hazel Iversen, the Swan, is the new Prince of the Boston Camarilla. An iron hand in a velvet glove, she intends to assert her power and respect the Masquerade, the vampiric law designed to ensure humans never learn of the existence of these creatures of the night. But nothing works as planned. With rumours of plots, murders and power struggles, you must work in the shadows to protect your Sect in a pulsating investigation that plunges Boston into chaos.

PLAY AS 3 ORIGINAL VAMPIRES
Play as 3 vampires who are over a hundred years old. Progress in the game through their intertwined destinies, deal with their different points of view and use their character sheets to try to separate the truth from the lies. Each character has their own vampiric abilities and disciplines that you can upgrade individually to suit your preferred approach. Will you choose intimidation, seduction or stealth? It's your decision, as long as you can sate your Hunger for blood.

GAMEPLAY WITH CONSEQUENCES
With its unique gameplay, Swansong puts emphasis on the consequences of your actions in both the investigation and your social interactions with other characters.
Analyse each situation carefully because your decisions can have huge consequences on your heroes' lives and the fate of the Boston Camarilla.
Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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