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Choice of the Vampire
Choice of Games · Published by Choice of Games · Official site ↗
Content notice: This game is about vampires. Amoral, blood-sucking, exploitative, manipulative, murdering, self-destructive vampires. What's more, it's about the history of the United States and all the horrors that entails.
Mixed — 55% positive (44 reviews) · 80 achievements
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Slake your thirst, without becoming a Beast! Blessed with the blood-soaked gift of immortality, will you tend the flock of humanity—or twist it to your whims? When a brash young country butts heads with a brash young vampire, who will come out ahead?
DJCTQ 162 DLC available ↗
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Adventure, Indie, RPG · 2018 · More under £5 games
Embark on a journey as a newly immortal vampire, making tough decisions that affect both your fate and those around you. Will you protect or manipulate? Choice of Games invites you to explore this richly detailed indie RPG.
About this game
Slake your thirst, without becoming a monster! Blessed with the blood-soaked gift of immortality, will you tend the flock of humanity—or twist it to your whims? When a brash young country butts heads with a brash young vampire, who will come out ahead?
Choice of the Vampire is an epic, four-volume, 900,000-word interactive novel, by Jason Stevan Hill. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Begin your vampiric journey in Volume One, "Battle of New Orleans," set in antebellum Louisiana, where your reputation is only as good as your skill with a sword or dueling pistol. 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.
Can the American Republic satiate you, or will you drain it dry?
Choice of the Vampire is an epic, four-volume, 900,000-word interactive novel, by Jason Stevan Hill. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Begin your vampiric journey in Volume One, "Battle of New Orleans," set in antebellum Louisiana, where your reputation is only as good as your skill with a sword or dueling pistol. 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?
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
Minimum:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7
Recommended
Recommended:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
English
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
May 2024 Update
Over 50k words of more content across the four volumes. Extensive bugfixes and continuity errors throughout. More ways to engage with the Beast of St. Louis. New scenes and plotlines, including the World's Fair Handicap. More developed romances with the Clotho of Memphis and Annie Jones of St. Louis.Read full article on Community Announcements (jasonstevanhill)AnnouncementsOfficial
Announcing "St. Louis, Unreal City"
Out now! Choice of the Vampire Volume Four, St. Louis: Unreal City We have some exciting and complicated news for you about Choice of the Vampire, one of the earliest in our popular "Choice of Games" line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games. First, we're proud to announce that Volume Four, St. Louis: Unreal City, is now available for purchase everywhere. With the turning of the century, St. Louis sits at the navel of the United States. The elite of the city celebrate by throwing the party of all parties—the 1904 World’s Fair. Every vampire who is any vampire will be there! Second, we're announcing that we're transforming Choice of the Vampire from a series of games, distributed as separate apps, into a single game with separate volumes available as in-app purchases. (This is the complicated part; please bear with us!) Finally, we're announcing that all of the volumes of Choice of the Vampire are 30% off until November 5th! With the addition of Volume Four, Choice of the Vampire is now over 850,000 words long, and we can't wait to let you sink your teeth into it. We're merging Choice of the Vampire into a single app We originally made Choice of the Vampire 2: The Fall of Memphis available as a separate app. That was unwise of us, for several reasons: Memphis was actually the third volume of "Choice of the Vampire," so calling it "Vampire 2" was confusing. Having a separate app introduced an artificial transition between Vicksburg and Memphis. You had to save your game, download a new app, and restore your game in the new app to continue playing. As we've worked on Choice of the Vampire, we've added a lot of content to earlier volumes as well. Old saved games from 2013 would be inconsistent with the new content in New Orleans and Vicksburg. There are new choices to be made in New Orleans that have a significant impact on your experience in Memphis; there's no good way to restore old saved games into the new version of the game. The Fall of Memphis is now avai...Read full article on Community Announcements (choiceofgames)
