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2023 Ranked #4,658

Vampire: The Masquerade – Chapters

A story-driven roleplaying board game where vampires investigate, negotiate, and fight through a branching campaign shaped by character choices. Decisions can permanently open or close scenarios, while experience changes each character’s capabilities and the course of later events.

Adventure Card Game Grid Movement Push Your Luck

Players

1-4

Play time

30-60 min

Age

18+

Complexity

3.07/5

Rating

7.65

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Vampire: The Masquerade – Chapters takes place in Montreal, after the appearance of the Second Inquisition and the fall of the Sabbat.

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Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Chapters takes place in Montreal, after the appearance of the Second Inquisition and the fall of the Sabbat. Designed around three pillars — story, strategy and roleplaying — the game merge the best elements of RPGs and board games in a totally new way. Players decisions will shape the adventure in a strong and mature storytelling. Play up to 4 players. Or solo. No game master required! Story-driven: The campaign will hold a large number of scenarios. The story is made to be immersive, frightening and keep players on the edge of their seats. Strategy: Depending on players’ approaches and decisions, some scenarios will unlock or get locked forever. Player's decisions will matter and affect almost every aspect of the game. Roleplaying board game: Players have the agency to make decisions based on their character choices. They will create their characters and improve it over time with experience points. Players will be immersed into advanced investigations, a multi-choice dialogue system, and powerful fighting strategies. Players choose to play as one of the main clans of Kindred (Brujah, Toreador, Gangrel, Ventrue, Tremere, Malkavian, Nosferatu, Pariah) and encounter many types of characters and enemies. The game is composed of several sealed scenarios to unlock, highly detailed tiles, cards, dice, at least 10 miniatures (one for each playable character), and surprises! —description from the publisher

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Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
1–4
Play time
30–60 min
Age
18+
Complexity
3.1/5
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Credits

Designers

2
Thomas Filippi Gary Paitre

Artists

4
Krzysztof Bieniawski Dominik Mayer Erling Saevarsson Marc Simonetti

Publishers

1
FLYOS

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