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Nighthawks, a text-based vampire RPG from The Curiosity Engine and publisher Wadjet Eye, was released for Windows on September 22. PC Gamer's review describes it as a narrative-heavy role-playing game focused more on social choices and investigation than combat.
A City Built Around Vampires
The game takes place in Cradlebridge, presented as the world's first integrated city for humans and vampires. Vampires are public, regulated and politically organized, with identification cards and access to a clinic supplying diluted blood. The opening storyline follows an investigation into a traitor before expanding into the city's broader integration project.
Choices Shape the Character
Players create a vampire by selecting a background, sire and supernatural power, then develop traits through repeated actions. Travel, conversations, companions and quests can all affect abilities or relationships. PC Gamer's review highlights the range of side stories, which move between horror, comedy and drama while giving the setting more depth than the central investigation alone.
A Deliberately Wordy RPG
Nighthawks uses map-based travel and choice-driven encounters in the style of Fallen London or Citizen Sleeper. Combat is comparatively simple, although some encounters add multiple skill checks and decisions about risk or recovery. The review says the game includes blood and predator meters, while its time system advances toward sunrise and larger deadlines. Those limits sometimes feel loose, and manually passing days to reach later events can become tedious.
Availability And Caveats
PC Gamer reviewed Nighthawks on Windows 11 and found that its substantial amount of reading is likely to determine whether it appeals to a player. The game has no multiplayer mode, Steam Deck support was listed as unknown, and its price was marked TBA in the supplied material. The review also notes that the story treats vampirism as both an attractive fantasy and a source of disturbing consequences.
Source: Nighthawks review
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