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Vampire The Masquerade Oaths and Ashes brings the TTRPG’s best setting to life, and it’s out now
Vampire: The Masquerade – Oaths and Ashes, a visual novel set in Berlin, is now available on Steam. Developed by Polish indie studio Revive the Spark, it puts players amid the city’s struggle between the Camarilla and the Anarchs.
Players follow either Alice, a Camarilla Ventrue, or Lenz, a Thinblood, as their choices reshape Berlin’s political balance. The game also adapts tabletop role-playing mechanics, including Thinblood Alchemy for Lenz, and depicts shifting alliances and district control on a changing city map.
In short
- Oaths and Ashes is out now on Steam.
- Play as a Ventrue or a Thinblood in Berlin.
- Choices can shift the city’s political control.
Explained simply
Vampire: The Masquerade is a role-playing setting in which vampires live alongside humans while keeping their existence secret. Its stories often focus on rival groups, political manoeuvring and the choices vampires make to survive.
The Camarilla is a traditional vampire organisation, while the Anarchs challenge its authority. In Berlin, the story centres on that conflict and follows either Alice, a Ventrue aligned with the Camarilla, or Lenz, a vampire with limited powers known as a Thinblood. Their decisions affect alliances and control of the city’s districts.
The game draws on a tabletop role-playing game, where players create characters and shape a shared story through choices. Its use of character-specific abilities, including Thinblood Alchemy, brings some of those rules into a visual novel format.