Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York

Skip · Short indie · 2019

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 30, under the fair line, at $19.99.

Length
5.7h
Value
$3.51/hr
Reviews
74% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
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Length
5.7h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
11.3h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$3.51
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$19.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
74%
3,151 reviews, as of Sep 26
Metacritic
70
critic score
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2019

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, ​1 GB VRAM OpenGL 2.1+, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is a narrative experience set in the rich universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions - the Camarilla and the Anarchs - bathed in the night lights of the Big Apple.
Description from the Steam store page.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement35% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$3.51/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews74% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length5.7 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 717 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

The value story

The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in February 2023. 67 discounts in the 7 years on record. They run about 80 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.

It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Little Misfortune ($19.99, scores 59) beats it on value, while it beats Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs ($19.99, scores 20).

Steam's global achievement data puts 35 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 717 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 3 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 47 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 74 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

44% start to 35% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

This game is delightful and cerebral and true enough to the WoD world to be genuinely compelling to those of us who have been here all along.
reno1976Recommendedafter 3.9hAug 2026Read on Steam
I WAS RIVETED. This was a delight. If you have never experienced Vampire the Masquerade, this is required reading. It honestly should be the starting point for anyone intrigued into the world. The drama, the powerplays, the twists, the characters, the choices. It's all excellently done. It'll never reach the pure customization of Bloodlines, and it'll never hit the highs of actually being a kindred in the tabletop...
heychrisfoxRecommendedafter 7.3hJul 2026Read on Steam
I do like the game but one thing ruins everything for me. After 10 hours of playing I do not enjoy to randomly die and ruin all my playthrough by starting from the beggining. This is a visual novel I DO NOT want to read everything alll from the beggining. If I am not allowed to use my vampire powers (which seem to lead to fail) then whats the point of playing as a vampire??
LunarGeceNot recommendedafter 10hJul 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1096410/vampire-the-masquerade-coteries-of-new-york
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Critics vs players+4
Critics
70
Players
74
Critics and players agree on this one.
Metacritic critics · 3,151 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperDraw Distance
PublisherDear Villagers
GenreShort indie
Released2019
Achievements28