Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York
Skip · Short indie · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $12.99.
- Length
- 4.8h
- Value
- $2.71/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 1 GB VRAM OpenGL 2.1+, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Your old life is dead and buried. You have no afterlife to look forward to, and your vampiric unlife is about to fall apart unless you solve an unsolvable crime. Welcome to New York City... and welcome to the Lasombra clan, where failure is not an option.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.29, set in October 2024. 60 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 34 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 92 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Life is Strange: Before the Storm ($16.99, scores 57) and Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58) both outscore it.
Steam's global achievement data puts 27 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 1 of the 567 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 42 percent of the 132 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
At 4.8 hours it is a handheld-sized game, and Valve rates it Deck Verified.
The drop-off
56% start to 27% finishSteam 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
The best VN in the trilogy. Julia is a very likeable protagonist, and the writing and soundtrack are both excellent. I'd recommend playing Coteries of New York first for some additional context, but it's not required to enjoy this one.
I think Shadows of New York is a really big improvement on a lot of what Coteries was trying to do - not only by having a more cohesive narrative (while still giving you some choice here and there so on replay it's not all the same) and a significantly stronger, established main character in Julia, but by also providing its own distinct tone separate from Coteries . Coteries of New York is a very bleak, cynical game...
Coteries of New York was bad, but not dismal. This one, though... describing it as a "game" is beyond any accuracy claim. This is a extremely basic visual novel with a bare minimum of interaction which is always of no consequence for the outcome of the story. Still worse, the writing is not only stereotypical and clumsy: it is uninteresting. I bought this on a 90% sale and still feel as being scammed. I could have...
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Cite this score
Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York scores 37/100 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/1279630/vampire-the-masquerade-shadows-of-new-yorkReviews 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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