Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
Skip · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 11, under the fair line, at $19.99.
- Length
- 15.8h 40.9h to 100%
- Value
- $1.27/hr
- Reviews
- 63% of 758 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $1.40 (93% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 44 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 14 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Play as 3 vampires, wield their powers wisely, and strike the right balance between your human and animal side in a heart-pounding story in which your choices will decide the fate of Boston.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, 4 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7790, 4 GB, 23 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 30 discounts in the 3 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 90 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. The Council (free, scores 62) and Vampyr ($39.99, scores 41) both outscore it.
More about Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
This site sampled 492 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 9 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written May 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,866 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 344 have a larger share.
Finishing takes 15.8 hours; clearing it takes 41, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
39% start to 2% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 20 when we last checked, on Oct 7, 16:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Well... it was not easy, yet it is done. Short Verstion? Yes, it's worth playing. But only for World of Darkness fans. To anyone else, the game would seem like a total failure - take it from someone who played it at launch and again four years later. Even for die-hard fans, the game lacks replayability and is riddled with a million flaws... At launch: My initial reaction was, naturally, one of revulsion - too many...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
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I played this game for around 20 hours, and even with detailed reading and taking my time, that's about as far as it goes.If you're looking for action, definitely don't buy this game.The game is heavily focused on story, dialogue, and investigation rather than action. - Downsides - 1. The game's pace is way too slow.Extremely slow. It can literally make you sleepy. 2. Even with the graphics settings on the highest...
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Cite this score
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong scores 11/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1299510/vampire-the-masquerade-swansongReviews 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 Oct 1, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.