Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York

Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York

Skip · RPG · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 23, under the fair line, at $2.99.

Length
4.2h 14.8h to 100%
Value
$0.71/hr
Reviews
67% of 376 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.

Full price

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Today

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Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

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

Raising the score
Value$0.71/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $4.76/hr
Engagement41% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Reviews67% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds3 of 337 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

About the game

Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York is a narrative game set in the World of Darkness Universe. Play as one of the members of the Vampire Clans in a shifting political landscape between the Camarilla and the Anarchs while trying your best to survive.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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

The value story

It has been discounted 24 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $2.99 at 85 percent off matches the lowest price in the record.

It is pricier than 84 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Stygian: Reign of the Old Ones ($19.99, scores 17).

More about Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York

Steam's global achievement data puts 41 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. 3 of the 337 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026.

4.2 hours to finish it, 15 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.

Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 4.2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.

The drop-off

57% start to 41% 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

Kali is not a great MC but the 2nd playthrough was a bit more interesting. As a whole, Shadows of New York was definitely better, but this one still wasn't horrible or anything.
clownRecommendedafter 7.8h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
In the old era of buttons on the phones, landline calls and vhs glory, people used to role-play face to face, with gatherings, especially when it comes to Vampire: The Masquerade, which is even one year older than me myself. Game, that required tons of books, dices and mindset creativity, has evolved through passages of time, technology changes and audience, to the point - where we are welcomed by more digital...
NecromortiRecommendedafter 38hAug 2026Read on Steam
"Knock it off, will ya?" said the very believable 20 year old neonate vampire protagonist.. ".. I'm actually on the internets gramps, I don't read James Joyce's 'Ulysses' like you do" I halted myself for a second in regret as I uttered those words. Like in a Ally McBeal episode from 1997, I knew my riz was going bad fast. This was clearly not the time to circle the wagons. I didn't want to come off as another random...
ApexNot recommendedafter 3.9hAug 2026Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York scores 23/100 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/2658720/vampire-the-masquerade-reckoning-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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

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Details

DeveloperDraw Distance
PublisherDear Villagers
GenreRPG
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements24