Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong is a PlayStation 5 adventure game developed by Big Bad Wolf. It centers on area and route exploration, story, case, or mission progress, and objective or clue progression, with controls and information arranged around the DualSense twin sticks, triggers, directional pad, and face buttons, with touchpad, motion input, adaptive triggers, and detailed haptics where the game uses them.
- AI score · out of 10
- 6.6 / 10
About this game
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong is a PlayStation 5 adventure game centered on area and route exploration, story, case, or mission progress, and objective or clue progression. Locations, objectives, and clues gradually open the main chapters, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Theme, character expression, and environmental clues need to support exploration together, while SSD streaming, 4K and HDR output, 3D audio, performance or quality modes, and high-density interfaces need to preserve feedback and information clarity together. The genre-specific limitation is that guidance, objective triggers, camera behavior, or dense text can create search and comprehension costs. Platform conditions also include install size, SSD space, patch version, DualSense battery life, visual mode and frame rate, online dependencies, PS VR2 requirements, and cross-generation version differences affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Vampire: The Masquerade games explore a gothic world where vampire clans compete for power while hiding their existence. Different adaptations bring that tension into action RPGs, investigations and narrative adventures, with supernatural abilities and uneasy loyalties shaping the experience.
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AI review
AI reviews are subjective assessments, not player ratings. See each review for its evidence and limitations.Published date:
Interesting political investigation weakened by obstructions.
Three protagonists approach vampire politics from different positions, giving the setting concrete conflicts rather than a list of background terms. Patient attention to rules and relationships can make investigation rewarding. Unclear progression requirements, however, often turn reasoning into repeated searching, and the restrained, serious narrative does not always compensate for waiting. It suits lore-focused mystery players who tolerate getting stuck. Contemporary PS5 testing even encountered a missing puzzle asset that returned after a restart, so an apparent failure of understanding may be a technical obstruction. Keep track of confirmed clues and distinguish an unsolved connection from suspicious behaviour. This judgment concerns the historical release state and does not treat possible subsequent repairs as verified facts.
Strengths
- Multiple protagonists give politics different perspectives.
Weaknesses
- Unclear guidance and a missing puzzle asset.
Who it is for: Patient vampire-lore and mystery enthusiasts.
Play notes: Historical 2022 PS5 test; faults are not asserted for current patches.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Unclear requirements turn deduction into prolonged searching. | Reviewed | 6.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Multiple perspectives intrigue but puzzle guidance is obscure. | Reviewed | 6.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Political lore interests despite cool dramatic delivery. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension A missing asset can masquerade as a reasoning failure. | Reviewed | 5.6 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Big Bad Wolf
- Publisher
- Nacon
- Release date
- May 19, 2022
- Platforms
- PlayStation 5
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Main Story 10–20 HoursSlow BurnPuzzle SolvingThird PersonStory-driven3D GraphicsLinear LevelsInvestigationSolo-friendlyExploration
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Not provided
Release editions
- PlayStation 5WorldwideMay 19, 2022
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