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I became interested in this genre after watching a youtuber cover a few FMV adventure games inspired by Vampire: The Masquerade. A google search turned up no results so I wanted to ask the community here for recommendations.

I'm looking for any fun or interesting retro games in this style, the more vampires wandering city blocks the better.

Also as a side question I would love to know any tools you use for game discovery - google just turns up pages of auto generated "50 games like" lists.

Wikipedia article on Urban Fantasy for those unfamiliar

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[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Varyag@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While not necessarily retro, I'd add that the modernly available Shadowrun games are VERY good, although they're more cyberpunk fantasy than reaaaaally urban fantasy.

[–] somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I guess urban fantasy is just whenever my dnd group wanders in to a town then. Hard to replicate in a game except maybe baldurs gate. There is probably a vampire mod.

[–] louveredvents@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

This was the first thing I thought of as well. Before shadowrun, it had never even occurred to me that rpgs didn't have to be a high fantasy, medieval setting.

[–] treed@lemmy.zenithia.net 3 points 1 year ago

There’s also a Genesis one which is very different in play style. I remember it being a lot more open but requiring you to lead yourself a lot more. I prefer SNES but they’re probably both worth a look.

Also the Yahama sound chip in a Cyberpunk game was a great match.