New Info on Life Is Strange Developer’s New Game ‘Vampyr’ Revealed

While we’ve known that Life is unusual and Remember Me developer Dontnod have been working on a project called Vampyr since January earlier this year, not much was known about the game until now.

England was recovering from the aftermath of the World War I, and the Spanish Flu was making its way through London’s winding alleys. The streets were rife with death and crime. Superstition was becoming less socially relevant, but it was still in the streets, folklore, and politics of London, so science was on the rise, but the world was still a dark, scary place. The setting of the game is a war-torn London and the protagonist is a vampire struggling to live in it.

“Emerging from the chaos, a tormented figure awakes; as the player, it is you who determines how to harness your new powers, by specializing in deadly, versatile RPG skill-trees that change the way you play”, writes Dontnod in an email press release.

When asked the gameplay elements of Vampyr, Moreau said, “Vampyr is an action RPG with tight, visceral combat mechanics, exploration, and investigation”. Stay tuned for our coverage of the game and check out the concept teaser below. Moreau hints that the medical condition central to Vampyr’s storyline is more than it initially seems, and suggests that a shadowy organization may be behind London’s outbreak of vampirism. One such outcome stemming from the player’s ability to potentially target and harm innocent civilians, shaping the type of character the protagonist becomes and the enemies he will then face in the future.

It was also mentioned that there was an apparent lack of Vampire-themed video games and was relatively “underexplored”. You’ll be able to feed off anyone in the world, but there’ll often be immediate or long-term consequences to your actions. Launching in 2017, Vampyr will be releasing on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC. Over on the European PlayStation Blog the studio promises that moral quandries are the game’s specialty and being a creature of the night isn’t without effect in their 1918 London. “You can not escape that you are a vampire”, Moreau writes.