The feeling of a small town is pretty well realized and has that appropriately King-ian vibe of knowing pretty much everyone in town. There's the creepy woman who has moved into the town's local haunted mansion, the rebellious gang of Thin-Bloods, and the gathering of your weird little army of people who just want to protect the town. Which is to say that its creators have taken only from the best and the game benefits strongly from these homages. Out for Blood draws inspiration from both LOST BOYS, FRIGHT NIGHT, and SALEM'S LOT with more than a few references to all three. You can be a vampire hunter, vampire wannabe, or someone who has the idea that everyone should just try to get along (no matter how ridiculous this attitude is in the World of Darkness). I have to say that the game's freedom and adjustability in everything from backgrounds to attitude is its biggest selling point. My second playthrough had me playing a cynical bisexual nonbinary Punk girl with a desperate desire to become a vampire herself. Part of the fun is the fact that you can be a variety of other kinds of people with different attitudes, orientations, skills, and backgrounds. He was a weird hippie and constantly betraying various people because he was a nice guy rather than the opposite. Bizarrely, despite my having no intention of doing so, he also somehow ended up sleeping with half the town's singles. I ended up playing the kind-hearted cis straight Hispanic Angel Flores who was a occultist, faithful to the spirits, and completely inept in combat.
This is the primary benefit of text as it costs nothing to write alternative responses to events. The sheer variety of determinant content is a sharp change from AAA publishing where almost everything leads to the exact same result. There's something creepy going on in the town and it's not a spoiler to say it's vampires. You play the role of an ordinary Muggle in the World of Darkness who returns to his (or her) hometown of Jericho Heights after his grandfather has passed away.
Note, I say Hunter's Hunted and not Hunter: The Reckoning. So, what is the game like? Well, to clarify, I think it's not actually a Vampire: The Masquerade game but a Hunter's Hunted one and a really good one.
Amusingly, I managed to get sent a review copy right as I was about to buy it and instead bought my best friend and co-author a copy. I generally prefer visual novels but was willing to make an exception due to the nature of the text. I really enjoyed NIGHT ROAD and felt it was an exceptionally well-written game that managed to capture the majority of things I liked about the setting. OUT FOR BLOOD is the second Choice of Games text-based adventure for Vampire: The Masquerade.
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