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.
Shadowrun (nintendo 1993)
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.
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.
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.
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.