8 Games with a fantasy setting like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 that you should try

✓ Same family of narrative adventures: adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, horror tension and punishing difficulty, while skipping deep RPG systems

✓ Both are narrative adventures — sharing adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, horror tension and visual third person, while skipping deep RPG systems

✓ Same family of narrative adventures: adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Stands apart with puzzle design, setting scifi and exploration and discovery, while skipping deep RPG systems

✓ Both are narrative adventures — sharing adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Stands apart with horror tension, survival mechanics and puzzle design, while skipping deep RPG systems

✓ Fits the narrative adventures cluster, with adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Stands apart with melee combat, exploration and discovery and visual third person, while skipping deep RPG systems

✓ Same family of narrative adventures: adventure storytelling, strong narrative focus and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Its own twist: puzzle design, exploration and discovery and visual third person, while skipping deep RPG systems

✓ Nearly identical: adventure storytelling, fantasy world and single-player focus.

≠ Missing: deep RPG systems.

✓ Fits the narrative adventures cluster, with adventure storytelling, fantasy world and single-player focus

≠ Where it differs: brings combat magic, melee combat and ranged combat, while skipping deep RPG systems