Vampyr
Set in 1918 London amidst the deadly Spanish flu epidemic, Vampyr allows players to embody Dr. Jonathan Reid, a recently-turned vampire grappling with his dual identity. Charged with finding a cure for the city's afflicted while navigating his insatiable thirst for blood, players must confront moral dilemmas and navigate treacherous streets filled with hunters and supernatural creatures. Narrative themes include fighting, morality, investigations, and historical figures / occurences.
- Release date: 06-04-2018
- Developer: Don't Nod
- Publisher: Focus Entertainment
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox One
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Animals & Wildlife
Dogs
Beasts
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Beasts are malformed gigantic creatures have a canine appearance and are often mistaken for Werewolves
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Rodents
Rats
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Jonathan can eat rats for blood, but will usually comment on how disgusting it is.
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Wolves
Beasts
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Beasts are malformed gigantic creatures have a canine appearance and are often mistaken for Werewolves
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Crime
Assassination
Depending on choices
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Guns & Shooting
You will be shot at and can use a gun as well
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Revolver (regular, Albert's, Tom's), Lupara, Shotgun (regular, Milton's), Pistol parabellum (regular, Clarence's), Joe's semi-automatic pistol, Pump-action shotgun, Double-Barreled shotgun (regular, Edwina's)
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Kidnapping
Louise Teasdale
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Louise Teasdale is kidnapped by a vampire with a crush on her.
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Misc. Crime
Sale of illegal goods; Weapons
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Sale of illegal goods — Several traders in the game are hospital staff selling illegal goods. Others are gang members or other criminals who sell you weapons and other supplies. Depending on your choices, Dorothy Crane can become this if Jonathan spares her, offering to buy medical supplies and serums to fund her illegal dispensary. There are legitimate traders (like Carolyn Price) in the game, but they are comparatively fewer. Weapons — Stakes (regular, Priwen, Ichabod's, Charlotte's) Knives (Liston, Thoreau's surgical knife, Gwyneth's surgical knife), Dagger (regular, Sabrina's, Cristina's, Giselle's), Truncheon (regular, Charles'), Machete (regular, Louise's), Scythe (regular, Rodney's), Bludgeon (regular, Seymour's), Hacksaw (regular, Rakesh's surgical saw), Barbed Cudgel (regular, Joe's), Hatchet (regular, Archer's, Clay's), Mace (regular, Samuel Connor's), Axe (regular, Booth's), Saber (regular, Newton's), True Dragonbane.
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Murder
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You're required to kill several people to get through the prologue. Throughout the game, you'll have to kill Skal (vampires) and other creatures. You can choose to kill animals and humans as well, but this is avoidable. You will witness other murders, including one committed by Clay Cox. Other murders are discussed, including Whitechapel's Fr. Tobias Whitaker burning people alive to cleanse them or The Docks' Seymour Fishburn being a serial killer.
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Theft
Depending on choices
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You can loot dead bodies for gear and supplies. Often, the useful objects appear near the corpse and not on it. (avoidable) Pembroke Hospital Staff also rob the corpses of unclaimed dead.
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Torture
Depending on choices
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You can torture individuals. The Guard of Priwen often employs torture to get information, including torturing Dr. Swansea.
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Death & Loss
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Death of Parent
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Lady Elizabeth's father William Marshal during the game. Lady Elizabeth can also die (avoidable), which would leave her adoptive daughter Charlotte Ashbury without a parent. Jonathan's mother can die several possible times as well, although this is avoidable. The Docks' Seymour Fishburn's mother cares for an orphan child.
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Death of Sibling
Early on in the game
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At the beginning of the game, your sister Mary is looking for you. Unfortunately, she finds you right after you've turned into a vampire, meaning you attack and supposedly murder her. After a few chapters of gameplay, though, you discover that she is now a fellow vampire and not actually dead... but she also had to dig her way out of her coffin and grave, and is understandably hell-bent on revenge. So, you have to kill her again.
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Death of Spouse or Partner
Pre-game
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Mary's husband Dylan was killed in France during WWI.
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Family Estrangement
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Jonathan with his mother due to his vampirism; Clay Cox with his wife who runs his gang while he's away
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Loss of Parent (non-death)
Jonathan & Mary
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Their father inexplicably disappeared in 1908
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Suicide
Shooting, self-immolation, attempted
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Shooting — Jonathan tries to unsuccessfully kill himself by shooting himself in the heart at the end of the prologue. Self-immolation — Lady Elisabeth Ashbury will decide to take commit suicide by immolation as a sacrifice to save others. However, you can prevent her going through with it depending on your choices. Attempted — One of the hints for Mortimer Goswick reveals that he's been hospitalized because of attempted suicide. While Jonathan doesn't judge him too harshly, it's noted that it's still a crime in Britain during the years the game's set in, and seeking help for his depression could, ironically, doom him.
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Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design
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Screams
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Ill-formed Dazzled Skals can scream, attracting nearby Skals and enraging them.
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Drugs & Alcohol
Alcohol Consumption
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There is a pub that your character can visit. The owner serves alcohol there and may give you a side quest to fetch more alcohol (avoidable).
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Alcoholism
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Some alcoholic characters, including a citizen at the docks that is constantly drunk and frequents the pub.
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Casual Drug Consumption
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During the course of the game, a character is depicted slapping his arm for a vein, then injecting himself with a drug off-screen ("that is better...I will make it through one more night.").
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Drunkenness
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Some alcoholic characters, including a citizen at the docks that is constantly drunk and frequents the pub.
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Financial & Resource Management
Extortion & Ransom
The Wet Boot Boys; Pembroke Hospital Staff
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The Wet Boot Boys — this is a gang who indulges in extortion and graverobbing, among other things. Most of their 'work' is done off-screen. Pembroke Hospital Staff — Pippa Hawkins and Milton Hooks specifically extort patients at the hospital.
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Homelessness
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Sean Hampton's Night Asylum works to protect folks dealing with homelessness
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Income Management
Shillings
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Gore
Animal Violence
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Jonathan can eat rats for blood, but will usually comment on how disgusting it is.
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Beheading
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A man's decapitated head appears on the ground in one off-screen killing
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Blood
Blood is a main focus of gameplay
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Weapons can use blood (bloodspear). You'll also have to follow blood trails, analyze blood, and interact with it in other ways in order to progress the game.
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Body Horror
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Jonathan rip out the throats of human enemies by stalking and biting them. Skals are afflicted with deformities.
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Guts
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Skal lairs have disemboweled and impaled nude bodies
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Hate & Discrimination
Ableism
Ableism leading to attempted murder; Sanism
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Sanism — The Docks' Seymour Fishburn justifies serial killing by stating he has demons in his head. Ableism leading to attempted murder — Venus Crossley in the West End poisons her husband Clarence to try to kill him. He returned from WWI a "mentally damaged man," dealing with paranoia after seeing a vampire murder humans. He tries to warn others, leading to sanism and this state is apparently affecting her social status. General — Mary calls Jonathan a disease and curse repeatedly due to his vampirism. Skals are afflicted with deformities. The Guard of Priwen breaks into the Whitechapel dispensary and shoot helpless patients in their beds, presumably because they might have been infected.
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Classism
Between vampire types
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Skals are "corrupted" vampires and seen as lower-class. (The game says the word Skal comes from a word meaning “slave”.) Conversely, The Ascalon Club is sexist and elitist, only allowing purebred British Ekon vampires, British high-nobility, and Fiction 500 executives to join their ranks, all of whom must be male. Some humans are occasionally rewarded with vampirism. The group is inherently classist and harmful towards the Skal.
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Dehumanization & Objectification
Between vampire types; towards vampires
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Between vampire types — Skals are "corrupted" vampires and seen as lower-class. (The game says the word Skal comes from a word meaning “slave”.) Conversely, The Ascalon Club is a society of extremely old, rich and powerful male Ekon as well as some humans who are occasionally rewarded with vampirism. They are inherently classist and harmful towards the Skal. Towards vampires — The Guard of Priwen want to annihilate all vampires, referring to them regularly as vermin, leeches, and other dehumanizing language.
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Fantasy Racism
Between vampire types; towards vampires
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Between vampire types — Skals are "corrupted" vampires and seen as lower-class. (The game says the word Skal comes from a word meaning “slave”.) Conversely, The Ascalon Club is a society of extremely old, rich and powerful male Ekon as well as some humans who are occasionally rewarded with vampirism. They are inherently classist and harmful towards the Skal. The Ascalon Club seeks to protect and serve Britain, but is sexist and elitist, only allowing purebred British Ekon vampires, British high-nobility, and Fiction 500 executives to join their ranks, all of whom must be male. Towards vampires — The Guard of Priwen want to annihilate all vampires, referring to them regularly as vermin, leeches, and other dehumanizing language.
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Misogyny
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General due to the time period. Fr. Tobias Whitaker (Whitechapel) is heavily misogynistic / sexist. Also, women are turned more often into ill-formed Skals as they 'struggle' with the transformation process more. The Ascalon Club seeks to protect and serve Britain, but is sexist and elitist, only allowing purebred British Ekon vampires, British high-nobility, and Fiction 500 executives to join their ranks, all of whom must be male.
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Racism
& xenophobia
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Whitechapel's Cadogan Bates is incredibly xenophobic, despite being a landlord who rents to "filthy immigrants" (his words). Pippa Hawkins (a white woman) and Milton Hooks (a black man) are secretly dating. Hooks says racism prevents them from openly acknowledging it. Sabrina Cavendish is half Indian and is in love with Tom Watts, but she feels that Tom gets overly upset when people say racist things about her, so she hides her feelings.
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Sexism
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General due to the time period. Fr. Tobias Whitaker (Whitechapel) is heavily misogynistic / sexist. Also, women are turned more often into ill-formed Skals as they 'struggle' with the transformation process more. The Ascalon Club seeks to protect and serve Britain, but is sexist and elitist, only allowing purebred British Ekon vampires, British high-nobility, and Fiction 500 executives to join their ranks, all of whom must be male.
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Horror Themes
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Demons & Devils
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The Docks' Seymour Fishburn justifies serial killing by stating he has demons in his head.
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Mind Control
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You can use certain powers to control humans at times, using one of two ways: The Hint system allows Jonathan to very lightly compel a person to tell them secrets and information that they wouldn't normally give up which is shown by a slight warping of his voice when he compels his target. He also uses this to convince people who normally would refuse his medications to take them. A much harsher version is the Mesmerize power, which allows Jonathan to directly control his victim's mind, getting them to move to hidden locations so he can feed on them.
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Vampires
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Ekons (normal humanoid vampires), Vulkods (humanoid but very large). Skals (generally rabid-like and animalistic, feeding on flesh, with a few exceptions; can be "ill-formed" and use poison in addition to regular attacks), Beasts (giant creatures with a canine-like appearance who are often mistaken for werewolves). Ichors are plague-bearing monstrosities who spread disease wherever they go. They are more power than the average Skal (equal to Ekons), and are even more physically mutated than their kind. Their condition twists their bodies beyond recognition to the point where they look nothing like her previous self after being turned. Nimrod are vampires that dedicate themselves to hunting their kind and are so effective at hiding they can even disguise themselves from the Ekon.
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Witchcraft
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Myrddin Wyltt (Welsh for Merlin)
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Zombies & Undead
Vampires, flesh eating
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Skals don't just drink blood, but feast upon flesh like ghouls
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Law Enforcement
Police Pursuit
Members of the Priwen Guard will chase and attack you
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LGBTQ+
Misc. LGBTQ+
Oswald Thatcher and Newton Blight
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War veterans Oswald and Newton served together in France and eventually developed feelings for each other. While Oswald is open about his feelings, Newton struggles with his identity and what it means to love another man. Also, it is possible to kill one or both of them, but this is avoidable.
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Mental Health
Depression
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One of the hints for Mortimer Goswick reveals that he's been hospitalized because of attempted suicide. While Jonathan doesn't judge him too harshly, it's noted that it's still a crime in Britain during the years the game's set in, and seeking help for his depression could, ironically, doom him.
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Grief
& guilt
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Sister — At the beginning of the game, your sister Mary is looking for you. Unfortunately, she finds you right after you've turned into a vampire, meaning you attack and supposedly murder her. You then spend multiple chapters of the game feeling guilt & grief, only to discover that she is now a fellow vampire and not actually dead. Lady Ashbury — Lady Elisabeth Ashbury will decide to take commit suicide by immolation as a sacrifice to save others. If you aren't successful in preventing her going through with it, you will grieve her loss immensely. General — You are a doctor and attempt to save patients. Sometimes, it doesn't turn out the way you'd hope and you will grieve and/or feel guilty for that. Some of these deaths are however unavoidable.
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Hallucinations
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If Jonathan's mother is still alive after the cemetery fight with Mary, she will have hallucinations that she continues to speak with Mary, Mary's late husband Dylan, and their late son, as well as her own late husband.
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Misc. Mental Health
Paranoia
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Clarence Crossley returned from WWI a "mentally damaged man," dealing with paranoia after seeing a vampire murder humans.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Discussion
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Jonathan talks about his own history as a field surgeon in France during World War I. Others also reference both Jonathan's service and their own throughout the game.
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Psych Ward
Sean's Night Asylum
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Suicidal Ideation
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One of the hints for Mortimer Goswick reveals that he's been hospitalized because of attempted suicide. While Jonathan doesn't judge him too harshly, it's noted that it's still a crime in Britain during the years the game's set in, and seeking help for his depression could, ironically, doom him.
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Natural Events
Pandemic
1918 Spanish Flu pandemic & vampirism
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While Reid attempts to treat the Flu, he also finds many corpses turning up are being killed by vampires. Vampirism in general is considered a disease on par with the Spanish influenza. Drinking fresh vampire blood is a sure way to turn you into a vampire (although there's a risk the transformation will fail and kill the person horribly, and old vampire blood still grants the drinker superhuman strength as seen with McCullum). In addition to vampirism is an infection known as the Blood of Hate, which is the imperfection that gives all vampires the urge to kill. This is why vampires like Lady Ashbury make sure her victims stay dead after she is done with them.
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Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence
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Blackmail
Shows up several times
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Nurse Crane blackmails against Lady Ashbury after discovering she is killing hospital patients, but does so to help the people of Whitechapel.
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Child Abuse
See CSA tag
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Magical Violence
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Claws, Bloodspear, Shadow Mist, Rage, Abyss, Blood Cauldron
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Mutilation
Mutation
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Ichors are plague-bearing monstrosities who spread disease wherever they go. They are more power than the average Skal (equal to Ekons), and are even more physically mutated than their kind. Their condition twists their bodies beyond recognition to the point where they look nothing like her previous self after being turned.
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Phobias
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Claustrophobia
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General — Some areas require navigating claustrophobic spaces, such as the sewers. Side quest — There is a an optional investigation called "Claustrophobia" where you save a character in the sewers from vampires. He seems to be afraid not only of the vampires but of being locked in a smaller space.
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Hemophobia
Blood is a main focus of gameplay
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Weapons can use blood (bloodspear). You'll also have to follow blood trails, analyze blood, and interact with it in other ways in order to progress the game.
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Misc. Phobias
Decidophobia (Fear of making decisions), Iatrophobia (Fear of doctors), Musophobia (fear of mice or rats), Nosophobia (fear of contracting a disease), Pharmacophobia (fear of medications), Placophobia (fear of tombstones), Sanguivoriphobia (fear of vampires), Taphophobia (Fear of graves), Transmutasanguivoriphobia (Fear of Becoming a Vampire)
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Atychiphobia (Fear of failure), Ballistophobia (Fear of missiles or bullets), Contreltophobia (Fear of sexual abuse), Demonophobia (Fear of demons), Erythrophobia (Fear of the color red), Homichlophobia (Fear of fog), Iophobia (Fear of poison), Pyrophobia (Fear of fire), Zeusophobia (Fear of God or gods)
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Necrophobia
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At certain points, bodies litter the streets due to vampires & the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. You're required to kill several people to get through the prologue. Throughout the game, you'll have to kill Skal (vampires) and other creatures. You can choose to kill animals and humans as well, but this is avoidable. You will have to enter and explore the morgue.
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Nyctophobia
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It is often dark throughout the game, as Jonathan is only outside at night. However, it usually isn't dark enough that you cannot make out your surroundings.
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Trypanophobia
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You work as a surgeon in a hospital, meaning you're around needles and syringes regularly. During the course of the game, a character is depicted slapping his arm for a vein, then injecting himself with a drug off-screen ("that is better...I will make it through one more night.").
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Physical Health & Body Issues
Acquired Disability
Vampirism
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Hospitalization
You work as a surgeon in a hospital
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Misc. Physical Health & Body Issues
Braille
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Mason Swanborough reads Braille and can decipher pages you find written in it
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Pain & Physical Suffering
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Throughout gameplay, you'll find recipes for medicines to treat/cure Headaches, Migraines, Neuralgia, and other conditions.
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Politics
Fanaticism
Guard of Priwen (vampire hunters)
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The Guard of Priwen were originally members of the Brotherhood of Saint Paul, which was just dedicated to studying the supernatural. The Guard decided to take up arms to defend mankind against vampires, are now engaged in heavy fanaticism. Nearly all of the Guard of Priwen enemies are wearing some type of face covering, either a bandana or an entire full-face and featureless solid red mask.
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Religion & Sects
Priests
Christian
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Discussions of a Sean Hampton being molested by a priest
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Religion
Christianity (generally Catholic with some Eastern Orthodox imagery); Celtic deity
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Churches, confessional, funerals, cemeteries, crosses, priests. The Celtic goddess of war is the Morrígan and Red Queen, AKA the final boss.
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Sex & Erotica (Consensual)
Misc. Sex & Erotica (Consensual)
Romance
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It is possible to romance Lady Elisabeth Ashbury.
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Nudity
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Skal lairs have disemboweled and impaled nude bodies
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Sex Work
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You'll encounter sex workers
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Sexual Commentary
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A couple of conversations discussing sexual acts (can avoid or skip)
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Sexual Abuse
Child Sexual Assault
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Discussions of a Sean Hampton being molested by a priest
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Misc. Sexual Abuse
Nonsexual consent violations
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You can choose to turn Geoffrey McCullum once you've defeated him. However, he is an unwilling participant and the scene is violent in a different way because of that. Mesmerism is also a consent violation, enabling a vampire to implant thoughts, erase memories, or simply force people to do things.
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Sexual Harassment
Cadogan Bates
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Whitechapel's Cadogan Bates is incredibly sexist and sexually harasses women tenants to try to get alternative forms of "payment" from them.
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Traumatic Events
Human Experimentation
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Doctor Thoreau Strickland conducts experiments on Pembroke patients. Doctor Swansea has been injecting Harriet Jones with vampire blood for months to "cure" her illness, inadvertently creating the Skal epidemic.
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Structure Fire
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The Great Fire of London of London is referenced.
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Violence in History
Violent Historic Event
1918 Spanish Flu
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War & Military
World War I
Discussion of service
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Jonathan talks about his own history as a field surgeon in France during World War I. Others also reference this throughout the game.
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