A downloadable game for Windows

A first person game focused on dialogue and investigation set in a high-society vampiric masquerade.

Controls:

Move with WASD, jump with space and interact with E (there isn't a lot to interact with yet, but you can do it when you get closer to certain NPCs). During dialogue you may select any option available. You may also open the menu with ESC.


Made by Goeth Sapphire for the Queer Vampire Game Jam.



So, this is extremely rushed and I could only finish a short demo, but I'd been working on the game since the Game Jam started, partially because I had an idea that kind of reflected my own gender identity crisis and partially because I just like vampires, so I wanted to at least post something. Also it was a nice experiment to try out Unreal Engine 5 (it might be quite unoptimized because of that though) and finally using Blender on an actual game.

I couldn't really get into the queer topics the game was gonna deal with in the demo, it's really short after all, and I'm not sure if it really fits the theme of the game jam (it's pretty different from regular visual novels or interactive fiction too since it's a first-person 3d game), but oh welp, it's something. Hopefully I can make the full version though if anyone would like to play it :)



External Assets used:

- Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre, played by Kevin MacLeod https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Danse_Macabre

- Wall light 3d model by Lucas Garnier https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/wall-light-c723fa0a1ac3478790192acdb39161b0

- Wallpaper by photodash, from https://www.deviantart.com/photodash/art/gothic-victorian-wallpaper-77656443

- Ritalin font from https://www.1001fonts.com/ritalin-font.html

- Neck romancer font from https://www.1001fonts.com/neck-romancer-font.htm

Download

Download
The Crimson Masquerade - Goeth Sapphire.zip 543 MB

Install instructions

To install The Crimson Masquerade on Windows:

  1. Download the "The Crimson Masquerade - Goeth Sapphire.zip" file.
  2. Right-click it and extract it onto a folder.
  3. Open the game folder created.
  4. Open the executable "CrimsonMasquerade.exe" file to play.

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