10 Video Games That Could Sell Millions As A Different Genre

8. Vampire: The Masquerade: Coteries Of Blood

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Vampire: The Masquerade is a popular gaming franchise among several mediums, with 2004's Bloodlines being a bit of a high-water mark for the digital gaming series. Bloodlines 2 is planned to be released in early 2020, exciting much of the fanbase - and if you can't wait for that, then very recently Coteries of New York came out.

For those unfamiliar with the franchise, or the Bloodlines title(s) in particular - you play as a Vampire in a world where Vampires are real but hide themselves away from humans. They have a complex political spectrum that often degrades into petty disagreements and little more than gang-like turf warfare. In the Coteries of New York game, which is more like a visual novel than Bloodlines' action-RPG styling, you get a little group together and navigate one of those tense political issues.

How great would it be to play a Vampire: The Masquerade game as the leader of a vampire hive? You have your little coven of kindred, i.e. fellow vampires, and have to maintain relations with both the vampire world and the human world. With the party relations that seem to be the high-point of Coteries of New York, and the tense action-y aspects of Bloodlines combined into one game? It could sell enough to fund your own Camarilla.

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