Vampire: The Masquerade – Oaths and Ashes launches on Steam

Vampire: The Masquerade – Oaths and Ashes launched on Steam on November 10, 2026, and is also releasing on PC through GOG and Humble.

Developer and publisher Revive the Spark made the game under license from Paradox Interactive AB. The 2026 copyright belongs to Revive the Spark sp. z o.o. and Paradox Interactive AB.

The story centers on two playable protagonists. Alice Lytelton is an ambitious Camarilla Ventrue operative, while Lenz is a Thinblood alchemist, a vampire with weak, diluted blood. Players can take control of both characters, and each one offers unique mechanics, motivations, and goals.

Alice calls on Disciplines, supernatural powers of the undead. She uses them to sway or dominate mortals and Kindred. Lenz relies on a hands-on Alchemy System. His formulae grant new abilities and open conversation paths a Thinblood could not otherwise reach.

The game takes place in fractured, present-night Berlin By Night with no Prince ruling the city. Vampire factions battle for control there. Steam paints the underworld as junkie-riddled gang hideouts set against grandiose opera houses and glistening hotel penthouses. Her Camarilla masters sent Alice to destabilize the region to keep any one faction from claiming ultimate dominion.

Player choices move a living political map of Berlin as districts change hands. Leaders form and break alliances across five warring factions. The map changes color to reflect the shifting situation. Players can bend Berlin to the Camarilla’s will or tilt the conflict toward the Anarchs.

Play involves managing Hunger by satisfying bloodthirst. Players must also maintain The Masquerade, so mortals stay unaware of vampires. Branching dialogue choices can permanently open or close paths, shaping relationships and revealing secrets.

The Steam store page puts the story length at 20–25 hours. It calls the world gory, brutal and bleak. The page says violence and gore appear through text only, with no visual representations of mature content, because it is a visual novel (a text-driven story game).

Revive the Spark is a new studio. Its team includes veterans who worked on earlier Vampire: The Masquerade games. It is a different developer from the studio behind Coteries of New York.

PCGamesN likened the two-character setup to Draw Distance’s New York by Night series, especially the final two entries. The outlet also previewed the game earlier in 2026. IGN categorizes the title as a visual adventure RPG (role-playing game) from Revive the Spark.

Mxdwn reported on November 2, 2026 that Lenz once worked for the state. He also worked for the Camarilla before Kindred Embraced him. He spent 40 years appeasing Berlin’s powers, working as a cook, runner, or scapegoat. Lenz says, “Worked for the state, worked for the Camarilla,” and the outlet called him a junkie who made six drug vials, with four carrying the names sanguine, melancholic, choleric and phlegmatic and the other two going to Alice and himself.

Steam describes Alice as cold and ruthless beneath a civil veneer. She is driven solely by ambition to keep Berlin’s underworld fractured, and she owes no one. Her free, un-submissive behavior overturns Lenz’s worldview, which he then takes on. Steam calls Lenz a Thinblood punk from divided streets in Berlin who lives in a haze of drug-laced blood, sees visions of predecessors, and hears whispers from vampires reduced to ash.

Lenz does not know about grand schemes, Steam says. He has not decided whether he is cursed or gifted, and he feels survival is enough ambition. Berlin’s leaders demand that Lenz show submission and deference while questioning his allegiance. Because of the drugs he makes, the city’s powers believe he owes them.

Berlin’s Kindred society includes Anarch gangs on the surface and remnants of the Camarilla, Steam says. Steam says the old order enforced by the Ivory Tower must be overturned.

Steam hosts review quotes praising the game’s story, characters and decisions. The store page also calls it a journey through Berlin’s vampire society. It calls the game a worthwhile opportunity for fans to view a known world from a different perspective.

ComicBook.com reported on May 1, 2026, that the game would come out in 2026, though the exact date had not been set. The outlet said it was confirmed for PC on Steam, with other platforms still possible, and compared it to the prior visual novel’s mixed reception and Bloodlines 2’s lukewarm response. Kotaku framed it on April 30, 2026, as a visual novel set in the World of Darkness. An ambitious Kindred and a wretched Thinblood clash in Berlin’s underworld, according to the outlet.

PCGamesN points to upcoming 2027 World of Darkness titles. One is the sister VTM game Eternal Whispers. Others are Teyon’s Hunter: The Reckoning: Deathwish, Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Rageborn, and VTM V6.