I’ve expanded my earlier thoughts after a few days to mull the game over, into something more formal. I don’t usually do this but I was feeling in a book-report sort of a mood 
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In Vampire’s Kiss by Dash Casey, you wake up in a London morgue having been turned into a vampire. You dive into vampire society, encountering a cast of intriguing characters and their perilous schemes - and as it turns out, your former museum job looking after an ancient artifact may have had something to do with your recent demise…
This one caught my eye because I found the demo very well-written and the plot grabbed me. There’s an opportunity to get a hint about the major characters and I found them interesting and appealing, and you have the hints of the overarching plot to come. The demo gives a strong sense of the game as a whole so if you like it, it’s very likely that you’ll enjoy the rest.
I enjoyed the game a lot - it felt very well put together and it’s clear how many different paths and outcomes there are. I replayed the demo section after buying and had some very different interactions and events that still felt cohesive. The game makes the fitting-together of the plot’s moving parts look easy when it’s anything but. There are plenty of vivid characters to get to know who are intriguing in their own rights, as well as in the relationships you can develop with them.
Per the marketing copy there are four romances: a passionate socialite (gender-selectable), a scheming vampire queen (female), a cheeky vampire rogue (gender-selectable) and a stoic hunter (male). I went for the hunter and enjoyed the romance a lot, but it was a tricky choice as the other characters were very appealing too - this is unusual for me as I tend to go for one character with any particular MC.
I was able to have a fair amount of time with my romanceable hunter as he was a key part of the plot and he was a very fun character. I very much liked the various ways in which I could draw him into the events of the game and work together even though I risked a lot doing so; I’d have enjoyed more romantic buildup and steamy scenes with him, but there is a lot going on in the game and I didn’t mind the whirlwind feel.
Vampire’s Kiss has a three-chilli rating which is the highest “spice” rating on the app. On this playthrough, the sex scene I played happened to be one of the shorter ones and I wasn’t totally sure what to make of the rating compared to other games I had played with the same heat rating. Upon investigating, many of the scenes with other characters (and others with the same character) are longer, and often include more spice in the way of sexy vampire powers and wilder rides. Nonbinary NPCs do have less detail in their scenes compared to male and female ones; as discussed above, I think there is room for other ways of approaching descriptions of nonbinary characters and MCs.
The vampire society was a lot of fun, as were the side characters. The writing style was a pleasure to read, and I found I was always able to pick from at least one choice that suited my character and path through the game. Sometimes it was hard to make those choices because more than one felt like I’d get a good story from it, which is a great problem to have! Mechanics-wise, it was neither easy nor difficult: I don’t tend to play with a super close eye on stats, and I failed at things a bunch of times, but was still able to have an enjoyable story. The results of the failures didn’t feel punishing and I got a solidly happy ending. The vampiric powers were cool and I had a solid sense of what I could do with them, and I liked the lore around the vampire magic and society in general a lot.
There is clearly a lot in the game that I didn’t scratch the surface of - I’d enjoy romancing the characters I didn’t go for this time, there were some characters I didn’t befriend or even encounter, and paths with wildly different outcomes and adventures, and I look forward to exploring more of the game and the routes available on further playthroughs. If you’d like a fast-paced vampiric adventure in the streets of London that feels familiar without being derivative, I recommend it. I’d love to see the author return to this setting.