It's been strange days for the blood suckers these past few years, having had their fangs blunted by teen romance novels and movies more interested in pubescent melodrama and shirtless boys. It's going to take a lot to bring the vampire back to its bone-chilling roots, and it looks like Dontnod Entertainment is going to attempt to do just that with its next title, "Vampyr."
Official word on this new project is currently limited to a Twitter post confirming the involvement of publisher Focus Home Interactive. Beyond that, we only have the word of a report from Polygon go on.
And if that report is to be believed, Dontnod's new title will be an action-RPG set just after World War I that will place them in the role of a doctor who, while treating people affected by an outbreak of the Spanish Flu, is bitten by one of the patients and transformed into a vampire.
Gameplay details are scarce right now but the report claims that players will have to face moral quandaries that will arise from the conflict between the doctor's desire to heal people and his vampiric thirst for blood. Supposedly, the "Y" in "Vampyr" is indicative of the vague choices players will be forced to make.
Along with "Vampyr," Dontnod is also developing the episodic adventure game "Life is Strange" for Square Enix (the first episode of which will be released later this month). Because of this, the studio has divided its staff into two groups, that way both games, as well as future projects, will be wrapped up in a judicious manner.
