I became interested in this genre after watching a youtuber cover a few FMV adventure games inspired by Vampire: The Masquerade. A google search turned up no results so I wanted to ask the community here for recommendations.
I’m looking for any fun or interesting retro games in this style, the more vampires wandering city blocks the better.
Also as a side question I would love to know any tools you use for game discovery - google just turns up pages of auto generated “50 games like” lists.
Shadowrun (nintendo 1993)
This was the first thing I thought of as well. Before shadowrun, it had never even occurred to me that rpgs didn’t have to be a high fantasy, medieval setting.
There’s also a Genesis one which is very different in play style. I remember it being a lot more open but requiring you to lead yourself a lot more. I prefer SNES but they’re probably both worth a look.
Also the Yahama sound chip in a Cyberpunk game was a great match.
While not necessarily retro, I’d add that the modernly available Shadowrun games are VERY good, although they’re more cyberpunk fantasy than reaaaaally urban fantasy.
I guess urban fantasy is just whenever my dnd group wanders in to a town then. Hard to replicate in a game except maybe baldurs gate. There is probably a vampire mod.