This isn’t exactly a recommendation for BloodNet, it’s more of me just complaining that it’s the only cyberpunk vampire property I’m aware of. And the gameplay looks really boring, with barely any vampires involved.
You’d think a filthy neon-lit undercity full of high-tech low-lifes would be perfect hunting grounds for vampires, yet I don’t know of any real cyberpunk vampire stories.
I don’t consider Ultraviolet to be an especially cyberpunk movie, or for hemophages to be vampires. Also the movie is bad. Are there any Shadowrun novels with vampires, maybe? Seems like that would fit pretty well.
I tried googling for other cyberpunk vampire stories just in case I was forgetting something and I guess there’s a Cyberpunk 2020 expansion called Night’s Edge which has vampires in it. That’s cool, although I’d prefer a narrative story.
In my search I also found a new series called The Cybernetic Vampire which I’m hoping is exactly what I’m looking for. But the kindle book is only one dollar and it’s 650+ pages long. I’m pretty wary if the author thinks his 650+ pages of effort are only worth one dollar, but I’ll probably give it a try given my lack of any other choices.
Do you know of any other cyberpunk stories that feature vampires?
Priest also might scratch this itch. I enjoyed that one.
IIRC it’s based on a Korean comic, which in turn was based on the Blood game?
That’s true. Priest has an odd mix of cyberpunk city within the walls and wild west outside the walls (even though that makes no sense). Definitely a fun movie, but the vampires never show up inside the cyberpunk city. If only there had been a sequel…
The Priest manhwa apparently has very little to do with the movie, and it wasn’t particularly vampire-centric. Very much Weird West, although the community for that’s gone pretty quiet lately.
I would think immortality and hightened abilities make for an odd clash with cybernetics. Nobody who expects to live for another 200 years is going to sign up for a Generation 1 implant.
This year apparently.I was had.