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NIGHTHAWKS

Developer The Curiosity Engine

Publisher Wadjet Eye Games

Format PC

Origin UK

Release 2023

This started as a homage to one of Richard Cobbett’s favourite games. “I’d always loved Vampire [The Masquerade]: Bloodlines,” he says. “I had joked about the idea: wouldn’t it be awesome to have Bloodlines but in Fallen London style? And so that seemed like a fairly obvious thing to make.”

Cobbett began his career writing about games for publications including and PC Gamer, before contributing to games such asCreating his own text-based RPG seemed like a natural next step. At first it was something he experimented with as he learned how to use Unity, but then White Wolf, owner of the IP, got in touch after seeing one of his tweets.

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