Bitter Nights: Case of the Bleeding Hearts
A downloadable game for Windows
Bitter Nights:
Case of the Bleeding Hearts
A visual novel set in the universe of Vampire: The Masquerade made during the Vampire: The Masquerade Game Jam 2022.
Follow along with the story of Malkavian private eye Ludwig Bitter as he has only three nights to investigate a murder case threatening to damage the Masquerade between vampires and mortals.
Manage your hunger and your time as you investigate leads and meet your contacts, both alive and undead, across eight major investigative scenes and hunt in the backstreets.
The decisions you make and clues you accumulate will decide the knowledge you have at hand to tie up the case in the ending sequence.
Will you close the case or end up hauled before the Prince for being even worse than your quarry?"
- Interactive Story with impactful choices
- manage your Hunger throughout the story
- meet 12 different characters
- 5 different Endings
This visual novel can be played with mouse alone.
Use the left mouse button to get the next text or use a button.
The right mouse button opens always the settings menu.
With the key ESC you can close the game at any time.
Simon “Elegias” Gutleben | Writing |
Marcel Mallon Instagram: nastanian | Character & Background Art |
Ramona Kiuntke Website: kiu-design | GUI Art |
Melina Cornelius | Game Designer, Producer, Developer |
Tara | Proofreader |
Veluthi | Proofreader |
BlackSherry | Tester |
Hornmeister | Tester |
das Tofu | Tester |
Special Thanks
Jonathan Witt
This game was created as a part of Vampire: The Masquerade game jam. Events portrayed in this game are not canon within World of Darkness universe
Status | Released |
Platforms | Windows |
Authors | MelCat, Elegias |
Genre | Visual Novel |
Made with | Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop |
Tags | 2D, Detective, Noir, vam, vampire-jam, vampire-the-masquerade |
Average session | A few hours |
Languages | English |
Inputs | Mouse |
Download
Install instructions
- Download the Zip Folder
- Unpack the Zip Folder
- Open the Folder
- Double Click on the BitterNights.exe
If you downloaded a Version before V1_3 please do the following before you download the game:
- Open a window
- write %appData% in it
- Delete the Folder Bitter Nights
- or open the Folder and delete the SaveGame Data
Development log
- Team Introduction & AcknowledgementFeb 09, 2023
- Patch Note V1.8Feb 02, 2023
- Ending Guide (Spoilers)Jan 30, 2023
- Patch Note 1.6 & 1.7Jan 29, 2023
- Patch Note V1.5Dec 06, 2022
- Patch Note V1.3 to V1.4.2Dec 03, 2022
- Patch Note V0.9Nov 30, 2022
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