History OurVampiresAreDifferent / VideoGames

** Turning into a vampire is done by replace one's own blood with the vampire's, usually through ingestion. The process of turning into a vampire is implied to be slow, painful, and irreversible - once the process has started, the only options are either to become a vampire or death. The environment around a vampire during the turning process contributed to shaping their powers; Alucard has wolf-themed powers due to being turned under a full moon.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'', despite individuals like Rath [[InsistentTerminology insisting that they're not vampires]], the Jennerit tick a number of vampire boxes InSpace Some who have very noticeable fangs, and all use the "dark energies" of the universe to alter it and themselves to suit their needs -- specifically, draining life energy to make themselves immortal. They have an [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver evil red and black color scheme]] and an aesthetic combining gothic influences and the art style of ''Film/{{Tron}}''. The Goth-Tron aesthetic translates to their structures looking like futuristic {{Uberwald}}, complete with floating castles, graveyards, courtyards, and coffin-shaped containers. Bats even pop out when said coffin containers are opened. As a faction, they use tech that can manipulate the life energies of other beings -- meaning that while they may not actually drink blood, they ''can'' drain life. In addition, when Rendain took over the Jennerit Empire and decided to ally with the Varelsi, the mission he set the Jennerit on was "destroying Suns".
* Vampires in ''Franchise/{{BlazBlue}}'' are a form of illusionary creatures, beings manifested via [[TheLifestream the Azure]] from human emotions, not entirely unlike [[SoulPower Drive]] [[AnthropomorphicPersonification manifestations.]] While normal vampires have to drink blood in order to sustain themselves and are hurt by sunlight and holy water, neither Clavis Alucard nor his daughter Rachel have displayed any of the traditional vampire weaknesses. Rachel can, for example, walk around in broad daylight, and although she uses [[{{Familiar}} Nago]] as a parasol, this seems to be for decoration rather than protection, as she is no less powerful in daylight than at night, and she even pulls a crucifix out of the ground during her [[FinishingMove Astral Heat.]] On the power-platter side, the vampires are stated to possess incredibly high life-force values, which allows them to do stuff like [[BloodyMurder control blood]] and [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation create weapons]] from it. The Alucard family, in particular, are also [[AllPowerfulBystander Observers]] dedicated to the [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum observation]] [[RippleEffectProofMemory of the world's timeline,]] making Rachel canonically one of the most powerful characters in the game.

* The vampires in the video game ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'' are made of real tough stuff. Not only can they endure just about any of the vampire weaknesses you can throw at them, they are notorious for tanking the shots of a gun that is not only powered by sunlight, but actually fires off rounds made of solar energy. Even if they do die, they tend to come back at inopportune times, so the best way to render them DeaderThanDead is to drag its coffin to the Pile Driver and fire it up!

** The original user of this job, Lord [=DeRosso=], is likewise distinctly different from average vampires: [[spoiler: his immortality was given to him by some kind of demonic entity (implied to be an alternate universe future version of him in a scene leading to TrueEnding) as a means of getting revenge to the people who killed his family, put his manor under siege and disallowed his surrender to them, forcing him to set his manor on fire and almost killing himself as a result. Since he managed to survive the fire and escape by accepting the DealWithTheDevil, he and the rest of his clan were branded vampires, which he capitalized on by spending his immortality to perfect magic that would complete the image, such as the ability to grow fangs and turn into a bat in order to appear more menacing to his enemies, most of which he ended up ultimately assassinating.]]
** In fact, he explicitly states [[spoiler:he isn't a vampire, and actually finds blood to be quite disgusting.]]

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' has Vampyrs (and [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]]} that are ''very'' different -- a variant of the SuperSerum used by the [[StupidJetpackHitler Fifth Column]] and later the Council creates monstrous creatures that join the Equinox division and have strange life-sapping powers. The head of the Equinox division and creator of the Vampyrs is called, naturally, Nosferatu.

* Vampire Cookie from ''VideoGame/CookieRun'' is a FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire who drinks [[FrothyMugsOfWater grape juice]](originally wine pre {{Bowdlerization}}) instead of blood. He extracts health-restoring droplets of juice from obstacles, can turn into a wine glass with bat wings, and has a [[SiblingYinYang younger sister]] who's not undead at all.

* The ''Videogame/DinerDash'' series has Glampires that are seemingly a ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' parody/ShoutOut (they look like Edward and are called...well, Glampires. Also, their Werewolves are called [[Film/TeenWolf Tween Wolves]], so...) They eat what looks like normal food that all of your other customers consume and in the ''Hotel Dash'' spin off seemingly sleep in regular beds. If you don't serve them quick enough, rather than kill your other customers, they simply block them from getting by.
* In ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'', vampires are a subtype of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] whose power is tied to the consumption of human blood. VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4| A Promise Unforgotten}} revolves around a vampire who's looking for a way back to the top after his [[VegetarianVampire refusal to drink human blood]] [[DePower has stripped him of his past power]]. Apparently he had been surviving on sardines ever since.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''

** Slayer draws heavily on classical vampire motifs, being a highly cultured, seemingly immortal gentleman who takes great interest in observing humanity. Even when he's defeated in combat, his sprite for lying on the ground shows him not dead or knocked out, but holding his head up, legs crossed, looking amused. He also has some shades of being a [[FriendlyNeighbourhoodVampires Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire]], since he's HappilyMarried to an immortal woman -- he can drink all of her blood and she just regenerates it back.

* Dracula appears in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestII'' long enough to confirm the pale skin, sleeping in coffins, being repelled by crosses, and able to be killed by a stake to the heart. In the FanRemake (where Dracula is replaced by Caldaur), the pale complexion and sleeping in coffins remains and immortality is confirmed as well. One unique aspect of vampires is that they seems to age or rejuvenate to their twenties or thirties if they're not there already [[spoiler: as shown when Caldaur turns Lavidia and Possom.]] For some reason, female vampires in the game have strongly distorted voices.

* Vamp from ''Franchise/MetalGear'' is... different. He acquired his unusual dietary habits when, as a child, he was buried alive under the rubble of a bombed church, with only the blood of his family to keep himself from dying of thirst. He has a {{Healing Factor}} but [[spoiler: it's due to nanomachines]]. He's immune to sunlight, and can move around freakishly -- he, at one point, runs fast enough to walk on water. He's also able to swim in a section of the Big Shell that's explicitly stated to have nanites that will more or less drown anyone in it by lack of friction (sinking them to the bottom). In ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 MGS4]]'', as a EasterEgg, hitting him with the unlockable Solar Gun instantly knocks him out.
** Vamp had some supernatural weirdness going on before [[spoiler:being injected with nanomachines]]. The [[spoiler:nanomachines]] came after ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2 MGS2]]'', and amped up what was already there.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' has Vampires as EliteMook-type enemies, having a quick FlashStep ability which makes the process of staking them difficult. They're also immune to the SilverBullet (who works against werewolves) and the torch, despite the classical depiction of vampires being vulnerable to silver and light. The game's FinalBoss is notably a powerful Vampire Lord simply called The Count, who can spam fireballs, transform into a bat to pursue the player, and needs to be staked ''six'' times.

* In ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' [[NotUsingTheZWord fampyrs]] are [[FantasticSapientSpecies Kith]] who have bound their souls to their corpses. They need to eat [[YourSoulIsMine soul energy]] to keep from degenerating into [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier more]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent mindless and degenerate]] [[DemBones undead]], which is easiest to get from consuming [[IAmAHumanitarian the flesh and blood of other kith]]. Becoming a fampyr doesn't alter their mentality in any way, but the combination of having to eat people and the awareness of the FateWorseThanDeath that awaits them if they don't means most fampyrs are unhinged and/or pessimistic anyways.

* Vampires in ''VideoGame/ARoseInTheTwilight'' are different from most other vampires in that their powers [[GreenThumb floral based]]. They absorb blood like a plant absorbs water, which freezes the source of the blood, and can attack with thorny vines. [[spoiler:The game's BigBad, Viola, also wears a bright pink dress instead of the more common black outfits of most vampires]].
* Meet Graf Michael Sepperin of ''{{VideoGame/Rosenkreuzstilette}}''. As if just organizing for a coup to be launched against the Empire just wasn't enough, leave it to him to make a DealWithTheDevil and begin using the forbidden arts to transform himself into a vampire and begin commanding an army of monsters, demons, and the undead, and even bring Raimund back from the dead as TheGrimReaper. The Graf not only is one of the [[BigBad BigBads]] ([[spoiler:other than his biological daughter, of course, who takes the spotlight of main BigBad from him after his defeat]]), but is also an {{Expy}} of {{Dracula}} of ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' fame, even coming complete with a demonic transformation. Not to mention, he even randomly says one out of two lines when he transforms, the famous "Grant me power!" line and even the "I am the Devil!" one that references to Dr. Weil of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' fame.
* Vampires (called Vampyres) in ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' come in two flavours, the first being the "easily disposed of with enough blunt trauma or a nice swipe of a sword' kind. The other kind, though, are basically a vampire on crack (or perhaps PCP); while restrained to a certain area, they are NighInvulnerable {{winged humanoid}}s who can only be killed with a special flail made from a silver/mithril alloy that has been dipped into the blessed river salve, as even normal silver weapons don't work on them because they can read your mind to know when and where you will strike. There are also Blisterwood weapons that can damage them which you can acquire later on, though to be able to make them you have to sneak into the most heavily guarded part of their city. The Blisterwood seems to be best way to deal with Vampyres, as it seems to weaken them as soon as they get near it, and despite the Vampyres trying their hardest to destroy the tree it is made from, the best they can do is lock up the tree and put as many guards as they can around it.

** Also appearing in the game are the "Sanguine Hulk" vampires, a rare variant created when vampires become desperate or stupid enough to drink the blood of fellow vampires; comparable to steroid usage and blood-doping in humans, this cannibalistic process causes the vampire to balloon into ComicBook/{{Bane}}-like monstrosities capable of serving as humanoid siege engines. Unfortunately, the process [[DeadlyUpgrade amplifies their hunger and shortens their lifespans]], and because they're so volatile, other vampires usually end up offing them as liabilities anyway.

** Keith from the original ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts1'', the middle brother, is the most classic vampire of the family and is a very refined gentleman. He lives in his ancestral castle in Translyvania, wears a formal costume, fights with swords, and can cast powerful magic by summoning supernatural creatures. His other powers include turning into a silver-colored bat and becoming invisible, although it isn't incorporated in gameplay.

** Must be noted that the 'cross imagery' part is due to ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve and the dominant faith (if any) in Gensokyo is a bizarre mutation of Shinto, not Christianity. [[TheHero Heroine]] [[{{Miko}} Reimu Hakurei]] uses amulets and other religion-themed projectiles in battle and they are as deadly to Remilia and Flandre as they are to all the other {{Obake}} in the series.

** Ability-wise, the ''Vampires Dawn'' vampires of the first few generations are really CursedWithAwesome. Vampirism comes with {{Immortality}}, a HealingFactor, increased physical abilities (Asgar at one point [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe tears a man in half]]), sharper senses, control over lesser undead, an enormously strong affinity for learning magic spells, VoluntaryShapeshifting right [[JustForPun off the bat]], a SpiderSense for dangerous areas, and an aura which hides their fangs and cold skin from humans.

** Serious downsides do exist though. If they lose all their blood (which translates to mana points in-game), they go berserk. If they lose all HP, they don't die but go into torpor instead until they're fed blood and start [[HealingFactor regaining HP again]]. The only way to kill a vampire permanently is to [[OffWithHisHead chop off their head]]. They then suffer AFateWorseThanDeath in the realm of Blood Wraiths where they're in constant agonizing pain.