History OurVampiresAreDifferent / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare 2'' has the Vampire Flower, a variant of the Sunflower that has reduced maximum health in exchange for LifeDrain on its attacks.

** Of course, the concepts created by players run the gamut, from predictable MarySue concepts (bonus points for CatGirl [[HybridMonster vampires]]), to truly bizarre twists. [[CrazyAwesome Somewhere in between]] is a vampire that uses the [[ManOnFire Fire Armor]] powerset -- he's so old and powerful that he turns his sunlight weakness into a weapon!

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[[caption-width-right:350:We have fat vampires and fit vampires.]]

* ''VideoGame/WarioLand'': some games allow Wario to become Vampire Wario as a power-up for making ontact with a specific bat enemy. In this form, Wario can transform into a bat to fly around, having to avoid [[WeakenedByTheLight light sources]] (or touch them, if he needs to return to normal).

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[[caption-width-right:350:Our vampires are either fat or fit.]]

* ''VideoGame/PlagueInc'' and ''Plague Inc: Evolved'' has the Shadow Plague, a senitent pathogen whose PatientZero is a blood-sucking vampire. Any times it sucks the blood out of its target, the victim dies.

* Vampires are a popular subject for [[HiddenObjectGame hidden object games]]. While most barely touch upon the creatures aside from featuring them, some offer some unique aspects to the lore:

* ''VideoGame/OnePieceUnlimitedWorldRed'': Even apart from being created using the ''Franchise/OnePiece'' Devil Fruit gimmick, the featured Vampire doesn't drink blood so much as he drains his victims of their youth and vitality. And he uses his hands to do so.

* The villains in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage'' are heavily inspired by vampire lore, particularly ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'' and UsefulNotes/ElizabethBathory. They drink blood, they like to go for the neck when they do so, they can shapeshift into a swarm of flies, they react with fury when a maid opens a window (implying that they are WeakenedByTheLight), the BigBad Lady Alcina Dimitrescu runs a winery, her three daughters call to mind [[VampiresHarem Dracula's three brides]], and the names imply an Eastern European (specifically Romanian) setting. If a letter you find in the ''Maiden'' demo is any indication (it's dated to ''1958''), they're apparently [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long-lived]], too. Alcina herself is also [[GiantWoman inhumanly tall]] to the point where she has to stoop to walk through normal-sized doorways, strong enough to effortlessly [[NeckLift lift a grown adult by the neck with one hand]] and hurl a large hardwood desk across a room with enough force to shatter it on impact, and possesses gigantic retractable WolverineClaws. However, this being ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', a SciFiHorror series that inevitably [[DoingInTheWizard does in the wizard]] whenever seemingly supernatural forces are presented, the villains' vampire-like traits are likely to be explained biologically. Notably, in one of the trailers, Lady Dimitrescu can be seen applying lipstick in front of a vanity mirror with [[MissingReflection her reflection]] [[AvertedTrope fully visible]].

* There are two known vampires in ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Gensokyo]]'': Remilia Scarlet and Flandre Scarlet. Remilia is somewhat more traditional as a vampire, disliking sunlight, turning into a bat, [[WordOfGod claiming]] [[BlatantLies direct descendence from Dracula]], and such. However, [[YourVampiresSuck she actually]] ''[[YourVampiresSuck likes]]'' [[YourVampiresSuck cross imagery]], and is ''really'' weirded out when people seem to assume it should hurt her [[WickedCultured (she also tends to drink her blood in teacups prepared by her servant]] [[VampireBitesSuck because she tends to spill far too much of it when she bites people herself)]]. Flandre, on the other hand, looks like a vampire only in her drive for drinking blood (itself questionable, she drinks blood given to her by her maid, but when confronted with a human, WordOfGod says she blows them up without a trace of blood to drink remaining) -- she's a cute little PersonOfMassDestruction (of the unintentional kind) with "wings" made of rainbow-colored rhomboid crystals and a happy, experimentative disposition.

** Their powerset is pretty much standard vampire (more so for Remilia, who loves her BloodMagic, as Flandre tends to cast pure arcane energy spells), but their weaknesses are ''bizarre''. The only normal ones are sunlight and running water (which also applies to rain), but they can't approach sardine heads or shattered holly branches, and roast soybeans burn them. It just so happens that these are the weaknesses of Oni; in fact, one of Remilia's lines in ''Immaterial and Missing Power'' suggests that ''Touhou'' vampires are related to Oni (referring to the fact that the Japanese word for vampire literally means "blood sucking oni"). Oh, and the vampires are also bound in an unbreakable contract to never attack humans in Gensokyo in return for getting blood supplied for them, taken from suicidal humans that live in the outer world.

*** Except Flandre once stated to Marisa that she didn't need to breathe to 'live' which suggests undeadness.
*** And as for the "turning other humans into vampires" bit, it is canon that Sakuya, the Scarlets' faithful maid, has been offered immortality by Remilia only to turn it down. Whether this entailed turning her into a vampire or some other magical method is left unclear.

*** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall Daggerfall]]'' is the first that allows the PC to become a Vampire. You can catch the disease after contract with a Vampire or [[StrongerWithAge Vampire Ancient]]. There are nine Vampire clans and the one you join depends on the region you were infected in. All offer the series standard Vampire advantages and weaknesses, which each adds a unique ability or advantage of its own.

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** ''Wrath of the Lich King'' introduces more traditional vampires in the Darkfallen, undead elven royalty raised by the Lich King. They have extensive blood-based and necromantic magic powers, grey skin, and boss-level strength, though otherwise their powers vary. One, Prince Taldaram, can become invisible, and another, Blood Queen Lana'thel, has bat wings.
** ''Shadowlands'' introduces the venthyr, an aristocratic vampire-esque race tasked with rehabilitating the souls of the recently deceased and cleansing them of their sins in life, from them extracting anima, which is colored blood-red from the process. They have the traditional vampire weakness of being vulnerable to concentrated light, which can either destroy them or turn them into semi-mindless ash ghouls, though they can circumvent it by simply covering themselves with an umbrella or a cloak.

** ''Myths Of The World: Black Rose'' supports the StrongerWithAge trope, and newly-turned vampires must learn their abilities. Abilities for more seasoned vampires include being able to create wards and turn humans into mindless thralls.

** ''Shadowlands'' introduces the venthyr, an aristocratic vampire-esque race tasked with rehabilitating the souls of the recently deceased and cleansing them of their sins in life, from them extracting anima, which is colored blood-red from the process. They have the traditional vampire weakness of being vulnerable to concentrated light, which can either destroy them or turn them into semi-mindless ash ghouls.

** The origin of Vampirism traces back to [[GodOfEvil Molag Bal]], [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Domination and Corruption]]. Legend holds that Molag Bal decided to upset the balance of the cycle of life and death maintained by one of his fiercest enemies, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Aedric]] [[SaintlyChurch Divine]] Arkay. Molag Bal sought out and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil raped]] a priestess of Arkay, a [[{{Precursors}} Nedic]] woman named Lamae Beolfag. From her, the disease spread and twisted into the various forms seen today. Other sources, such as the [[OurElvesAreBetter Dunmeri]] [[CorruptChurch TribunalTemple]] make different claims, but all include Molag Bal in some way.

* VideoGame/TheLordOfTheRingsOnline has the Merrevail, which are a kind of ancient evil. They are decidedly less [[VampiresAreSexGods sexy]] than most, appearing more as hunched, grey skinned human-ish things with wings on their arms, though some of the stronger ones can call out swarms of bats. There is also a quest in Mirkwood where an Elf swears he ran into an actual Vampire (very rare in Tolkein's settings, only referred to on maybe two occasions in the Silmarillion.) It turns out to be a [[BatOutOfHell REALLY big bat]] but then again, it does talk to you right before you kill it...