Vampire: The Middle Sun

'Vampire: The Middle Sun' (VTMS) is a game project being developed by HEX3N (also HEX3N Publishing) a new game developing and publishing studio. The project will be released on Itch.io as part of the V5 Vampire: The Masquerade and the World of Darkness universe.

The game will feature a visual novel style approach and a fitting horror/dark theme. The story focuses primarily on the journey of our male protagonist and will have a different set of at least three main Sabbat endings (your outcome will depend on the path chosen). An alternate Camarilla ending is also available and can be explored if you keep following Velvet's path...

Depending on the path chosen, you will have one of three different LI or "love interests" (shown below) available to experience some aspects of romance with. Therefore, some adult themes are present within this Visual Novel and are fully up to the player whether to delve deeper or not. Careful if you do though, for your "LI" may also try to manipulate you and/or possibly kill you.

For those who don't like to be tied down to a specific individual, do or don't (though having no love interest to rely on could be a problem in the endgame, but we will worry about that later). Additionally, aside from possible love interests (LI's) there will be plenty of occasions for 'special'  encounters and if you do stick with one LI nothing will prevent you from engaging with them despite of status. Sin, brother. Sin!

The story concept revolves around a certain Sabbat warehouse explosion that took place some 20 years ago and was depicted in the original Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines game and its storyline. The uneventful catastrophe caused by an up-and-coming Camarilla Fledgling is what set in motion a turn of events highly unfavorable to the Sabbat at the time and contributed to their near-demise in the LA area.

You will play as a Duskborn, a Thinblood vampire who was violently embraced and destined to become a mindless short-lived shovelhead in the Sabbat front lines. Our protagonist miraculously manages to escape the explosive death trap and begins making a living back East passing as a human taking advantage of the thinness of the blood and human-like capabilities.

Twenty years have passed. A promise and a connection brings the protagonist back to LA. And the story continues... Players will have the opportunity to choose to commit Diablerie and therefore become full-fledged vampires, or take other possible and unique "avenues."

Additionally,  you may come across a familiar face (shown below).

VELVET..  Former Hollywood Anarch.

Friend or Foe?

 Choose wisely, for your choices will answer that question.

Our protagonist will come across a few of the different Paths of Enlightenment (a vampiric mindset which actively replaces humanity for its followers) present within the Hollywood Sabbat coven. Some with their own internal conflicts, and you will make a choice that may shape the outcome of the Hollywood domain, which has been ravaged by the Second Inquisition (SI). A former anarch and now "Baron-less" domain that is practically up for the taking.

Experience what it means to be a  Sabbat Cainite to the fullest, explore other opportunities to grow in power, or take the thinblood route and remain untainted by the curse of the Antediluvians. The choice is yours. Shape the future of the Hollywood vampiric scene for many years to come. 

As a famous Hollywood Anarch Baron once said: "Welcome to Hollywood."

Vampire: The Middle Sun, will be released under the UNBOUND license within the Vampire: The Masquerade (V5) contemporary setting.