This isn’t exactly a recommendation for BloodNet, it’s more of me just complaining that it’s the only cyberpunk vampire property I’m aware of. And the gameplay looks really boring, with barely any vampires involved.
You’d think a filthy neon-lit undercity full of high-tech low-lifes would be perfect hunting grounds for vampires, yet I don’t know of any real cyberpunk vampire stories.
I don’t consider Ultraviolet to be an especially cyberpunk movie, or for hemophages to be vampires. Also the movie is bad. Are there any Shadowrun novels with vampires, maybe? Seems like that would fit pretty well.
I tried googling for other cyberpunk vampire stories just in case I was forgetting something and I guess there’s a Cyberpunk 2020 expansion called Night’s Edge which has vampires in it. That’s cool, although I’d prefer a narrative story.
In my search I also found a new series called The Cybernetic Vampire which I’m hoping is exactly what I’m looking for. But the kindle book is only one dollar and it’s 650+ pages long. I’m pretty wary if the author thinks his 650+ pages of effort are only worth one dollar, but I’ll probably give it a try given my lack of any other choices.
Do you know of any other cyberpunk stories that feature vampires?
Daybreakers is a debatably cyberpunk vampire movie. The corporate exploitation vibes are spot-on
I would say Daybreakers is definitely a sci-fi vampire movie (of which there also aren’t many) but I personally wouldn’t call it cyberpunk. Maybe there’s a twist I don’t remember, but I thought the corporation was simply trying to keep up with demand, not that they were doing anything outright evil to increase profits.
They were farming and oppressing humans and trying to monetize/monopolize artificial blood, IIRC. Been a long time since I last saw it, though
That’s the one I was thinking of.