By Dave Gilbert (Wadjet Eye Games)
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/753131002/nighthawks-the-vampire-rpg-0/description

Text grabbed from the project page, if it sounds like your cup of tea go show them some love.

"Three months ago, you died. And in that moment you were reborn as something new. A monster. A predator. Not a creature of the night, but one of its masters.

Unfortunately, things aren't simple as they used to be. Vampires have finally been exposed, and though your existence is tolerated, your new nature is not. You came to the City hoping for a new start, but found only suspicion and starvation. Now you stare at the ceiling of your cheap hotel room as a penniless outcast, suckling on rats and destined to wither away.

But every new era brings new opportunities, and in the political chaos of a world gone mad, even an outcast may rise. An outcast can change everything.

This is the story of how you rose."

Nighthawks is the brand new urban fantasy RPG from Wadjet Eye Games (The Blackwell Legacy, Unavowed, Technobabylon) and writer/designer Richard Cobbett (Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies, The Long Journey Home). The initial concept for the game came when working on Sunless Skies and dreaming of seeing that calibre of interactive fiction merged with the atmosphere of some of his favourite urban-fantasy books and games, in particular 2004's Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines... and then deciding he wanted to play that new game far too much to just leave the idea sitting in the mental "What If?" folder.

Which brings us to now. Welcome to the mean streets of a city grudgingly trying to show that humans and vampires can live together, despite the cynicism and conspiracies raging on both sides. It's a place of bleak horror and dark humour, filled with monsters who don't all have fangs and a thirst for blood, and featuring new stories down every dark alley. What part will you play, and how will you turn a newly awakened world to your advantage?


More details via the link, this is only a little intro.

More like "By Richard Cobbett (Sunless Sea/Sunless Skies, The Long Journey Home)"
Dave Gilbert is only the executive producer and overseer of the project.

Fair point, I just grabbed the intro text as they had it on the KS page.
Thanks for pointing out the info though because you are quite correct.
I'll add a bit more to the OP for clearity.

Sounds quite fun. The lore and writing of the Sunless games was wasted on them I think and could have done with a much more traditional RPG game to back it up.

Instant back for me. The concept is fantastic and the people behind it are reliable and proven. Yes yes yes.

To be honest, what I really want is a vampire game in which vampires are portrayed as being monsters in human skin with completely alien mindset to humans, what we usually get is "vampires" which are just humans with pointy canine teeth and pale skin (kinda like how Elves are just portrayed as humans with pointy ears).

Looks promising. But I'll wait with backing until they confirm that they are going to release the game DRM-free.

To my knowledge there's only one title from WadjetEye Games that wasnT released DRM-free, and that's because Dave Gilbert did it as contract work for Big Fish Games or something, and it seems he kind of regretted given up the publishing rights to them. There's no guarantee this game will make it to GOG, but I'm pretty confident that there will be a DRM-free release somewhere. Still, you do have a point, better safe than sorry.

They addressed the question in the comments right at the beginning of the campaign:

"Short answer, I don't know! That's just because I can't guarantee approval on things like GOG, though obviously we want it there, and I don't see that being a problem. There won't be any DRM baked into the game on any platform though, because it's a complete waste of time."

Oh yeah i think its safe to assume they'll put it on gog if they can. Not only are all the wadjet games here, but games like sunless sea and cultist simulator are too.

Sounds cool!

I hope it's more RPG, less adventure and that it sports some of the newer art that they're using.

Though I do admit, while not a fan of pixel art I like Wadjet's take on it more than a lot of others.

Yeah, or they basically just make them superheroes who can't come out in the daylight ("Oh no, I'm doomed to an eternity of looking really fashionable at night!"). They're soulless parasites and they're undead, so really their sex appeal is an illusion designed to lure in prey (you never see modern vampire stories grapple with how gross it would be to screw someone, corpse or not, that's room temperature). They probably stink like hell, too.

I don't see GoG rejecting it either. Once a publisher/dev is established here they seem to have a significantly better chance of making it past GoG's curation.

Richard Cobbett designs? In Sunless Sea gas was out all the time which let you stranded, same in Long Journey Home. By this rate, I expect that you are blood-starving directly after 1 minute into the game.
Bummer, I REALLY dig the whole urban fantasy and loved Unavowed. All I really want is sexy, grown up (talking about the characterization here - no Twilight allowed!), and dangerous vampires in a contemporary urban setting - so I'm saying another Vampire The Masquerade :D

Game certainly sounds like it has potential.