Vendetta is a game of area control, bluff and treachery in which you scheme and fight for influence and power as immortal vampires! Play cards and blood to earn the control of influential humans, feed on them, and make them your servants; your goal is to gain the most influence over three ages. You draft cards at the beginning of the game, then gradually draw an increasing number of cards from your deck at the beginning of each age (i.e., all the cards you had during the previous age, plus new ones).
While playing, you get to know the powers and abilities of your opponents during your centuries-long struggle, but they do the same with you — and you can never know which new tricks they may have added to their arsenal since your last encounter!
- Unique clan mechanics
- Strategic depth
- Bluffing elements
- Complex rule set
- Potential for elimination via Diablerie
- Vampire clan conflict and power struggle
- World of Darkness, Chicago
- Competitive strategy game
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Area Control — Competing for locations and influence
- Betting and bluffing — Players can play cards face down to hide strategies
- bluffing — Players can play cards face down to hide strategies
- card drafting — Players draw and choose cards each round
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- In the world of darkness where monstrous vampires prowl sustaining their undead existence with human blood
- Diablerie is the most awful crime that a vampire can commit in this society