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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit

Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

Players follow Lu Yuan through important stages of his life and experience his growth trajectory from youth to maturity. It will take you to relive those decisions that you have never tried to make in reality, and feel the different life brought about by each choice.

What works
  • Deep and engaging branching narrative
  • High-quality acting and cinematic presentation
  • Multiple meaningful endings
  • Emotional and morally complex story
  • Replayability with choice exploration
Things to keep in mind
  • Limited interactivity beyond decision points
  • Some forced narrative paths reduce player freedom
  • Translation and subtitle quality issues
  • Occasional story pacing and logic inconsistencies
  • Lack of character customization or active gameplay

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Refate: Echoes of Desire

  • Night Call

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  • The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker

  • The Forgotten City

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  • SIMULACRA

  • Game of Fate: Chasing Through Time
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Refate: Echoes of Desire

  • 蓝宝石般的被害妄想少女/Damsel with persecutory delusion

  • The Sand Man
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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Status. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Continuation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Violence.

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