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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.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is a fmv, rpg and choices matter game developed by 木焱工作室 and published by CC_Games, Wave Games and 木焱工作室.
Released on February 19th 2024 is available on Windows and MacOS in 6 languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.

It has received 3,899 reviews of which 3,463 were positive and 436 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.89€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Vanity Fair: The Pursuit into these genres:

FMV RPG Choices Matter Story Rich Cinematic Indie Drama Immersive Sim Simulation Interactive Fiction Visual Novel Word Game Singleplayer Dating Sim Life Sim Puzzle-Platformer Third Person Colorful Idler 1990's

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System requirements

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Windows
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel CPU Core i5-2500K 3.3GHZ /AMD CPU Phenom Il X4 940
  • Memory: 6 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 集成
  • Storage: 23 GB available space
MacOS
  • OS: macOS Big Sur 11
  • Processor: Intel Core i3
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 独立显卡
  • Storage: 23 GB available space

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June 2025
Ni Hao, Kai Lan. Don’t expect a game in the traditional sense—this is more like watching a solid C-drama unfold and nothing like a Telltale or Quantic Dream game. Only certain choices will push the story forward into later chapters, but the alternate paths and endings are interesting enough to make exploring worthwhile. Note: The short epilogue title cards are missing English translations for the Chinese text.
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June 2025
Finally achieved 100% achievements! Such a great game, good cast and overall, quality is so high. Branching paths and altering endings is a strong point here, and only little errors with the subtitles. Wish to see a sequel too.
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May 2025
Great game. Dramatic af and some actual quality acting. As the main character some of the choices you can make are diabolical!
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Feb. 2025
ok, i am gonna give my most honest intake review on this. It was good, honestly not the best i played, it was honestly really sad and kinda angered me. and the best things of the whole game were basically He Xiaomeng, Guan Haiyue and Hemu. i recommend getting it if you have no expectation of romance because its gonna disappoint you if you do.
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Jan. 2025
This is a very solid FMV drama game with some good but limited romance. Vanity Fair: The Pursuit’s core strength is its crime drama story, aided by many branching paths. You play as Lu Yuan, a young director who has yet to succeed. After failing yet again, he contemplates suicide and fortuitously meets a business manager who wants to get into movies. Unfortunately the business is actually run by a crime family. Lu Yuan signs on to make his dream movie. But, due to the criminal element, tragedy strikes and one of his oldest female friends is killed. Although the culprit is clear, they get away with it. You plot for revenge and the only way to pull it off is to ascend this crime family by doing some underhanded things. How far will you go for payback? The overall story is great, with twists and deception. It features oodles of branching paths and spans 15+ years. Like a Choose-your-own adventure book from the 90s, a lot of choices lead to a premature ending. So there might be 10 endings in a chapter and only 1 unlocks the next chapter. Many endings result in death or failure (begging on the street). Some are actually positive though; two women have romantic conclusions in the opening chapters, which is unusual. Unlike a lot of other dating sim games, you don’t get to the end and live happily ever after with whomever you choose. No, the full and final ending really only involves a relationship with one of the women, although admittedly this is done well and makes sense. There are some alternate endings, but they’re not quite as substantial. While the branching paths are great, it can make for tedious completion. There are some logical choices that lead to the next stage (e.g. working out who gave you information), but also just as many that seem random. A few paths require high affection and this might mean you have to go back to previous chapters. So you almost have to brute force it, or hope to get lucky. It took about 3.6 hours first run and another 4 to see 98% of the scenes. Video quality is decent. Unlike the newer dating FMVs, most scenes are third-person with main character Lu Yuan visible, but there is some first-person footage. Audio is sadly all ADR (automated dialogue replacement), so that subtracts a few points. Translation is mediocre, with overflowing text on screen, text that flashes off quickly, and the usual gender issues. Actors and actresses are good. Hemu’s actress was also in Director Simulator. Xiaomeng’s was in Half Billion: Love Choice. And Haiyue is probably the best of a very good cast. Ultimately, if you’re happy to navigate through a lot of branching paths in order to actually reach the end, Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is definitely worth playing. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/nutcrackr/]Check my profile for my current ranking of FMV dating games
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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is currently priced at 6.89€ on Steam.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 6.89€ on Steam.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit received 3,463 positive votes out of a total of 3,899 achieving a rating of 8.56.
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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit was developed by 木焱工作室 and published by CC_Games, Wave Games and 木焱工作室.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is not playable on Linux.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is a single-player game.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit does not currently offer any DLC.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit does not support Steam Remote Play.

Vanity Fair: The Pursuit is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Vanity Fair: The Pursuit
6.89€ Buy Now
Rating
8.6
3,463
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Online players
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Developer
木焱工作室
Publisher
CC_Games, Wave Games, 木焱工作室
Release 19 Feb 2024
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