Van Helsing: Nights of Hunger

Van Helsing: Nights of Hunger is an upcoming survival horror game. The game is a sequel to Van Helsing: Wrath of Dracula and follows Friedrich Van Helsing, son of Ludwig Van Helsing and a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, who travels to an abandoned ghost town in Alaska to rescue his kidnapped son and daughter, while fighting off monsters and a strange new enemy. Just like its predecessor, the game has a heavy focus on resource management and exploration, with a heavy focus on atmospheric horror; and drawing heavy inspiration from Native-american and Inuit mythology.

Plot
Van Helsing: Nights of Hunger takes place in 1923. The protagonist is Friedrich Van Helsing, son of Ludwig and Katerina Van Helsing, who emmigrated to Canada after the events of the first game. Friedrich served briefly in the German army at the outbreak of WWI, but was discharged because he refused to execute civilians during the invasion of Belgium and killed one of his commanding officers. Escaping execution, Friedrich fled to Canada and settled in a cabin on British Columbia, where he married a woman and had two twins, Inge and Rudolf. After going hunting one night, Friedrich returns to his cabin where he finds his wife shot and his two children missing. A note was left stating that the kids had been taken to Crampton, a ghost town in Alaska famouse for being consumed by a strong snowstorm, and are being held hostage. Friedrich is instructed to bring a ransom to Crampton as soon as possible.

Friedrich travels to Crampton and finds the place abandoned, with no sign of the children or any kidnappers on sight. After exploring the empty town, Van Helsing encounters a wounded man who belongs to the kidnappers. Before he can answer where the children are, the man is attacked and mauled by a thin humanoid figure, revealed to be a Qalupalik. After killing the monster, Friedrich explores the ghost town which is starting to get filled with several monsters including Akhluts, skin-walkers, Issitoqs, Adlets, Qiqirns and Thunderbirds. He also encounters a couple people in the town, most of them the ones who kidnapped the twins imploring him to spare their lives, which decision is up to the player. Eventually, Friedrich encounters armed men who come into the town trying to eliminate the monsters, as well as taking Friedrich alive. When Friedrich is captured by these mysterious men, his father, Ludwig Van Helsing arrives to Crampton. The player takes control of Ludwig and begins tracking down his family.

Conversations with characters and narration by Ludwig reveal that the men are "Triskelion", a secret organization that hunts down and captures paranormal entities around the world for study. Triskelion approached Ludwig a few years after the events of Wrath of Dracula with the intent to recruit them, but after discovering their willingness to experiment with human beings and victims of attacks, Ludwig abandons them. The recent events on Crampton have caused a dormant entity known as the Wendigo, to increase activity in the town, calling the attention of both Triskelion and Ludwig, who races to save both Friedrich, Inge and Rudolf before Triskelion capture them or they're killed by the monsters.

At the climax of the game, Ludwig frees Friedrich and the two of them track the twins to the abandoned mine, where they confront the Wendigo, an evil spirit that changes men into sadistic cannibals. The Wendigo reveals the snowstorm that hit Crampton years ago brought on a famine that gave the Wendigo strength and consumed the town, attracting nearby travelers and lost people to feed off them. Depending on Friedrich's actions through the game, there are multiple endings.

Plot points and characters that affect the ending
There are a total of sixteen different endings that depend on how much the player takes to complete the game, certain objects that the player has found and how certain boss fights happen. These include: