“Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been delayed again, this time until the second half of 2025,” Edwin wrote in March this year. Today I write: Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 has been given a full release date at tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night Live, along with a fresh trailer.
To this point, the tale of Bloodlines 2 has been one of fan swearing induced by delays that have been a seriously regular occurence. Originally worked on by Hardsuit Labs, the game’s current devs The Chinese Room have said they’re going for more of a spiritual successor than straight sequel. As of that last delay earlier this year, they were also very keen not to release it in as buggy a form as another Paradox project, Cities: Skylines 2.
That brings us to today, and Bloodlines 2’s appearance at 2025’s Gamescom Keighleyfest. It’ll release on October 21st, The Chinese Room have revealed, narrowing down the previously given window to one date that’s just about close enough to halloween.
You can check out the new trailer that revealed the new date above. As you’d imagine, it contains plenty of vampirey goodness, with the player literally exploding someone into a big blood splatter at one point by cheekily messing with their heart. As Fabien and Phyre, you’ll be unravelling mysteries from the past and roaming modern day Seattle.
Everything keeps coming back to a tree surrounded by sunflowers in a field that’s permanently coated in an eerie orange sunset hue, where someone’s chilling out as they wait for Phyre. Hopefully Phyre’s on time. Vampires, assuming this shadowy figure is one, can be sticklers for promptness, especially when dawn’s nearing.
Overall, it looks pretty cool, speaking as someone who enjoyed The Chinese Room’s Scottish oil rig horror flick Still Wakes the Deep last year. There don’t look to be any Scottish vampires in Bloodlines 2, which is a little disappointing, but to be fair this is only a two-minute look at it. The real question, though, will be how well it matches up or doesn’t with the expectations of the long-suffering crypt-dwellers who really dug their teeth into Troika Games’ original Bloodlines. Especially given how much the vision behind it looks to have evolved as it’s stalked through the night of a pretty tumultuous development.
We’ll find out on October 21st, assuming no more delays are lurking down shadowy alleyways.
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