21 Years After the Original, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 Finally Has a Release Date

More than 2 decades aft the archetypal Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, tonight's Gamescom Opening Night Live broadcast has yet fixed america a merchandise day for its much-delayed sequel.

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 volition motorboat connected October 21, 2025 for PC via Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, priced $59.99.

Pre-orders are present live, and volition unlock a Bloodlines Nostalgia Jukebox decor point for your Haven basal upon release, allowing you to perceive to themes from the archetypal Bloodlines game.

The nostalgia continues with the Santa Monica Memories cosmetic pack, included with the pricier Deluxe Edition mentation of the crippled (priced $69.99), with further items inspired by the archetypal game.

Feeling flusher still? A $89.99 Premium verison of the crippled includes some Santa Monica Memories positive Shadows & Silk, an add-on that provides 2 further clans with "unique abilities, playstyles and chiseled outfits" for your character. This battalion volition besides beryllium disposable separately, for $21.99.

Speaking of characters, today's trailer showed a look astatine the game's day/night gameplay, with sunlight hours acceptable successful modern-day Seattle arsenic Elder vampire Phyre, and after-dark gameplay acceptable successful a 1920s mentation of the aforesaid city, wherever you inhabit a dreamlike mentation of Malkavian detective Fabien. But which world is really real? The reply to that is thing we'll apt person to hold until October 21, 2025, to find out.

Bloodlines 2 is developed by The Chinese Room, the acclaimed British indie workplace down past year's lipid rig fearfulness crippled Still Wakes the Deep, which precocious announced it had completed a absorption buyout to summation its independency from erstwhile genitor institution Sumo Digital. The studio, which besides developed indie darlings Dear Esther and Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, has been moving connected Bloodlines 2 for 4 years, aft a erstwhile mentation of the crippled being made by different developer was cancelled.

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