Greater than 20 years after the unique Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, tonight’s Gamescom Opening Night time Dwell broadcast has lastly given us a launch date for its much-delayed sequel.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 will launch on October 21, 2025 for PC through Steam, GOG and the Epic Video games Retailer, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Sequence X/S, priced $59.99.
Pre-orders are actually stay, and can unlock a Bloodlines Nostalgia Jukebox decor merchandise in your Haven base upon launch, permitting you to hearken to themes from the unique Bloodlines sport.
The nostalgia continues with the Santa Monica Recollections beauty pack, included with the pricier Deluxe Version model of the sport (priced $69.99), with additional gadgets impressed by the unique sport.
Feeling flusher nonetheless? A $89.99 Premium verison of the sport consists of each Santa Monica Recollections plus Shadows & Silk, an add-on that gives two extra clans with “distinctive skills, playstyles and distinct outfits” in your character. This pack will even be accessible individually, for $21.99.
Talking of characters, at the moment’s trailer confirmed a have a look at the sport’s day/evening gameplay, with daylight hours set in modern-day Seattle as Elder vampire Phyre, and after-dark gameplay set in a Twenties model of the similar metropolis, the place you inhabit a dreamlike model of Malkavian detective Fabien. However which actuality is definitely actual? The reply to that’s one thing we’ll possible have to attend till October 21, 2025, to search out out.
Bloodlines 2 is developed by The Chinese language Room, the acclaimed British indie studio behind final yr’s oil rig horror sport Nonetheless Wakes the Deep, which not too long ago introduced it had accomplished a administration buyout to achieve its independence from former dad or mum firm Sumo Digital. The studio, which additionally developed indie darlings Pricey Esther and Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture, has been engaged on Bloodlines 2 for 4 years, after a earlier model of the sport being made by one other developer was cancelled.
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