Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 PS5 Offers Tasty Gameplay Morsel | Push Square
Out of the shadows, Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 has emerged with a rare look at gameplay in a new trailer. A sequel that some ageing RPG fans have been waiting two decades for, Bloodlines 2 was supposed to be out several times over by now and is currently targeting a broad Q1/Q2 2025 release window on PS5.
Developed by Troika Games and polished by Activision, the original Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines was released on PC in 2004, and if you owned a trench coat at the time, chances are it was your favourite game. Considered a masterpiece by many genre enthusiasts, it was a nightmare to make, released in an abysmal state, and later patched extensively by the community.
Bloodlines 2, meanwhile, appears to be afflicted by the same curse and has been in development in some shape or another since 2016. Hardsuit Labs was ultimately removed from the project by publisher Paradox in 2021, taking it internally. That didn't seem to work out either because, in 2023, it was announced that British studio The Chinese Room (Dear Esther, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture) would take charge, which brings us to today.
Paradox officially sick of the RPG game
Are you hoping that Bloodlines 2 will have the same impact as the first game? Can vampires ever be as cool as they were in the early-2000s? Let us know in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
This game is is in quite the development hell at this point. Such a shame.
Really enjoyed the first back in the day. Hopefully It comes together with some of that DNA still in there.
Troika Games made some absolute amazing rpg games back in the day, janky and unstable,
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