The upcoming PS5 RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has been hit with yet another delay, this time pushing the game back from the first half of this year to October 2025. This is the closest the title has ever come to a day and date release date after multiple years of delays, suggesting The Chinese Room has some confidence it can hit October.
A new YouTube video update confirmed the fresh release window, where the vice president of World of Darkness, Marco Behrmann, said more content, "narrative depth, character development", and more have been added to the RPG since the developer's last update.
It's now at a point where the game is completely done and the team is focusing on polishing and bug fixing. More can be sourced from the YouTube description attached to the update: "Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room are committed to delivering this game, and we believe that ensuring great technical quality is more important than sticking to a specific date."
It continues: "The game is currently in a late development stage, and feedback from the community has been taken into account during this time. TCR is working hard on quality assurance to ensure it is stable and free of bugs that could disrupt the player experience." After the project changed hands multiple times, The Chinese Room now finds itself as lead developer, which previously made story-focused titles like Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.
"We want to ensure that the content we share with you is high-quality and showcases exciting game features. With this updated release timeline, we will pause our development diaries so that the team can concentrate on refining the game," it concluded. Do you think Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 really will make it to launch in October 2025? Share your prediction in the comments below.
[source youtube.com]
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This is definitely one I’m waiting on reviews for before I even consider adding it to my wishlist, but I hope the game comes out well.
Their last game was superb so that gives me some hope!
Watch GTA 6 get announced and this game get delayed again for “additions polish”. I get that this is what happened with Dead Island 2 and that wound up being better than the original developers own games, but come on. This one is a meme at this point.
Well I have been prepared for this game to be cancelled so delays don't faze me in the least xD
Risky pinning a date at the end of the year with GTA 6 looming. Honestly a tba would have been better.
#feelsbadman
I love to see a publisher and developer doubling down on the quality of a game. I am keeping a close eye on this.
There are so many great games that you invariably miss out on - as time progresses the universe only adds onto that. I never tried the first. I played a little bit of a game on PS Plus that had a similar name and it was A or AA at best.
At this point I would prefer a remake of the first one, The Mascarade, which was phenomenal at that time but aged poorly.
October does seem somewhat fitting but yeah I’ll wait on this one.
It will be pushed somewhere into 2026-2028 because of "unexpected techical difficulties" .
Why does it have approx 3 names in one?
it's a better date for a vampire game.
I wonder how bloated the team's gotten in the past couple of years since they've been working on 2 games at once, lost their creative head & lead composer (Jessica Curry's work really elevated their games), just generally it really sucks that the old guard went out with the dud Little Orpheus.
This is a great strategic date so they can have the excuse to push it back to 2026 because of GTA 6
@Barryburton97 The Franchise is "World of Darkness" and every board-game/branch-franchise under it has a 2-name name, like "Vampire: The Masquerade", "Werewolf: The Apocalypse" & "Mage: The Ascension". So any project adapting them adds a 3rd name to distinguish itself.
@Chaotic_Goat Looking at EGs recent article about how publishers are scared of it, I wouldn't be surprised but I also don't think Paradox can afford to delay it much longer. The cost has probably ballooned to near AAA levels at this point.
I didn't even realize it had a release date 🤣
I feel like expectations for this one are rock bottom, so if it exceeds that it would be a surprise, maybe not a 'pay full price for it.' level surprise though.
This game has spent more time in torpor than most antediluvians.
I trust The Chinese Room. Every game they have produced has been solid.
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