It’s apparently “not impossible” that we’ll be playing the long-awaited (and much-delayed) Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 next year.
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That’s according to Paradox Interactive CEO Fredrik Wester who, in an interview with Swedish website Privata Affärer (via PC Gamer), said that we’ll find out Bloodline 2’s launch date “reasonably soon” and that a 2023 release window is “absolutely not impossible.”
Bloodlines 2, the sequel to Troika Games’ 2004 cult classic Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, has had something of a tortured journey over the past few years. The project was originally being developed by Hardsuit Labs, which a release date penned for March 2020.
March 2020 came and went, and while a lot of things were released upon the world that year, Bloodline 2 wasn’t one of them. In August of that year, the game’s lead writer Brian Mitsoda and creative director Ka’ai Cluney were both let go from the project. Two months later, Bloodlines 2’s senior narrative designer Cara Ellison also departed.
As you’d perhaps expect after all of that upheaval, this version of the game was nearly cancelled – almost permanently, until Paradox handed the project over to another, still unknown developer.
