Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 continues Paradox's delay streak, now launching next year

Paradox Interactive’s streak of game delays continues with the news its Chinese-Room-developed Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is now targeting a release in the “first half of 2025”, rather than its previously announced “late 2024” window.

In a post on its website, Paradox called the delay a “proactive decision” derived from its commitment earlier this year to deliver “high-quality games” to its players. “Though [Bloodlines 2] is in a good enough place that we could have maintained our planned release window,” it wrote, “Paradox and The Chinese Room collaboratively decided to prioritise polish.”

Paradox says the delay will “create a quality assurance buffer, giving more time between testing and launch, ensuring we release the game when it’s ready.” More specifically, The Chinese Room will use the time to expand Bloodlines 2’s story, providing twice as many endings as its predecessor, and to “adjust certain areas” such as Fabien – the voice in its protagonist’s head.

The Chinese Rooms adds it’ll continue sharing Bloodlines 2 details with fans in the run-up to its revised released next year, with future topics of discussion set to include social feeding, Seattle’s different factions, some additional characters, and more. “It has been a long journey,” Paradox’s statement concludes, “but we’re near the final stages of development and will share the release date once we are confident with the game’s level of polish.”