Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 News

When I learned that the Toreador and Lasombra were to arrive in Bloodlines 2 as playable clans at launch, I audibly squealed. As a hopeless Toreador main on tabletop, being able to play my favorite clan sparked pure joy. Sure, Ventrue is a nice second-best, and the Tremere's bloody explosions are certainly fun, but there's nothing like luring your enemies into traps and taking down foes at lightning speed. The bad news, however, is that both clans are locked behind a paywall, and will be unavailable to those willing for fork out an extra fee. As you've likely guessed, that hasn't gone down well, and it looks like Paradox may be considering walking back its decision.

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Well, there you go. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 publisher Paradox look like they might be sticking a stake in their rather unpopular plans to sell two of the game's vampire clans as paid day-one DLC. I say "might be" because nothing specific's been committed to yet, beyond some nebulous making of "adjustments ahead of launch" in response to fan feedback on the gating-off of Lasombra and Toreador bloodsuckers.

In case you missed the announcement of these two clans being packed away into the £18.69/€21.99/$21.99 coffin of Bloodlines' Shadows and Silk DLC pack, it came right as the long-in-the-works RPG got a fresh trailer and what should hopefully be its final release date. The only ways to get the clans were to buy that pack on top of the base game, or splash out £74.99/€89.99/$89.99 for the premium edition.

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The Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 system requirements are pleasantly surprising, and will do very little to push most modern mid-range and high-end gaming PCs or laptops. However, we're still hoping for more detailed specs that cater to high-performance targets in the lead-up to release.

With the Bloodlines 2 release date confirmed at Gamescom, we can now officially get hyped. Our news editor, Lauren, also recently had the chance to play the game and wrote about it in her Bloodlines 2 preview. On the specs front, you won't need the best graphics card from our buying guide to play Bloodlines 2, but we're still yet to receive any performance targets from the developer, which is a key detail we hope to have soon.

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You really have to hand it to the publishers of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2. They are the absolute masters of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, the doyens of stepping on rakes, even as they near the checkered flag. The long-awaited RPG got a new trailer and what may actually prove to be the final release date at Gamescom Opening Night Live this week. The trailer was a feisty show of Dishonored-esque mayhem, and the hands-on verdicts I've read (save for stinky uncle Eurogamer) have been positive. Ours is forthcoming.

But then came the revelation that this much-delayed sequel to a quintessentially faction-led RPG from a company famous for downloadable add-ons would sell two of its vampire clans as day-one DLC. How we laughed! How we clutched our faces and chittered like gerbils! How we ran outside, begging for the moon to fall on our heads! Despair springs anew.

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After many, many years of waiting, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 seems to be on course to actually land in our laps this October. The long-awaited successor has been through developer changes and delays, but now it's real, we've played it, and it's set to launch in just a couple of months. Unfortunately, there's still controversy swirling, so we sat down with developer The Chinese Room at Gamescom 2025 to talk about the decision to lock two of its six playable factions behind a DLC paywall.

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