21 years after the cult-classic original, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is finally coming October 21

Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 was announced six years ago. This October 21, the sequel to the 21-year-old cult classic finally launches.

Vampire: The Masquerade, in its tabletop roleplaying form, exists only in my peripheral, beginning as something the theater kids in high school latched onto. Vampires aren't really my thing. Unless we're talking Serana from Skyrim. Or D&D's Curse of Strahd. Or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Or From Dusk Till Dawn. Or Bram Stoker's Dracula. Or...

...I suppose I am fond of the occasional vampire or two.

Which makes it strange that I've had the original Bloodlines game in my pile of shame for years now. I've hardly touched that dinner. I do believe our own John Yan and I will remedy that here shortly. It's been on his to-do list for some time as well. Indeed, 21 years later, we should see what all the cult-classic hubbub is about.

In Bloodlines 2, you play as dual protagonists Phyre and Fabien. Phyre has slept for hundreds of years, but wakes up in modern day Seattle to stalk the streets and cut through the vampiric tape to regain her long-lost powers. When Phyre sleeps during the day, you play Fabien in her dreams, who does his own form of waking up 100 years ago in 1920's Seattle. Fabien just might be investigating the most important murder of his life: his own.

Bloodlines 2 will release on October 21, 2025, on PC, Xbox Series X|S, and PS5.