Game Information
Game Title: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
Platforms:
- PC (Oct 21, 2025)
- PlayStation 5 (Oct 21, 2025)
- Xbox Series X/S (Oct 21, 2025)
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 66 average - 43% recommended - 14 reviews
Critic Reviews
3DNews - Мила Пономарева - Russian - 5 / 10
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CNET - Oscar Gonzalez - Unscored
Across the board, Bloodlines 2 is just a disappointment. It should be oozing with style and gothic vibes that make you want to paint your fingernails black and put on some My Chemical Romance. Instead, it’s just the same thing over and over again that feels uninspired and unchallenging.
Dexerto - Jessica Filby - 3 / 5
Bloodlines 2 isn’t your typical RPG. It tells a great and complex story while taking you on an adventure where every choice you make affects the narrative, inside a city that feels alive with lovable and hateable characters. However, it could have done so much more to live up to its predecessor and TTRPG inspiration.
Everyeye.it - Fabrizio Cenci - Italian - 8 / 10
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GameGrin - Mike Crewe - 7.5 / 10
Whilst fans of the original may not like the stark difference between the two titles, Bloodlines 2 is still an engaging vampiric tale that, if given a chance, will sink its teeth into you!
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is a good example of the gap between ambition and execution. Despite an intriguing premise and well-developed main characters, the game ultimately feels too linear and repetitive, with limited player choice and shallow world interaction. Many of the lengthy dialogues have little to no impact on the story, side quests are dull and formulaic, and the world itself feels empty and lifeless. In the end, Bloodlines 2 comes across more as a walking simulator with light RPG elements than a worthy successor to the cult classic.
GameSpot - Jessica Cogswell - 7 / 10
Although Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 isn’t particularly ambitious or polished, it makes up for its faults with enthralling gameplay, gorgeous environments, a good story, and even better characters.
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IGN Spain - Rafa Del Río - Spanish - 7 / 10
With a unique first-person perspective and technical aspects that leave much room for improvement, Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 offers us a neo-noir adventure set in 21st-century Seattle. As an Ancient newly awakened from his slumber, we must investigate a dark plot while negotiating with the clans and increasing our influence in the city. As if that weren’t enough, we’ll have the help of a Malkavian inspector, Fabien, whose consciousness survives in the mind of our protagonist. Past and present come together in an investigation in which no character is above suspicion
Loot Level Chill - Mick Fraser - 6 / 10
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will certainly appeal to the die-hard fans of its world, thanks to the story. Unfortunately though, it commits the cardinal sin of simply not being fun enough to play, and that’s a difficult coffin to clamber back out of.
PlayStation Universe - John-Paul Jones - 7.5 / 10
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 might not be the sequel that folk from 2004 wanted for their game, but it is the game we’ve got. Though largely sparse open world and technical issues are hardly encouraging, the beautifully evocative interior environments, surprisingly engaging traversal and combat mechanics, together with its neatly unconventional ‘buddy movie’ conceit which sees two vampires attempting to inhabit the same body and each with their own motivations, makes Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 a good deal more intriguing than I originally expected it to be.
Push Square - Robert Ramsey - 4 / 10
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is a shambles. Its best qualities are always short-lived, buried deep beneath the frustrations of non-existent RPG elements, extreme padding, and diabolical technical issues. Beyond the promise of its opening hours, this is a tragic misfire of a game.
The Nerd Stash - Julio La Pine - 7 / 10
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 could have been an excellent vampire experience, but its uninspiring gameplay, technical issues, and frustrating combat leave it in the dark.
TheSixthAxis - Steve C - 7 / 10
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is a good game, but one that’s held back by the expectations of being a sequel to an all-time classic. If you can step away from the baggage of the Bloodlines title, there is a lot here to enjoy in terms of narrative and atmosphere, though the combat is too repetitive.
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Just play the first game with the Unofficial Patch. You will have a better time.
Bloodlines 2 had been in development hell for years and had two dev teams worked on it. Being bland is a miracle.
Well, it’s as we feared. the story seems to be not bad but every review calls the gameplay boring and uninspired.
The originals gameplay was boring and uninspired as well. This game really stood with its story and RPG elements not its combat and gameplay.
The combat was honestly subpar (especially guns), but the quest design, character design, conversation and skill/clan system was super well done (I would argue these are critical elements for gameplay).
Honestly my greatest fear for the game is that it’s just bland. I can live with a flawed game (the original VTMB certainly could be called a flawed game itself after all.), but I think blandness would be the real killer for me.
So basically it has little to do with the original VTMB and what made it great (other than the brand name).
They should have just made a random vampire adventure game.
I think The Chinese Room makes solid games, but they have zero experience in immersive, complex RPGs.
I hope it gets good mod support
Guess it’s really Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2: The Masquerade instead.
