- There's a Bloodlines story you haven't played, and it's one of my favorite VTM games ever made - 19 December 2025
"It's been 15 years since I played that damned game," reads the bright blue text as the sun sets over a sleepy Santa Monica. The game in question is Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines , Troika's 2004 World of Darkness epic that established a gold standard not just for TTRPG-inspired titles, but VTM videogames as a whole. But that's not what I'm playing right now, nor am I stalking the streets of Seattle in Bloodlines 2. No, this is a side-scrolling RPG that you've probably never heard of. Welcome to Santa Monica By Night. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: VTM Bloodlines 2 might be amazing, but I just want a remake Before Bloodlines 2 sink your teeth into the Steam original, 50% off Forget Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion, I'm playing the OG vampire RPG
- RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines looks like witchcraft - 21 July 2025
modder named Safemilk has been working on an RTX remaster mod for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines that has just reached version 0.2 and had its first public release, an 8.5GB download that makes the 2004 RPG look so gorgeous I suspect I've been hit with Dementation... Read more.
- Former BioWare lead writer says the best level in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines gave him 'ammunition' to argue that story can be just as engaging as combat - 28 May 2025
You ever get sick of trashmob fights? I admit it: sometimes I just want to run from A to B without massacring half a village, cutting down group after group of bandits, goblins, and imps who have only really been placed there to stop me from getting bored... Read more.
- Fallout co-creator Tim Cain hasn't made sequels to his other cult classic RPGs because they didn't sell well: 'You should have bought it' - 16 December 2024
Tim Cain's storied career includes a bunch of what are likely some of your favourite RPGs, including the first two Fallouts and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines. Some of the games he worked on became huge mainstream successes, while others—particularly the games developed by his RPG studio, Troika—became cult classics. And people are always asking him why he never made follow-ups to the latter... Read more.
- Can't wait for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2? Sink your teeth into the prequel mod instead - 11 December 2024
I don't know what to make of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 any more. After all the delays and development resets the game's been through, the long-anticipated sequel has landed on an identity between Dishonored and an action-RPG . That sounds great and everything, though at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the game launches in as rough a state as Stalker 2, or indeed the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines... Read more.
- Can't wait for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2? Sink your teeth into the prequel mod instead - 11 December 2024
I don't know what to make of Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 any more. After all the delays and development resets the game's been through, the long-anticipated sequel has landed on an identity between Dishonored and an action-RPG . That sounds great and everything, though at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the game launches in as rough a state as Stalker 2, or indeed the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines... Read more.
- VTM Bloodlines 2 might be amazing, but I just want a remake - 1 September 2024
It's Tuesday afternoon, just ahead of Gamescom Opening Night Live. Behaviour Interactive has just announced that The Boulet Brothers are coming to Dead by Daylight. Our news team is prepped and ready for an ONL watch party. Spirits are oh so high. Then, Paradox announces that it's delaying Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 . "Everyone make sure Lauren's OK," my colleague Will says. Lauren was very much not okay. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Before Bloodlines 2 sink your teeth into the Steam original, 50% off Forget Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion, I'm playing the OG vampire RPG Paradox is teasing its new Vampire: The Masquerade game
- A new mod aims to remaster 5500 voice lines from cult classic RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, cleaning up the audio and fixing volume levels 'with extreme care for the source material' - 2 June 2024
modder rather descriptively named TheAudioService has just come out with a mod to improve the audio quality in one of my very favorite games, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. The pack purports to improve volume levels and quality across 5,500 different voice lines in V:TM-B... Read more.
- See some lost alpha footage of the original Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines - 20 May 2024
Wesp, who you may know as the heroic modder behind the unofficial patch for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, has been on an uploading spree, providing us with a bunch of lost Bloodlines footage via his YouTube channel ... Read more.
- Fresh Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 trailer offers the first proper look at gameplay - 31 January 2024
Good news, people who were around in 2004, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has finally given you and the rest of us a proper look at what its gameplay looks like. After it was originally announced back in 2019 and reannounced at PAX last year , people who’ve been waiting for a sequel to Troika Games’s classic RPG about dark and gritty vampires doing dark and gritty things in dark and gritty Los Angeles have been chomping at the bit to see more of what The Chinese Room has been cooking. The answer is vampires, in case you were wondering. You can get a look for yourself at what you’ll be in for when you fire the game up in the trailer and extended gameplay reveal that’ve just dropped via the official World of Darkness YouTube channel, which surprisingly isn’t dedicated to My Chemical Romance fancams. If you’re looking for big takeaways, the verdict from our resident enjoyer of the…
- Before Bloodlines 2 sink your teeth into the Steam original, 50% off - 1 November 2023
Wondering what made the original Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines so special, so much so that the sequel persisted through development hell? Now's your chance to find out, with the first Bloodlines 50% off on Steam. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Forget Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion, I'm playing the OG vampire RPG Paradox is teasing its new Vampire: The Masquerade game Paradox's new 'dating app' could be the start of a new Vampire: The Masquerade ARG
- Forget Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion, I'm playing the OG vampire RPG - 7 September 2023
There are a thousand and one vampire games out there, yet none have the allure of Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines . Sure, by modern standards it's pretty janky and looks its age (and then some), but the game has withstood the test of time and earned its place among the best RPGs. With a potential Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 release date on the horizon after an almost 20-year wait fraught with turbulent changes in developer, numerous lengthy delays, and rumors that the game had actually been canceled, I've asked myself again and again how it can continue VTM's legacy and inject some new (eternal) life into a withering videogame franchise. The answer lies in Bloodlines' roots, and if Bloodlines 2 draws upon them, it could be the best vampire adventure that we've seen in years. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Paradox is teasing its new Vampire: The Masquerade game Pa…
- The mod that saves one of the best RPGs ever made quietly added a mini-campaign where you play as the 'good guys' - 27 August 2023
It's always a good time to play Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, but especially now⁠—Halloween season is practically upon us, and VTMB's expansive, open-ended roleplaying makes a great follow-up to Baldur's Gate 3 ... Read more.
- I've got even more respect for the modders restoring Bloodlines' cut content after watching these videos about the Unofficial Patch - 30 July 2023
When I first read about the Unofficial Patch for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines , there was division between those who embraced it wholeheartedly for fixing so many of the problems holding back this RPG masterpiece, and those who tempered their praise with complaints about its over-reach. The Unofficial Patch restores cut content as well as fixing bugs, you see, and some of what it resurrects from the grave isn't up to the standard of the rest... Read more.
- Tim Cain reveals proposed sequels to Vampire – Bloodlines: 'We were planning a trilogy, which I forgot' - 14 May 2023
Games industry veteran Tim Cain, the creator of Fallout and co-founder of Troika Games, has a YouTube channel where he reveals never-before-seen RPG history . It's a regular source of fascinating info for those of us who love the games he's worked on, and one of his previous videos discussed Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines' cut multiplayer component . In that video, Cain explained he joined Bloodlines late, as a programmer who was mostly responsible for boss AI. That means we have him to thank and/or blame for the fights against the wereshark hengeyokai and the Sheriff... Read more.
- How to have the best Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines experience today - 13 October 2022
Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines was blatantly unfinished when it came out in 2004. Some of the staff at Troika Games scrambled to get a patch together as the studio was closing, but even after that there was still work to be done... Read more.
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has aged like fine wine - 11 April 2022
The year of 2004 was an auspicious one for videogames. In fact, it was, perhaps, a bit too auspicious for Troika, a small CRPG development house headed by ex-Black Isle veterans... Read more.
- Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines fan patch has hit version 11.1 - 7 March 2022
Perennially topical cult classic RPG Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has a thriving mod scene, and the one essential addition is the VTMB Unofficial Patch, a community-driven effort that's truly impressive in scope. Just this year it hit version 11.0 and, now, 11.1... Read more.
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong delayed into next year - 7 July 2021
Publisher Nacon has delayed the release of Vampire: The Masquerade - Swansong. Originally scheduled to arrive this year, the narrative RPG is now due to launch on Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PS4, PS5, and PC in February 2022. Swansong, which was announced back in 2019 , is the work of Big Bad Wolf, the studio behind episodic adventure game The Council, and places players into the shoes of three different vampires, each belonging to a different clan within the vampire sect of The Camarilla. "Weaving between their intertwined tales," Nacon explained at the time of Swansong's reveal, "the player has to confront the different points of view of his characters to unravel fact from fiction. With whispers of conspiracy, murder and power struggles, the player must protect his clan, discover the truth and above all enforce the Masquerade, the vampire law designed to conceal the existence of creature…
- It's a shame the new Vampire: The Masquerade battle royale game is so shooty - 10 June 2021
So there is a big Vampire: The Masquerade video game coming out this year after all. Except, it's not an RPG like Bloodlines 2 , it's a free-to-play battle royale. I know that sounds strange but I've played it, and it's better than I expected. It's a pretty impressive production, actually. It has a studio of around 200 people behind it: a newish Swedish studio called Sharkmob, led by Ubisoft Massive (The Division) veterans. And they've made something dark, handsome and atmospheric. Something entirely in keeping with what you expect from a Vampire: The Masquerade game. The game goes like this (and 'this' will be quickly familiar to anyone who's played a battle royale game, which at this point is probably everyone?): you queue solo, or in teams of three, for a big fight in the locked-down city of Prague at night. Exactly how many players can fight together isn't finalised yet. The current…
