Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines 2 is a good game. I said it and I stand by it. Its biggest problem, as PC Gamer's Toreador-in-the-streets, Venture-in-the-sheets Joshua Wolens so accurately put it, is the title: Calling it Bloodlines 2, rather than anything else that would safely distance it from the legendary original, was a massive self-inflicted kneecapping. That's not to say there aren't legitimate complaints to be made about the game, because there absolutely are, but there's no doubt in my mind that Bloodlines 2 would've been received far more warmly if it hadn't hitched its wagon to a game people just refuse to be normal about.
Anyway, now I've got that off my chest, this is what we're actually here for: Paradox and The Chinese Room have rolled out the Bloodlines 2 roadmap for 2026, laying out what's coming over the course of the next year. If your immediate reaction to this news is, "Bloodlines 2 has a roadmap?" the answer is yes it does: Paradox may not have been super-happy with how Bloodlines 2 sold, but it's sticking with the game to the very end.
