After nearly 10 years, Vampire: The Masquerade—Bloodlines 2's long and convoluted development is finally approaching its end. Its second and final DLC—The Flower and the Flame, releases next week, concluding one of the more dramatic industry sagas witnessed in the last few years.
Announced in 2019 after several years of development, Bloodlines 2 promised to be a full-blooded sequel to Troika's beautiful, if broken 2004 RPG. But a challenging initial development led to original developers Hardsuit Labs being booted off the project in 2021. The baton was picked up by The Chinese Room, which rebuilt the game from the ground up and released it last year.
