Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 has been delayed from its planned Fall 2024 window into the first half of next year, Paradox Interactive and The Chinese Room have announced.
Speaking in a video posted today, Matias Lilia, deputy CEO of Paradox Interactive, revealed that the project is ‘in a good place right now,’ and that the delay comes merely to give it some extra time in the oven.
Jointly with The Chinese Room, we have decided to extend development. This decision gives The Chinese Room extra time to spend on the game to deliver the best Bloodlines 2 they can. The game is in a good place right now, and Paradox and The Chinese Room have decided to prioritize polish over release date.
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Meanwhile, Alexander Skidmore, Creative Director, added:
Our team at The Chinese Room will make the most of the time to polish and ensure quality, while several of the team members will be ready earlier, allowing them to work on things we might not have had time for but are really passionate about. For example, we can now add more endings to the game, allowing it to be a more personal story. The additional time also allows us to address feedback from our playtests in our user research lab and also to address the feedback we’ve been getting from all of you in response to our Dev Diaries and videos.
Vampire: The Masquerade — Bloodlines 2 was originally in development at Hardsuit Labs until around February 2021, and suffered numerous delays until the studio was moved off the project and Paradox teamed up with a then-unknown studio. The Chinese Room was finally confirmed as the new studio behind the project in September last year, at which point Bloodlines 2 was set to launch in Fall 2024.