Edited on: October 24, 2025

Posted on: October 24, 2025

Ka6uki

Games: 886 Reviews: 15

Good Vampire game, but not a Bloodlines

- Is it a good game? -- Yes, it's fun to play. The fighting mechanics rock, The power fantasy is amazing: you are an elder vampire who jumps, glides and climbs from roof to roof - yeah, it's truly amazing! It seems that you can be a fangbanger - hell yeah! But you need to work for it. >:D Feels pretty close to the source material, it's a good Vampire the Masquerade game and probably the most polished and pretty VtM game up to date (fanpatches aside). It runs smoothly. Sometimes it stutters when you open a door or something, typical traversal stutter, but nothing serious. My grafics card does approve it. The grafics rock, the game looks amazing, holy moly, the game even looks like a neon fever dream sometimes and the characters have a personaility and really good voice acting. And my, my, the lip sync is mesmerizing sometimes. Makes me stare at their mouths. ;-) The atmosphere is dense and you can feel the scenery a lot if you want to. Diving into it, playing immersed. - Being a vampire on the hunt for prey. Yeah, I am gonna play the fook out of this game. Could be my GOTY, beacause it is a good VtM game. But I wanna finish it first. The game has got problems though, see below. Choices in conversations seem to matter. You can be a brute or a diplomat. I am not sure yet if it's just an illusion of choice though. The dude, the voice in your in your head, Fabien, is actually a nice addition. I do enjoy his parts. I wonder what the mystery is going to be here. It's got detective parts to solve, these are fun and different. The devs put all the playable clans in the base game, after fans complained about the 20€ DLC to unlock Lasombra and Toreador, that is included now, thank you very much! <3 - Ok, what sucks? (no bloodsucking jokes below! haha) -- It's NOT a Bloodlines game. What a bummer! I wanted that. They should have called it differently. "VtM Nomad" maybe? I don't know. Just a different cool name. This game is is like a package of jelly candies with a chocolate logo on it. Both sweet but different. There are some easter eggs, pointing to Bloodlines 1 and they are fun, but feel a bit out of place. This is a different game. It's also not an RPG. Bloodlines 1 was based strongly on the tabletop game, but this game is rather an Immersive Sim genre with fighting perks to unlock and with NPC relationships. Maybe like Dishonored with a bit Batman Arkham City and a bit of Telltale adventures, plus this and that? Some sidequests are boring after a while and repetetive. Like: "collect enough of the specific bloodtype, to learn get a new vampire disciple", this is basically rinse and repeat all over again. Can be fun, if you are playing a bit immersive, but it's like the same to do everytime. The city is crowded with Anarch thinblood thugs. And they look like exzessively colorful dressed punks. These are not the Anarchs I remember. Feels a bit weird. Did the Anarchs change that much in from old VtM to V5? It's a very cold season with snow everywhere, but a huge crows of people are literally living on the streets during the cold nights. Not very realistic. There are no moving cars, trains or any other vehicles. They are there, but just as immovable assets. Also no underround train - dude, what a missed oppotunity! Well, maybe in a later part of the game? I am still in snowy Seattle, the starting area, after like 10 hours or so. -- So what? "Buy or die"??? -- (pun intended) Soooo, yeah. It's a good VtM action adventure game and actually I love it, but not a Bloodlines game. And that is very disappointing because it's got the branding to be a sequel. The name Blooodlines comes with certain expectations and these aren't fulfilled. I guess thats why people are review bombing the game. It's actually a pretty, solid, modern action adventure though. If you want a new VtM game to slam your fangs into: go for it. If you expect a new original Bloodlines CRPG with lots of black humor, multiple talents and all that jazz. then you will be disappointed. I wished Paradox released both games. This here AND the Brian Mitsoda sequel. that got dropped during development unfortunately. There can never be enough dedicated Vampire The Masquerade videogames, if you ask me.

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Edited on: October 27, 2025

Posted on: October 27, 2025

Nurgesh

Games: 103 Reviews: 3

It's kind of okay I guess

I pre-ordered Bloodlines 2 a long, long time ago so I was always going to play this even if it turned out like Duke Nukem Forever. This isn't terrible nor is it great. It's basically a walking sim and fist punch 'em melee combat sim stapled together. Rudimentary character customisation. Open world in looks yet extremely on rails. I don't hate this game but nor can I particularly recommend it. It's alright I guess. If you find this on steep sale check it out. It's absolutely not worth a full price though. Actually you know what, now that I think about it Observer from 2017 is a much better game in every way including graphics and immersion. Buy that instead.

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Posted on: November 1, 2025

Noktus-Kon

Verified owner

Games: 162 Reviews: 3

Vampire the Masquerade: Dishonored

As someone who didnt quiet enjoyed VtM: Bloodlines 1, I was way more interested into playing Bloodlines 2 because of the gameplay that resembles the one in Dishonored. But keeping the Bloodlines title feels misleading because it is not Bloodlines 1. The positives of this game are: 1, The story is good. Mix of a detective story(Fabien) like that of Deus Ex: Human Revolution / Mankind Divide but a bit narrowed down to make sure you don't fail. The part of Phyre is more like a Dishonored type but a bit more simplified. 2. The map is very interesting and quite small. Its fun gliding and running on roof tops, it kind looks like that of Batman: Arkham City. The negatives of this game are: 1. There are some parts of the game that are quite unfinished ( clipping through some walls) 2. Some bugs with traversal 3. The exploration being a bit dull with the items to pick up in the work 4. Side quests are repetetive 5. No manual saves Some personal complains that I have: This game really needs a small potion shop, cause finding them in the world or in the levels is kinda annoying. The game sometimes deals a lot of damage ( Even when you feed on the enemy during combat ) Overall, the game isn't bad but it should not have Bloodlines in its title, cause it is not Bloodlines.

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Edited on: October 26, 2025

Posted on: October 26, 2025

LillyRavn

Verified owner

Games: 223 Reviews: 18

Okay, so here goes

If you can't start the game in the GOG galaxy app launcher (it crashed to me with the paradox adds) then just go into the folder of the game, and find the game shortcut and just boot the game directly from there and don't bother with the galaxy one, because that one is trying to force adds on you which it cant handle and it crashes that out of the way... I went into this game aware that its no follow up to the original bloodlines. I knew this is not a RPG, so I kept an open mind, and got it anyway, because there are to few vampire games about, and I do love action, and an action adventure game this is. However, what bothers me in this game SPOILER ALERT: The parts where you stop playing as your character and instead play as the detective who is the voice in your head... his part of the game is so BORING... and SLOW:.. and not even important, as the mysteries he is solving, you already figured out anyway because its so obvious, and it just take your attention away from the fun... playing as fabian is not fun... its slow paced looking for clues... That aside, the parts where you play as YOUR character, is more fun, its pure action vampire combat stuff, and enjoyable.. so I can give this an average score.. but yeah, the game does have some charming bugs it shouldn't have, and some stutter in the open world

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Posted on: October 26, 2025

Shon31

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Games: 94 Reviews: 2

Not Bloodlines 2 but I liked it.

I was a huge fan of VtmB back in 2004. Having already been a player and GM of the tabletop game. This is a sequel in name only as far as the gameplay goes. But I get that for something like the Nomad a regular character sheet wasn't going to work so I am glad they did not go that route. It was a bit button mashy and it lacked options to use more traditional abilities from the game (both previous VtmB and the tabletop) and I did miss that. The story however, was in my opinion very good. I have been hooked on the lore and genuinely enjoyed the flashbacks to Fabien and his prior experiences. People complain about the "voice in your head" but I found it both intriguing and amusing. If there was one thing I would change about this or any future efforts it would be to tie it better to the actual table top game mechanics better and to deliver on a playstyle that would more accurately present what a player of the first game and the table top experience were able to provide. Yes I know that would take some of the uniqueness of the game away, but what I feel people are looking for in video game tie ins to table top experiences are the same as what Critical Role fans look for. Those who are unfamiliar are looking for a cheat sheet to how the game plays out and what they would expect from the game's World. While fans are looking for a faithful recreation or at least close tie in that can allow them to experience the world even when they can't get a game together themselves. Overall I gave points for the story and its presentation. It was a good Vampire the Masquerade story, but not a really close successor to the original. 4/5 stars and I hope they get a chance to play in this sandbox again. Maybe even start their own story series.

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