'The Art of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2' Coming Later This Year from Dark Horse
- The Artbook Collector
- Jun 6
- 3 min read
Updated: Jun 7
June 6th 2025
*UPDATE 09:46pm 06/06/2025
The below gives a release date of November 18th, as this was conflicting with the retailer listings and book page on Dark Horse's website, I confirmed with the team that the correct date is in fact December 2nd 2025. The Upcoming page has been updated accordingly.
Another artbook is coming later this year from Dark Horse, who are taking over the video game space with their ever growing catalogue. This time they are teaming with developer The Chinese Room and game publisher Paradox Interactive to give an exciting look at the upcoming title, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.
Revealed today, The Art of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 will feature the concept art and insights behind the long-awaited game. The book is available for pre-order and set for release on November 18th 2025, coming as a hardcover with 192 pages. Being that this if from Dark Horse, expect a solid book with good binding and high quality paper. They are consistent in their format, making them a reliable publisher of artbooks, which would likely be why so many game companies choose to partner with them.
It's worth noting that online listings have the book as being released in December, but the press release and blog post from Dark Horse do confirm it is coming in November. Should this change, it will be updated on this site accordingly.
As expected, it will highlight the early and gore filled art for the characters and world of Seattle for the action role-playing game. The insights from the development team will also be of interest to a lot of fans, as the game has been in development for a long time and comes 21 years after the original.
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is set to launch in October, putting the artbook release just a month later. This was something that was becoming uncommon, but a few books have been doing this recently, perhaps an indication that things could return to how they were before the pandemic.
The game has been under an extensively long production period and saw The Chinese Room take over development in 2021, having been under Hardsuit Labs before that. The original release date of the game was March 2020, so it will make its way to players after 5 years of delays. In this time, it was reworked and rewritten, so it will be interesting to see how much of that will be covered in the art and commentary, if any at all.
The game is set in the World of Darkness universe, specifically on the tabletop role-playing game, Vampire: The Masquerade. Players are more likely to know about it from the preceding 2004 game, Bloodlines, which was released on PC and played in both first and third person. This follow up is presented in the same way and follows Elder vampire Phyre in the 21st Century, dealing with clans and conspiracy within the vampire society.
The Art of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is set to be an interesting book, one that will certainly join the collection here. Future updates and information for the artbook will be posted on this website and for anyone else that is interested in adding it to their collection, you can pre-order it here;
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