Paradox has launched its monetary assertion for 2025, in addition to for the fourth quarter of the 12 months particularly, and it appears like Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 wasn’t precisely the success the studio hoped for.
In a press launch summarizing the studio’s 12 months, Paradox studies a fall in income of 162% for the fourth quarter when in comparison with the earlier 12 months, in addition to an 80% drop for the 12 months as an entire.
Paradox does not particularly blame Bloodlines 2 for the 12 months’s disappointing determine, nevertheless it does level to “amortization and write-downs of [the game]” for the fourth quarter, so it is not an enormous stretch to think about that Bloodlines 2’s poor efficiency had a knock-on impact for 2025 as an entire, too.
Revenues for the quarter technically elevated, pushed largely by Paradox’s strategy-focused again catalog (in addition to the newly-released Europa Universalis V, first teased in Might final 12 months), however gross sales for the 12 months as an entire remained static when in comparison with final 12 months.
Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester admits that Bloodlines 2 “didn’t meet [the company’s] industrial expectations”, however he says his studio is now reassessing its useful resource allocation to make sure it focuses on the proper tasks in future.
Bloodlines 2 was launched in October following a really prolonged and troubled improvement cycle. The sport was met with criticism for its perceived lack of similarities to Troika’s unique Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, in addition to shallow gameplay and an absence of significant RPG parts.
The sport’s poor reception led Dan Pinchbeck, co-founder of developer The Chinese language Room, to recommend that the undertaking’s identify was ill-fitting, and that he and one other former Bloodlines 2 producer tried to persuade execs “to not name it Bloodlines 2”. Evidently, these efforts fell on deaf ears.
You may try Paradox’s newest monetary press launch right here if you wish to comb via some extra figures. Keep tuned for extra.
