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Games like Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2

If Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Vampyr, BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk and Blood Hunting — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, bleak and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 is an action RPG from developers The Chinese Room and publisher Paradox Interactive, launching in 2025 at $38.99 USD. Players control an elder vampire awakening after a century of slumber, navigating 21st-century Seattle using discipline powers, a fluid parkour system, and combat mechanics that reward mastery. The game offers dialogue choices, stealth options, and fast-paced combat, with supernatural abilities enabling creative approaches to obstacles and enemies. Reviewers describe the atmosphere as immersive and dark, noting the setting contributes to a bleak tone. Steam Deck support is confirmed as playable, and the game holds a 56 percent positive rating from over 6,120 Steam reviews.

About Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2: You are the Nomad — an elder vampire awakening from a century-long slumber, new to the modern nights. Trapped in your Blood is a stranger’s voice. This entity, a vampire detective known as Fabien, will be your guide to 21st-century Seattle.

2025ActionRPG38.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby The Chinese Room
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Steam players who put hours into Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Vampyr

    WHY THIS

    Shares stealth approach and an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Top pick for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    London, 1918. You are newly-turned Vampyr Dr. Jonathan Reid. As a doctor, you must find a cure to save the city’s flu-ravaged citizens. As a Vampyr, you are cursed to feed on those you vowed to heal.

    2018ActionRPG39.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Second-strongest match for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Behold the fierce blend of "Warriors" and "Berserk"!

    2017Action23.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Blood Hunting

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Blood Hunting is a first-person survival horror game by Holcomb Entertainment. A true survival horror experience that sets the stage on how dangerous revenge can be... if you can survive it.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure13.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. The Last Faith

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Ranked #4 for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Dive into the latest evolution of The Last Faith: a dark and gothic fusion of metroidvania and soulslike. Engage in merciless and precise combat with a huge range of weapons, firearms, and custom executions. Let nothing stand in the way of your journey to salvation.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure27.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. BloodRayne 2: Terminal Cut

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Ranked #5 for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Enhanced and updated for modern systems, this is the definitive edition of Rayne’s second adventure: a blood-soaked rampage of vengeance against the Cult of Kagan, a group led by Rayne's half-siblings that seek to carry out their father Kagan's legacy by creating a new era of vampire supremacy.

    2020ActionAdventureRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. DOOM Eternal

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.

    2020Action39.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. CARNAGE OFFERING

    WHY THIS

    Shares a dark mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Ranked #7 for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Ultra fast-paced sci-fi FPS where you battle waves of robots and genetically engineered creatures. Upgrade your arsenal, unleash explosive physics, and survive relentless combat.

    2022ActionAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Ranked #8 for Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    A new dark fantasy Three Kingdoms action RPG from Team NINJA, the developers of Nioh.

    2023ActionAdventureRPG23.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Reviewers of Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night.

    2007Action19.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Mass Effect (2007)

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Reviewers of Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    As Commander Shepard, you lead an elite squad on a heroic, action-packed adventure throughout the galaxy.

    2008ActionRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

    WHY THIS

    Shares an immersive mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Reviewers of Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    EPIC FANTASY REBORN The next chapter in the highly anticipated Elder Scrolls saga arrives from the makers of the 2006 and 2008 Games of the Year, Bethesda Game Studios. Skyrim reimagines and revolutionizes the open-world fantasy epic, bringing to life a complete virtual world open for you to explore any way you choose.

    2011RPG19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Dishonored

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Reviewers of Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal.

    2012ActionAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Reviewers of Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Inhabiting the World of Darkness, you must face a series of brutal confrontations with your nemesis Vukodlak, a powerful vampire lord.

    2017RPGViolent5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Vampirem

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Reviewers of Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Another story of Bloodlust, this time told through the eyes of Ravenblood; part Ghost... part Vampire... and 100% bada$$. His journey in search of lost strength and revenge will take you through the dark tombs and dungeons of the Vampirem.

    2021ActionRPG9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 at current Steam store prices.

  1. Terraria

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~74% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!

    2011ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Stardew Valley

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?

    2016IndieSimulationRPG14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Phasmophobia

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.

    2020ActionIndieEarly Access19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Lethal Company

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~74% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Left 4 Dead 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~74% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.

    2009Action9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Schedule I

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Hollow Knight

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. The Forest

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~49% under Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from The Chinese Room

Other recommendable Steam games by The Chinese Room, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Still Wakes the Deep

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2. Shares Action with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent and Dear Esther comes a new first-person horrorgame that will drag you to the depths of greed, power and madness. It will bury its snout into your ribs and it will eat your heart.

    2013ActionIndieAdventure19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Dear Esther

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

    2012IndieAdventureCasualDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Dear Esther: Landmark Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Dear Esther immerses you in a stunningly realised world, a remote and desolate island somewhere in the outer Hebrides. As you step forwards, a voice begins to read fragments of a letter: 'Dear Esther...' - and so begins a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.

    2017IndieAdventureFree To Play9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual19.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Little Orpheus

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    Another title from The Chinese Room, the studio behind Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

    This definitive edition of the multiple-award-winning hit by master storytellers The Chinese Room is remastered for the big screen and includes all bonus content of the original. A HERO WILL EMERGE!

    2022IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2

Does Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 run on Steam Deck?
Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 cost?
Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 is listed on Steam at 38.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 are Vampyr, BERSERK and the Band of the Hawk, Blood Hunting.
Who developed Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2?
Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 was developed by The Chinese Room and published by Paradox Interactive.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2.

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