Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 just released to middling reviews (or in the case of our Bloodlines 2 review, pretty bad), and it seems that gamers might be feeling the vampire fatigue. Next year, the much anticipated Marvel's Blade is scheduled for release, so it's a difficult environment in which to release your new vampire-based game. "We have different creatures of the night," Tomaszkiewicz explains. "We want to tell [a] story with the vampires, not the story about [only] the vampires." By expanding the story and gameplay outside of vampire lore, The Blood of Dawnwalker can be not like the other vampire games. The Blood of Dawnwalker: Everything we know so far The Blood of Dawnwalker "isn’t that big" because its small team with Witcher 3 vets would rather prioritize "layers" and "didn't want to make an open world for, like, 400 hours" "You could go and keep beating up people on top of buildings" forever in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, but devs say "we're not making GTA" because even vampires need to sleep There is one inspiration that he hopes will help his game stand apart from the crowd. "Dishonored was one of the inspirations," Tomaszkiewicz says. "We wanted to create [a] way of exploring for the vampire, [that's] as open as [Dishonored]." He wants to create the freedom of feeling that Dishonored did, but admits it won't be the same. "It's not that you can enter everywhere," Tomaszkiewicz admits. "But it's so open that you should feel almost total freedom." Not quite the vampiric imsim we were all hoping for, then. The Blood of Dawnwalker "isn’t that big" because its small team with Witcher 3 vets would rather prioritize "layers" and "didn't want to make an open world for, like, 400 hours."