Well, this sucks but it is inevitable. Battle royale game Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt will shut down its servers on April 28, 2026.
After the date, the game will be rendered completely unplayable, given it is an always-online multiplayer title. All accounts and gameplay data will be deleted “in accordance with GDPR and/or equivalent.”
Token purchases (microtransactions) has since been disabled as part of this winding down process.
Bloodhunt, developed by Sharkmob, launched back in 2021 back when battle royales were in vogue. The game eventually ended active development in 2023, never leaving Early Access. Currently, the devs are working on Exoborne, an extraction shooter.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodhunt draws from the rich world of the World Of Darkness IP. Set in Prague, the game sees the normally discreet vampires enact the aforementioned Blood Hunt, a decree among vampires that follow the Camarilla where vampires must be hunted down and killed. Which lends itself naturally as a battle royale. Also, the city, like it was the whole in 2021, is under lockdown.
Bloodhunt brilliantly draws from the Vampire: The Masquerade and the greater World Of Darkness IP, but alas, it was not meant to be, as the well of battle royales have been sucked dry only leaving a few to still stand victorious: the ever-growing Fortnite, PUBG (which found a big audience in the mobile space via PUBG Mobile), Free Fire (also a mobile battle royale popular in Southeast Asia and Latin America) among such.
In more positive news, the sequel to Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines, after going through a tumultuous development including scrapping the whole game after changing development team, which then also having to go through multiple delays, is out now.
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