Paradox has released its financial statement for 2025, as well as for the fourth quarter of the year specifically, and it looks like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 wasn't exactly the success the studio hoped for.
In a press release summarizing the studio's year, Paradox reports a fall in profits of 162% for the fourth quarter when compared to the previous year, as well as an 80% drop for the year as a whole.
Paradox doesn't specifically blame Bloodlines 2 for the year's disappointing figure, but it does point to "amortization and write-downs of [the game]" for the fourth quarter, so it's not a big stretch to imagine that Bloodlines 2's poor performance had a knock-on effect for 2025 as a whole, too.
Revenues for the quarter technically increased, driven largely by Paradox's strategy-focused back catalog (as well as the newly-released Europa Universalis V, first teased in May last year), but sales for the year as a whole remained static when compared to last year.
Paradox CEO Fredrik Wester admits that Bloodlines 2 "did not meet [the company's] commercial expectations", but he says his studio is now reassessing its resource allocation to ensure it...
