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BLOODWEIGHT

The Weight of Blood

Developer

adarkfable

Platform

Steam (macOS, Windows & Linux) · Apple App Store (iPad)

Engine

LÖVE 2D (Lua)

Status

Out now — Steam Early Access; iPad on the App Store

Bloodweight is a systemic gothic tragedy about entropy, inheritance, and the literal weight of history. You are the Ancestor — the collective memory of a bloodline. Guide your dynasty through 100 generations of triumph, ruin, and the slow accumulation of history's weight.

Every heir acts on their own personality. Every famine traces back to a specific choice. Every chronicle reads like a dark historical artifact. Bloodweight is a narrative generator that proves your failures are your own fault.

At a Glance

Key Features

Six ages, one bloodline — founding keep to the present

75-trait genetic engine with dominant/recessive crossover

World Builder — author the world, founder, estate, rivals, and rules

Living rival houses — each breeds an heir, with one sworn nemesis

AI literary chronicle generation with selectable Soul Teller voices

8-axis personality autonomy — heirs can refuse you

100-generation dynasty cap with era-native events and language

Witness Mode — autoplay a full dynasty from a seed

Procedural religion, culture, doctrines, and shadow lineages

A deep automated test suite — genetics, world, integration

The Studio

About adarkfable

adarkfable is one developer building Bloodweight from scratch. No backing, no investors — just the conviction that deep systemic games can come from anywhere. Published author, self-taught programmer, and the unglamorous hours of debugging serializers, balancing resource curves, and writing the test suite that keeps the genetics engine honest.

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