Bloodthief

Released: Sep 22, 2025
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Last updated: 14 Sep 2026, 09:44 GMT

Updates & announcements

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29 Aug 2026Developer post
Leaderboard Update! (Patch 1.2.5)
Hey everyone! Patch 1.2.5 brings a few new major updates to leaderboards! Weapon Leaderboards Now you can compete with your favorite sword and be recognized in the leaderboard! Level leaderboards now can be broken out by weapon so you can see the top players for each weapon in ea
24 Jun 2026Developer post
Patch 1.2.4 - Use your own textures for custom maps!
Hey everyone! This update adds custom texture support for custom maps. This feature has been in beta for a few weeks and already people have done some awesome stuff - here are some cool screenshots from stuff people have posted in the discord: Map by Ruin: Map by Spawnshade: Map
Hey everyone!
This update adds custom texture support for custom maps. This feature has been in beta for a few weeks and already people have done some awesome stuff - here are some cool screenshots from stuff people have posted in the discord:
Map by Ruin:
Map by Spawnshade:
Map by Ruin:
You can learn about custom maps (including how to use your own textures) here: https://blargis.github.io/bloodthief_docs/mapping-guide/
Also if you have any questions about mapping, join the Discord!
Here are the other patch notes:
Added the ability to publish "map packs" such as hub-maps and sequences of maps to workshop
Made the boss more speedrun-able
fixed winding halls of nox out-of-bounds exit
fixed some bad textures in DirectX
fixed a crash that could happen with DirectX
Thanks for playing everyone! More stuff to come!
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23 Feb 2026Developer post
Patch 1.2.2 - Save Slots, "Full Game Run" timer, and more!
Hey folks! Medium-sized update coming your way - mainly with quality of life stuff and bug fixes. Here are the release notes: New Stuff Some new features that should make Full Game runs, New Game runs, and just replaying in general easier and more fun Save slots: Now you can choo
Hey folks!
Medium-sized update coming your way - mainly with quality of life stuff and bug fixes. Here are the release notes:
New Stuff
Some new features that should make Full Game runs, New Game runs, and just replaying in general easier and more fun
Save slots: Now you can choose between 1 of 3 save slots from the main menu. The new button is in the top left of the main menu.
"Full Game Run" timer: Now each save slot tracks the total play time associated with that save slot. You can display this in real time below the normal run timer by enabling it in the user settings.
Add a mappable action for "Ground Slam (Keep Momentum)" for those that would prefer this over the default "quick tap" behavior of ground slam
Note: It is not mapped to any button by default so if you prefer this option over the default you need to map it to a button in the controller settings
Final boss got some major tweaks to help the arena react and move along faster if you're speedrunning it
Update LBs with new badges from competitions
Bug Fixes
Fixed bug where you could ground slam through damage areas sometimes (most commonly seen in final boss)
Prevent double collection of the same key
Fix some Japanese translation errors
Custom Maps bug: Fix bug with vt_trigger_area `trigger_dependency_count` parameter
5db reduction of stone sword sound
Fixed 1-6 end level area being too low
Made lava more robust
Now it will continue to hurt you as you stand in it which should fix issues where you could find yourself able to stand inside lava
the game will attempt to "depenetrate" you from the lava to prevent clipping through the map scenarios
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13 Nov 2025Developer post
Patch 1.2.1 - Some bug fixes and improvements to Custom Maps!
Improved controller support: Now triggers can be remapped Made it so long User Map names don't break the level select Added the ability to add Map tags from the map settings pause screen (See the Bloodthief Workshop for featured tags, including the one for the ongoing map jam, Sp
Improved controller support: Now triggers can be remapped
Made it so long User Map names don't break the level select
Added the ability to add Map tags from the map settings pause screen (See the Bloodthief Workshop for featured tags, including the one for the ongoing map jam, Speed Jam: Gherisa Swamplands)
Fixed custom checkpoint spawn positions in custom maps
Fixed global leaderboards in custom maps
Added new map setting: "Continue Music on Restarts" which makes it so if you hit "Restart Map" the music just keeps going as opposed to restarting. Useful when you're grinding top times and don't want to hear the same 2 second beginning of a song over and over
Fixed bad geometry in Oex Labor Bell
Now the creator name is displayed in the Workshop Maps select menu
Fixed bug where a lava that is entirely clip brush caused a crash
Made it so in Custom Maps you can use light_color or key_color in byte mode (RGB 0-255) or float mode (RGB 0-1)
Added the ability to delete your own custom maps from the level select
Fixed weapon switching bug that caused a crash
Added the ability for mappers to set which areas are "navigable" which will make navigation in custom maps more optimized.
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06 Nov 2025Developer post
Custom User Maps + Steam Workshop Update is OUT NOW!
Hey Everyone! Bloodthief's Steam Workshop is now live and you can now play custom user maps with the click of a button! How to Play Custom Maps Go to Bloodthief's Workshop page in the Community Hub ( here's the direct link ). Select any map in the items tab and subscribe to it. O
Hey Everyone! Bloodthief's Steam Workshop is now live and you can now play custom user maps with the click of a button!
How to Play Custom Maps
Go to Bloodthief's Workshop page in the Community Hub (here's the direct link).
Select any map in the items tab and subscribe to it.
Open the game, hit play, and go to the "Workshop Maps" tab - you should see subscribed maps there and can play them!
How to Make Custom Maps
Just watch this video tutorial that I made. There's ~10 minutes setup required but it is worth it because you are literally setting up the exact set of tools I used to make the main game's maps, so the possibilities are limitless! For those that want to dive further into the details, here is the written guide / wiki
Leaderboards in User Made Maps
Popular user made maps will get blessed with a leaderboard. I'll be monitoring the Workshop and adding Leaderboards proactively but if you want to request one for your map just hop in the discord and ask in the "Leaderboard Requests" channel. Discord link is here.
Map Jams
There's map Jam going on right now! Check it out on the Discord
Check out some of the Community Maps that have already been Made!
Oldborg by Fraph (Play it here)
"You are trapped in the Oldborg stronghold and need to find a way out. Uncover the secrets of Oldborg and escape before it consumes you!"
Goo Factory by Motion (Play it here)
"Explore the secrets of the goo."
Arcana Palace by Ruin (Play it here)
"my first full game map, really was just messing around with new stuff, main castle layout inspired by oex factory kinda a bright level n might take a sec to load mb theres a lot of stuff"
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17 Oct 2025Developer post
Patch 1.1.0 - Custom Blood Colors, Arachnophobia Mode, and More!
Hey Everyone! New patch coming your way, here's what is new: New Features Arachnophobia mode - can enable in settings Change the color of blood to whatever color you want! - can enable in settings. Bug Fixes and Tweaks Slightly Increased air control for Dawnblade, Stone Sword, Si
Hey Everyone! New patch coming your way, here's what is new:
New Features
Arachnophobia mode - can enable in settings
Change the color of blood to whatever color you want! - can enable in settings.
Bug Fixes and Tweaks
Slightly Increased air control for Dawnblade, Stone Sword, Sire's Blade, Godslayer, Godsteel, Maila's Kiss, Sliver of Darkness, Combobulator, Glurm's Club
Increased the Combobulator detection range
Added a level select button to the pause screen
Fix bug where the Life Harvester interacted weirdly with the skulls in the boss battle
Made the Life Harvester dash cost 0.3 blood
Made it so the boss moves faster if you're moving faster
Fixed a bug where you could dash through lava or goo
Fixed bug where water effects could persist even after exiting water
Increased the max time that level intros stay on the screen so they don't disappear when you're still reading
Fixed bug where tooltips over various artifacts were all messed up sometimes in the level select
Added a drop shadow to the In-game timer so it's more readable
ALSO
For those of you that don't know, I'm also planning a feature where people can make their own custom maps using Trenchbroom (a popular free software for making levels in games), and share / play other people's maps via Steam Workshop. Stay tuned for that feature, it's coming soon! In the meantime, you can beta test an early version of it, details are on my Discord Server.

Thanks!
- Blargis
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09 Oct 2025Developer post
Patch 1.0.9 - Some balance stuff + more bug fixes!
Hello! Today's patch is small but I think it will improve the experience substantially in 2-5 and 3-9. Added a tutorial book in Buried Keep that teaches you that air dash takes longer to charge when targeting big enemies Map 2-5 Tweaks Added some launchpads that can save you in a
Hello! Today's patch is small but I think it will improve the experience substantially in 2-5 and 3-9.
Added a tutorial book in Buried Keep that teaches you that air dash takes longer to charge when targeting big enemies
Map 2-5 Tweaks
Added some launchpads that can save you in a pinch.
Made it so enemy waves progress faster if you take out the prior wave
fixed spot where you could clip through the ceiling
Reduced Pain Golem projectile damage (the purple projectiles)
Increased air control of Stone Sword and Dawnblade
Fixed bug where you could get killed by an invisible enemy in S-1
Thanks!
Blargis
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07 Oct 2025Developer post
Patch 1.0.8 - new Overall Rank Leaderboard + Korean translation!
Hey everyone! This patch contains a bunch of bug fixes and a new "Overall Rank" leaderboard that combines your ranks from each level and gives you an overall rank. Just a heads up, this leaderboard only updates once per day. Here are the patch notes! New Stuff Added "Overall Rank
Hey everyone! This patch contains a bunch of bug fixes and a new "Overall Rank" leaderboard that combines your ranks from each level and gives you an overall rank. Just a heads up, this leaderboard only updates once per day. Here are the patch notes!

New Stuff
Added "Overall Rank" leaderboard (accessible from main menu). It takes the average of all your ranks on all levels (Note: Only updates once per day)
Added a button so you can see a level's leaderboard from the level select screen
Added Korean translation
Added badges for SNF competition
Now Dawnblade has 2 starting Blood
Now Silken Edge has increased air control
Bug Fixes
Fix a whole bunch of broken level geometry, holes, and broken lavas (nothing that should impact any routing in this patch)
Fix hitbox of bow pickup in Cloud Castle being too small
Increase hitbox of all artifact pickups
Fix bug where you could wall jump on lava waterfalls
Fix bug where you could dash with Skrike after switching weapons sometimes
Fix issue with the Toothpick that made it so you could jump insanely high off of a ground pound bounce
Improved DirectX performance some more
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30 Sep 2025Developer post
Post Launch Patch 1.0.7!
Hey everyone! New patch coming your way. I'm still focusing on bug fixes right now, but will soon get to balance issues then after that will get to features. Thank you for being patient! Fix crash that could occur in in 3-9 when using DirectX launch option (Hopefully) fix steam c
Hey everyone! New patch coming your way. I'm still focusing on bug fixes right now, but will soon get to balance issues then after that will get to features. Thank you for being patient!

Fix crash that could occur in in 3-9 when using DirectX launch option
(Hopefully) fix steam cloud sync error that could pop up sometimes
Fix Rage Mushroom description giving the wrong hint
Fix a few minor restart-related issues with the last level
Fix clip that could allow you to skip to the end in 1-3
Fixed issue where you missed end game message if you quit to main menu after beating the game
Fix a trigger that would sometimes not fire in 3-2
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25 Sep 2025Developer post
Post Launch Patch 1.0.6!
Another small patch coming your way - More to come throughout the week! Major optimization: Fixed a bug that was putting a ton of load on the CPU. If you were experiencing consistent lag before, it may be much improved now Fixed a bunch of bad geometry that lead to being able to
Another small patch coming your way - More to come throughout the week!

Major optimization: Fixed a bug that was putting a ton of load on the CPU. If you were experiencing consistent lag before, it may be much improved now
Fixed a bunch of bad geometry that lead to being able to see through walls in some levels
Fixed random walls that hurt you in some places
Fixed random lavas that didn't hurt you in some places
Improve geometry in 1-4 so you can't clip through to the end
Fixed issue where lb times in Sandbox weren't submitting
Fixed a few broken item descriptions
Fixed issue where beating the Sandbox level showed you the end credits
Fixed issue where sometimes you submitted a strange and large time into the leaderboards
Thanks,
Blargis
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24 Sep 2025Developer post
Post Launch Patch 1.0.5!
Hello! First patch of a few coming your way. This one is just a few fixes. Here is what is fixed: Added a little message that will pop up if you have the bad AMD driver and need to update your driver Fix some bad geometry in level 3-5 Block the way behind you in 3-8 Fix lava bug
Hello! First patch of a few coming your way. This one is just a few fixes. Here is what is fixed:

Added a little message that will pop up if you have the bad AMD driver and need to update your driver
Fix some bad geometry in level 3-5
Block the way behind you in 3-8
Fix lava bug with the Stone Sword
Reduce stuttering in 3-4
Add the perk description to the "new weapon unlocked" modal in the end level screen
Fixed a bad trigger in 3-6 that would cause enemies to not spawn if you went around it on accident
Fixed a bad trigger in 2-1 that could be missed
Fix an Out of Bounds in 1-4
Fix broken description for Fire Slug
Fix key jail being squeeze-throughable in 1-9
Thank you all for the feedback and bug reports! I didn't get to everything in this patch but am working hard to get a few more fixes and optimizations in the game in the coming days so stay tuned.
- Blargis
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23 Sep 2025GamingOnLinux
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22 Sep 2025Developer post
Bloodthief is OUT NOW!!
Hey everyone, Bloodthief is out!!! Thank you all for the support over the last 2.5 years! What's Next? I'll be supporting the game and looking to the community to see what kind of features folks want added. Right now that looks like mapping / modding support. But let me know what
21 Sep 2025Developer post
Bloodthief Releases Tomorrow!!
Hey folks! Bloodthief launches in about 24 hours (Monday, Sept 22 at 10 AM PST), just wanted to do a post and give you all some key details PRICE Price will be: $19.99 USD with regional adjusted pricing + a 10% launch discount MOST IMPORTANT: UPDATE YOUR GPU DRIVERS AMD 25.8.1 Dr
Hey folks!
Bloodthief launches in about 24 hours (Monday, Sept 22 at 10 AM PST), just wanted to do a post and give you all some key details
PRICE
Price will be: $19.99 USD with regional adjusted pricing + a 10% launch discount
MOST IMPORTANT: UPDATE YOUR GPU DRIVERS
AMD 25.8.1 Driver had a number of issues with many games, Bloodthief included. If you currently have this driver installed, Bloodthief may not work! Update your drivers to the latest (right now that is 25.9.2).
Nvidia Driver 576.52 is also known to give a lot of folks issues. If you use Nvidia and have this driver installed, update your drivers!
If you're still running into driver issues launch the game with the DirectX 12 launch option.
WHAT'S IN THE GAME
31 levels in the main story
Over 20 weapons
Lots of new enemies
100+ secrets
22 achievements
Tons of surprises...
STEAM DECK / CONTROLLER SUPPORT
Yes Steam Deck and controllers are supported (steam gave it a "Playable" rating), BUT, I highly recommend playing with Mouse Keyboard as Bloodthief is very difficult with the joysticks. I'm thinking of adding some sort of auto-aim feature for joysticks post launch, drop me a message in the discussion boards or on discord if you want this!
BLOODTHIEF OST
It will be for sale soon after launch!
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEMO?
Demo progress will not transfer over, but the demo will remain available and the demo leaderboards will remain intact (though they will be completely separate from the full game leaderboards).
WHERE TO GET SUPPORT
Best place to get fast support would be the Discord Server, this is where the Bloodthief community is! But I'll be monitoring the discussion boards and the discord server for issues. You can also email me at [email protected]
That's all for now!
-Blargis
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29 Aug 2025Developer post
Bloodthief Releases September 22nd!!!
11 Jun 2025Developer post
Patch 0.5.2
Hi everyone, Just pushed patch 0.5.2, which just has a few fixes: Hopefully fixes the issue where the game gets stuck on the loading screen forever. Please let me know in the comments if this is fixed for you or if you're still running into the issue. NOTE: if the above wasn't wo
Hi everyone,
Just pushed patch 0.5.2, which just has a few fixes:
Hopefully fixes the issue where the game gets stuck on the loading screen forever. Please let me know in the comments if this is fixed for you or if you're still running into the issue.
NOTE: if the above wasn't work, many users have reported that they could get things to work by closing the other programs running on their computer, including background apps (ie. web browser, OBS, Discord, etc).
Fixes an issue that made sliding on slopes sometimes triggered this slide-stand-slide-stand jittering back and forth.
More patches are coming in the next few days, I just wanted to try and handle the most critical ones first!
Thanks,
Blargis
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09 Jun 2025Developer post
Demo playthrough Stream!
Doing a stream for Next Fest! Hop in and watch me try to get Godkiller medals in all the levels!
02 Jun 2025Developer post
Demo Update coming June 9th!
Hey Everyone! Bloodthief is participating in Steam Next Fest on June 9, and to celebrate I'll be adding a new level and a new sword to the demo. The new level is going to be a secret level that will require some secret hunting to find and unlock so you might want to spend some ti
06 Feb 2025Developer post
Official Bloodthief Demo is Released!
Hey Everyone! The official Demo for Bloodthief is released! Go play it! Details are below. How to play Just go to the Bloodthief store page on steam and hit the green download button. It's free! Demo Trailer Newest Devlog Where to follow the development of Bloodthief My YouTube C
Hey Everyone!
The official Demo for Bloodthief is released! Go play it! Details are below.
How to play
Just go to the Bloodthief store page on steam and hit the green download button. It's free!
Demo Trailer
Watch on YouTube
Newest Devlog
Watch on YouTube
Where to follow the development of Bloodthief

My YouTube Channel : I post ~monthly devlogs here where I talk about the status of the game and give a behind the scenes look!
Discord : This is where I mostly hang out, send, announcements, post updates, and all that stuff. Come say hi!
Twitter: I'm just starting to ramp this account up, so go give it a follow and help me out with that twitter algorithm!
Where to report an issue or bug?

Best way: Report it on the Discord Server.
Second best way: Email me at [email protected]
Third Best way: Steam community. I will see it but I don't check this as often as the above two!
Stay tuned for upcoming patches and events!
Cheers!
- Blargis
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12 Jul 2024Developer post
Playtest Patch 0.2.3: Quick Fixes
This patch is just fixing a few bugs that were caused by yesterday's patch. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs! Here are the notes: - fixed bug where if you restarted from the menu your player would freeze - fixed bug where respawn didn't work in the practice map - fixed cam

Updates & announcements

Weapon Leaderboards

New Leaderboard Website (bloodthiefgame.com)

New Stuff

Bug Fixes

How to Play Custom Maps

How to Make Custom Maps

Leaderboards in User Made Maps

Map Jams

Check out some of the Community Maps that have already been Made!

Oldborg by Fraph (Play it here)

Goo Factory by Motion (Play it here)

Arcana Palace by Ruin (Play it here)

New Features

Bug Fixes and Tweaks

ALSO

Hey everyone, Bloodthief is out!!!

What's Next?

Hey folks!

PRICE

MOST IMPORTANT: UPDATE YOUR GPU DRIVERS

WHAT'S IN THE GAME

STEAM DECK / CONTROLLER SUPPORT

BLOODTHIEF OST

WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DEMO?

WHERE TO GET SUPPORT

How to play

Demo Trailer

Newest Devlog

Where to follow the development of Bloodthief

Where to report an issue or bug?