Developer posts and news about this game.
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
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 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
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
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! 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
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
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! 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
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
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
Slay the undead and let their blood fuel your movement and combat abilities in Bloodthief, the ultra-fast melee runner - out now. Read the full article here:
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
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
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
Doing a stream for Next Fest! Hop in and watch me try to get Godkiller medals in all the levels!
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
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
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