Developer posts and news about this game.
The Seven Rooms Every great moment now happens in a painted place. Succession is decided at the reckoning table...the old ruler presiding, scales at hand, your children's cards lying on the wood, rising to meet your cursor. The generation's ledger closes on the archive desk. The
fixed some general install errors
A refinement update for The Blood and the Hand. 2.2.0 made every generation a short, chaptered reign: the heir declares the course their own nature would take, and you either let that will stand or spend one of two Blood Marks to overrule a life. The system was right. The page it
The heir has a will. The bloodline has a longer memory. Since Bloodweight 2.0, we have pulled the game apart, found the struggle at its heart, and rebuilt the entire player-facing journey around it. You are not a ruler moving through a dashboard. You are the bloodline: the old wi
A polish-and-fixes pass on 2.0: Witness Mode reworked, several long-dormant strategic systems brought back to life, audio tuned, and a long tail of fixes. Witness Mode, reworked Now a toggle you flip before any run on the New Lineage screen and the World Builder instead of a sepa
Biggest update yet. A single bloodline no longer sits frozen in one age. It now crosses one hundred generations and six ages — from oath-fire and named keeps, through charters and registries, commerce and industry, to the public archive of the present. The page ages with the bloo
Bloodweight has always been about inheritance: what survives, what mutates, what gets written down, and what the next hand is forced to carry. With Bloodweight 2.0, we are pushing that promise much further. The next major update is being built around a stronger spine for the whol
-quick codebase migration to Love 12.0 from Love 11.5 -myriad of microfixes and enhancements to both visuals and performance
The big one: your ancestors now answer for their reigns — and they have faces. ✨ New The Skein paints your dead. Every heir's face is now recorded the day they pass — open the Skein and see the actual portrait of every hand your line has known, all the way back to the founder. Th
Big one this time: the Soul Teller finally steps into the game. ✨ New Read your chronicle right in the game. When a bloodline ends and you send it to the Soul Teller, you no longer have to hop to the website — the finished, written-out chronicle of your whole dynasty opens in-app
NEW • The Ledger — a whole new way to read your house. Your home screen, reimagined as an open book: the heir's portrait on one leaf, the chronicler's account of the generation on the other, your running tallies along the foot, and a single page-turn into the events. Completely o
emergency fix for scene transition bug introduced by my last update
A comfort, clarity, and stability pass across the whole book. • Witness Mode, your way — step in and out of the seat freely. Take the quill to write a turn yourself, then hand it back to your heir. • Found your line with confidence — name your founder and bloodline and see those
Bloodweight Demo Available Now The Bloodweight demo is available now on Steam. Bloodweight is a dynasty simulation about building a bloodline across generations. Marriages, rivalries, hidden traits, family strengths, weaknesses, and difficult decisions all shape the future of you
Event-card bottom-clip fix "Blood Desire" stuck-at-gen-6 fix — fulfilled Bloodline Dreams now clear from gameState on the next gen tick instead of sitting forever with a stale deadline. New dreams roll on the 10% spawn chance after clearing. Verified across 25-seed sim
→ The trait economy was adjusted → 33 achievements with hand-illuminated medallions → Per-era color identity across every scene → Native Linux + Steam Deck support → Witan, crucible, victory all got the ceremonial pomp pass → A Petition for Protection (and 8 friends of the silent
New player onboarding : gen-1 starts with a stripped-down hub centered on a single BEGIN EVENTS prompt, so the very first decision is obvious. Three tutorial events : the first generation now opens with three short authored events that teach how disposition, traits, and the witan