Inheritance
WHO CAME BEFORE
The Line
A dynasty is a sequence of people, not a progress bar.
Reigns, relationships, heirs, cadet branches, and the choices that survived their authors remain visible in one continuous family record.
out now on steam & the app store (ipad)
Blood is currency.History is debt.
Found a house. Raise heirs who can obey you, refuse you, or surprise you. Intervene when the bloodline cannot afford their will, then let the Soul Teller write what your family became.
YEAR 1a bloodline begins in lived time
HEIRSchoose for themselves until you intervene
WITANcourt decisions resolved as visible wagers
RECORDevery named life reaches the Soul Teller
The Bloodline Clock
A house ages in years, not menu turns.
Founding begins in Year 1. Courtship, marriage, reign, death, and succession consume a life in order. The dates give every heir a place in the same history—and give the Soul Teller something more human than a generation counter to remember.
The Current Game
The player sees the wager.
Choices arrive as scenes, not dashboard notifications. The heir speaks, the player intervenes or lets the will stand, and the result earns enough time and ceremony to feel like history changing.
The Witan
The court is a wager, not a checklist.
Every matter now arrives with readable stakes and a visible ritual. Choose for the house, or press Heir's Choice and let temperament, doctrine, and circumstance decide what this person would actually do.
The roll, failure, success, cost, and consequence receive their own pageantry. The point is not merely to select an option. It is to feel the instant a private preference becomes the house's public history.
A Person Before A Successor
The heir has a life before the throne.
A face, a body, a mind, a temperament, a date, a partner, and a path they would take without you. The player is not assigning perks to a vessel. The player is deciding when a family may overrule a person.
Matchmaking comes before succession. Reigns have length. Emergency heirs carry visible context. The final chronicle can name not only what happened, but when—and whose unfinished life paid for it.
Watch
See the bloodline move.
Two cuts of the current game: one follows the player through the decisions; the other follows the record those decisions leave behind.
The House In Three Records
Nothing important lives in only one screen.
The person, the family, and the world keep different accounts. A choice can alter all three, and the final chronicle must reconcile them.
Consequence
WHAT THE HOUSE CARRIES
The Weight
History is not flavor text. It is pressure.
Temperament, doctrine, rivals, wounds, and accumulated decisions change what the next heir can attempt and what the court will permit.
Rival Houses
WHAT THE WORLD REMEMBERS
The Public Record
Other houses keep their own version of your story.
Claims, marriages, rivalries, and standing move outside the family. Your private intention becomes public history once another house answers it.
The Bloodline Has A Weight
Each face struck into the coin is another life the next heir did not choose—and cannot entirely escape.
What You Actually Do
Raise them. Rule through them. Remember them.
Bloodweight is built around a repeated human problem: an heir wants something, the house wants something else, and the player must decide which desire becomes history.
Origin
Make The Founder
Choose the face, physical cast, and general disposition of the first person who must carry the house name.
Heir Events
Follow Or Interrupt
Each heir reaches for a life of their own. Let their will stand, or spend the bloodline's authority to force another answer.
Council
Convene The Witan
Read the matter, weigh the odds, choose for the house, or ask what this heir would choose. Then watch the verdict arrive.
Time
Match. Reign. Succeed.
Partners come before successors. Reigns consume years. Death, emergency succession, and inheritance decide who receives the unfinished house.
Houses
Read The Court
Rival houses, claims, marriages, and public standing move together. The court is where private blood becomes political fact.
Chronicle
Feed The Soul Teller
Named heirs, reigns, verdicts, rivalries, and inherited consequences become the final literary account of what the player actually lived.
The Soul Teller
Your failure becomes literature.
At the end of a run, Bloodweight sends the complete dynasty record to the site: named heirs, dates, reigns, verdicts, partners, rival houses, and the long arithmetic of blame.
House Valdremor — the final account
Not heroes in the manner of songs, nor villains in the way of simple tales, but something more complex and terrible: a family that refused to die.
House Firemic — 38 generations
They were certain that what they were accumulating was legacy. What they were accumulating was weight.
House Ashvane — 30 generations
He built the wall and named it mercy. The plague, it should be noted, has no opinion about architecture.
The Ledger Is Open
Bring it a bloodline worth judging.
Bloodweight is out now on Steam and on the Apple App Store for iPad. The site is the living archive: chronicle generator, manual, press kit, comparison tools, and the place where extinct families keep talking.