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BLOODWEIGHT

The Weight of Blood

Developer

adarkfable

Platform

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

Engine

LÖVE / Lua

Status

Out now — Steam and iPad

Bloodweight is a systemic gothic tragedy about entropy, inheritance, and the literal weight of history. You are the Ancestor — the collective pressure of a bloodline. Raise heirs with wills of their own, intervene when the house cannot afford their choice, and live with the succession that follows.

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

A dynasty measured in years, reigns, marriages, and successions

Founder customization — appearance, physical cast, and disposition

Player intervention — follow an heir's will or overrule it

The Witan — uncertain court matters with visible resolution and consequence

Heir's Choice — ask what the current heir would actually choose

75-trait genetic engine with dominant/recessive crossover

Living rival houses, political claims, matchmaking, and public standing

Emergency succession when the expected line fails

AI literary chronicle generation from named heirs and actual run data

8-axis personality autonomy — heirs can refuse, surprise, or expose the house

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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