#Blud

#BLUD is a gorgeously animated game that feels like you're playing through a 90s cartoon, and it's amazing on the Steam Deck.

While the small-town vampire apocalypse of #BLUD will fail to interest those looking for a serious dungeon crawler RPG, it will satisfy those longing for a simpler zany 90s cartoon experience.

Save your friends, fight off the vampire apocalypse, and survive the horrors of freshman field hockey practice in #BLUD, a delightfully zany animated dungeon crawler that blurs the line between action RPGs and hyperkinetic 90s cartoons. PC version reviewed.

The 90s were a beautiful time for frenetic cartoons, colorful characters, and vampire-slaying. Now here's a game that brings all this together with new-20s sensibilities and humor. It's a bloody good time.

I didn’t run into any major bugs though a few key gameplay systems were never explained and I had to stumble into the answer.  I thought my game had soft locked but it turned out there was a “find pink skull and put it on pedestal system” early on that showed up out of nowhere without any explanation.  Once I realized I could pick them up it was easy-peasy but I felt lost for about an hour before I did.

A messy release, and not just due to the blood. The bugs and combat issues drag down an otherwise stellar debut title. Hopefully only the beginning for a studio that understands what makes video games fun.

In a town infested with predatory vampires and equally predatory social media companies, who you gonna call? #BLUD is a rather appealing little hack-and-slash adventure game set in a vibrant cartoon world where you play as Becky Brewster, a young teenager trying to make friends at her new school while investigating mysterious vampire attacks. The sheer amount of charm delivered by its fluid and expressive animation style goes a long way towards making #BLUD an engaging experience even if its ...

Across its approximately 15 hours of playtime, #Blud offers a fun and straightforward dungeon crawler with a great aesthetic, but it is undone by some bugs that impact the flow of the game, along with some missions that just bring the fun factor right down.