Blightseed

Blightseed is a language-deduction roguelike in which you play as Blightseed, a powerful AI sent to stop an alien fleet before it reaches the solar system. You fight waves of enemy spaceships while learning their language and investigating their communications to discover their intentions and try to make peace. The more you understand, the more complex the conflict becomes.

Fight and learn

The game’s three connected loops are fighting enemy waves, deciphering their language and investigating their communication network. You face randomized dangers and events, retrying runs as you work out how to progress and beat the game. The story is presented in small pieces for you to assemble into the layers of the conflict.

Most of the action takes place in a radar-like area on the main HUD. You grab your ship with the mouse and slingshot it toward enemies, attacking by ramming them or using modules after you stop moving. You can build strategies around ramming power, melee attacks, shooting, bombs or status effects that control enemy waves. Updating attack modules and collecting modules, relics and items lets you create powerful synergies.

Decode the network

In the enemies’ communication network, you investigate what their language means to make progress. You learn by trying modules and interacting with enemies; greater understanding helps you plan your fights. Exploring the network also provides roguelike meta-progression, logic puzzles, deduction-based investigations and heart-to-heart conversations with the enemy.

Game content

• 3 stages to fight through
• 9 different bosses
• Over 50 modules
• Over 70 relics
• Around 200 glyphs to learn
• A deeper layer for exploring the enemies’ minds