Blood Money

Blood Money is a 290,000-word interactive novel told entirely through text, with no graphics or sound effects. After your cousin murders your mother, the city’s most notorious crime boss, a struggle for control spreads through the criminal underworld. Your sisters Octavia and Fuschia both seek control of the family, while you alone have the blood magician’s power to summon and command ghosts. The ghosts hunger for your blood.

Choose your path

You can take over the family business, stay loyal, act alone, defect to a rival gang or reject a life of crime. You can play as male, female or non-binary, and as gay, straight, bisexual or asexual.

Ghosts and relationships

You can embrace your supernatural gifts and form connections with the dead, or banish ghosts to the underworld to protect the living. You can seek love or manipulate friends and allies, betray people who trust you or maintain loyalty to your family.

Family and city politics

You navigate volatile family relationships, resolving disputes, serving as a loyal lieutenant or preparing to backstab your rivals. You can fight a gang war for your family or defect to its rivals. In city politics, you can exploit the Mayor’s office for your own ends or use your connections to pursue a greater cause.