Tarnished Blood

Tarnished Blood is a single-player game about leading a team of up to four hunters into the Dome to fight its monsters. You choose from four tribes, each with distinct abilities and playstyles, and equip your warriors with weapons and armor that unlock skills. Battles use a Timeline: place and reorganize actions to create combos and evade attacks, then manipulate or reverse time to correct mistakes and protect your hunters.

The Dome and its hunters

The world is home to bloodthirsty Maultigores in the valleys and deceitful Celestials that control the space-time continuum. Before each skirmish, you resolve events that can affect the coming battle. You can weigh your hunters’ stats, traits, traumas and genders when choosing a path, and tailor your tribe’s abilities to their strengths and weaknesses.

Hunting and settlement events make each playthrough change. Hunters can acquire different skills, weapons, traumas and permanent body modifications, including petrification, broken jaws, severed limbs and wooden arms. These changes also affect your strategy. You can focus on nurturing hunters and succeeding at the Ritual of Seven Senses to produce healthy offspring, or take a more aggressive approach to increase damage and break more bones.

Hunt and build

In the Dome, you fight gargantuan bosses, including mutated chimeras, Celestrials and twisted living jungles. Each boss has multiple forms with different attack patterns, skills and tricks. Salvage resources from fallen enemies and bring bones, guts, fat and hide back to your village, which sits beneath the Protector’s canopy. Use them to craft items, unlock skills and expand buildings that sustain the Tree’s defensive field.

Campaigns and discoveries

Each campaign provides over 10 hours of gameplay. Completing one unlocks distinct items, events, abilities and bosses for subsequent playthroughs, while run customization lets you shape each attempt. Bonus materials and item descriptions contain hidden lore about the Dome and the Ancient One.

The game features an extensive system of traits, wounds and traumas, along with time control and permanent body modifications. Its music is composed by Patryk Scelina.