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Forgotten Blood

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46%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:atmosphere, graphics
Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, music
63% User Score Based on 24 reviews

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About Forgotten Blood

Forgotten Blood is a single player open world role playing game with horror, fantasy, dark fantasy and violence themes. It was developed by Maruko and was released on June 29, 2026. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

Drawn by the call of an ancient crystal dagger, you journey into the Forgotten Valley, now ravaged by the Stone Plague. Forgotten Blood is a first-person action RPG inspired by King’s Field and the Souls series. Explore an interconnected world filled with secrets, danger, and hidden paths.

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63%Audience ScoreBased on 24 reviews
atmosphere4 positive mentions
gameplay3 negative mentions
  • Captures the atmosphere, mood, and exploration style of classic King's Field and early FromSoftware games, appealing strongly to fans of that style.
  • Beautiful, unique, and evocative art style and environment design with a compelling, provocative lore and setting.
  • Offers a challenging, rewarding experience for players who enjoy obscure, minimal direction gameplay and retro first-person RPG mechanics.
  • Numerous bugs and glitches including item pickup issues, softlocks, broken NPC interactions, poor hitboxes, and collision problems detract from playability.
  • Extremely clunky and unintuitive inventory management system especially troublesome with controller input, requiring tedious micro-management of items.
  • Combat and controls are rough, awkward, and sometimes unresponsive or unfair, combined with lack of modern quality-of-life features and user interface polish.

  • atmosphere

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    57% positive mentions, 29% neutral mentions, 14% negative mentions

    The game offers a unique and immersive atmosphere that effectively captures the tone of classic King's Field and modern FromSoftware titles, appealing strongly to fans of soulslikes. However, some players find certain design elements, like ambiguous paths and hitbox issues, occasionally disrupt the immersion. Overall, the atmosphere is praised for its charm and engaging lore.

    • “It's a very atmospheric game with its own charm.”
    • “I believe this is one of the games that best captures the atmosphere, vibes, and overall tone of the classic King's Field games, while blending them with some elements from modern FromSoftware titles.”
    • “I found myself immediately immersed in a unique atmosphere, with a lore that became more and more engaging the deeper I explored it.”
    • “The main path is ambiguous, which is fine, but I found myself at times glitching my way up walls to find routes and weighing whether or not I was playing the game the right way or if I'd break sequence accidentally, which really took me out of the atmosphere.”

  • graphics

    6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    50% positive mentions, 17% neutral mentions, 33% negative mentions

    The graphics receive mixed feedback, with some praising the game's unique and appealing art style as shown in trailers and screenshots, while others criticize the in-game visuals as rough, unpolished, and unattractive. Overall, players feel the presentation, including lack of music and repetitive sounds, detracts from the experience and hope for improvements to enhance playability and visual quality.

    • “I had been excited about this game releasing for a few weeks now because the art style looks absolutely gorgeous in the trailer and screenshots, and it looks great in game too.”
    • “The visuals and concept are interesting and enticing.”
    • “I hope they fix these asap, because I actually really dig the game's art style.”
    • “They seldom even had the presentation worth noting as they rarely had music, just had the character’s footsteps and a jumping sound, and the graphics were usually jumbled nonsense.”
    • “This game requires a lot more work for it to be in a playable/enjoyable state; the intro with super loud questionable voice acting then you're unceremoniously dropped in some dungeon with no music or any ambience whatsoever, only your obnoxiously loud footsteps and the same grunt sounds your character plays whenever you jump, and then you realize just how bad the visuals are. I'm all in for unique and cool art styles, but this is just ugly; there's no other way to put it.”

  • gameplay

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    20% positive mentions, 20% neutral mentions, 60% negative mentions

    The gameplay is criticized for being sluggish, unforgiving, and poorly polished, with inaccurate combat and a lack of user-friendly features like objective markers and detailed maps. Many users feel it resembles older, simpler games like King's Field but falls short due to numerous issues and a lack of refinement. Overall, it feels underdeveloped and frustrating.

    • “The gameplay is very similar to King's Field, with all its simplicity.”
    • “If you want objective markers, a detailed map, forgiving mechanics, plentiful healing options, fair combat encounters, this game is not for you.”
    • “Unfortunately, those are let down by simply bad gameplay, UI, sound design, etc. This game needed substantially more playtesting and polish and feels like it's in an alpha state; combat in particular feels sluggish, inaccurate, and unforgiving.”
    • “It looks interesting and reminds me of King's Field, but the whole gameplay is extremely poor.”

  • story

    5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    60% positive mentions, 40% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The story of the game is intriguing, featuring multiple endings, creative creature designs, and a unique, evocative setting. However, it suffers from a lack of polish, with scattered text fragments that contain typos and fail to fully engage. Overall, the narrative offers potential but feels somewhat underdeveloped.

    • “I've played the game extensively and finished the story a few times (yes, it has multiple endings).”
    • “I was also greeted with creative creature design, a provocative latent story, and eerie environments.”
    • “The story and unique setting are what captivated me about Forgotten Blood.”

  • music

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game lacks meaningful music or ambient sounds, relying only on repetitive footsteps and jumping noises, which contributes to a stark and unenjoyable audio experience. This absence of audio depth, combined with poor visuals, detracts significantly from the overall presentation.

    • “This game requires a lot more work to be in a playable and enjoyable state; the intro has super loud questionable voice acting, then you're dropped into a dungeon with no music or ambience whatsoever, only obnoxiously loud footsteps and repetitive grunts when jumping.”
    • “They seldom even had any presentation worth noting as they rarely included music, just the character’s footsteps and a jumping sound.”
    • “Hope you weren't expecting music or ambient sounds of the environment.”

  • stability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent glitches such as malfunctioning switches, attack animations failing to register, and enemy AI frequently becoming inactive. These problems create uncertainty about whether the gameplay is intentionally designed this way or simply hindered by bugs.

    • “Lots of glitches, from switches not working, to enemy and player attack animations whiffing for no reason, to enemy AI just standing still and doing nothing.”
    • “Heck, it is hard to tell if it is working as intended or is simply too messy and bug-ridden to function.”

  • emotional

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    Users feel the game’s emotional impact is lacking, describing it as an underdeveloped product released prematurely, which undermines its ability to engage or resonate deeply.

  • optimization

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 100% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The game's optimization delivers adequate performance and stability, but significant issues remain that hinder a fully recommended experience in its current state.

  • grinding

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    Grinding in this game is tedious and cumbersome, requiring players to navigate awkward inventory mechanics and interact with flying orbs, often leading to frustrating glitches during item collection.

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is widely regarded as ineffective, coming across as more sad than genuinely funny.

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Play Times

2h Median play time
2h Average play time
2-2h Spent by most gamers
*Based on 1 analyzed playthroughs
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Forgotten Blood is a open world role playing game with horror, fantasy, dark fantasy and violence themes. Common tags for Forgotten Blood include first-person, 3D, indie, exploration, story rich and others.

Forgotten Blood is available on PC and Windows.

On average players spend around 2 hours playing Forgotten Blood.

Forgotten Blood was released on June 29, 2026.

Forgotten Blood was developed by Maruko.

Forgotten Blood has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Forgotten Blood for its atmosphere but disliked it for its gameplay.

Forgotten Blood is a single player game.