Deathwish Bloom

About the Game

Deathwish Bloom is a nuanced relationship visual novel set in a quake-ridden post-apocalyptic world. Your choices are irreversible.

Play as Sky Harlow, a disgraced researcher whose survival depends on how and when you reveal secrets rather than science. Thread carefully through the Science City where nothing you do goes unnoticed. Find a way to recreate the cure before you are forced back to the Quake Lands.

Romance Alice, whose warmth feels dangerously close to peace. Cody, who sees through you and refuses to look away. Or Gabriel, who seems to offer a wholesome salvation. Grow platonic friendships or risk losing them. Every bond makes it harder to avoid what each of you would rather bury than remember.

In this fractured world, there is still so much to love.
But no one is safe to love and stay unchanged.
Especially you.

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• First-person female protagonist: live inside Sky's head for a deeply personal narrative shaped by your choices.

• Romance options: pursue a forbidden slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance with Cody, or friends-to-lovers romance with Alice or Gabriel. Flirt freely, but not everyone who winks at you has your best interests at heart.

• Nuanced relationship system: no visible score. Your relationships go far beyond 'like/dislike' stats. Characters interpret your actions over time, shaping how they respond in the future. Shock or delight your friends, enemies, and lovers by veering off your usual behaviour. A white lie, an omission or an untimely disclosure can go a long way. 

• Branching story with multiple endings: is Sky's story one of tenderness and redemption? Or will she succumb to revenge and destruction? Can those you let in survive your choices? Can you?

• Experimental foods: get a Science City Bar daily "special" that alters your perception, behaviour or interactions. Lose the ability to lie, see the world in pink or mistake strangers for your crush. Adapt or spiral when your own mind cannot be trusted.

• Pet love: An escaped lab animal known as “GMOuse”. They chose you. Their love feels pure. They will comfort you throughout the game if you choose them back.

• Explore the fractured world: 20 years ago catastrophic earthquakes reshaped the planet. Humanity lives in isolated Safe Zones or barely survives in the unstable lands beyond. It's not wise to leave the safety of the Science City but you will. Meet the people who adapted to living in the Quake Lands and team up to scavenge the rarities the earth spits up in beautiful spots of questionable ecological state. 

• 100% hand-drawn art: all visuals are created with tens of thousands of individual strokes by acclaimed artist Irina Kuksova.