About This Game

Papers, Please meets dark fantasy deduction in Blightened: Relic Keeper, a survival deduction roguelite.

Every relic has a correct fate. Visitors lie, evidence conflicts, and assumptions get expensive.

Question its carrier. Examine the evidence. Then decide:

Return it.

Destroy it.

Commit it to the Syphon.

Just don't guess.

At the end of each day, fuel burns and the keeper maintains the damage. Demands grow heavier as your run continues.

With randomized runs and permadeath, reaching Day 100 is an achievement, not an expectation.

You are the Keeper of the Sanctuary Archive. Beneath it, the Syphon burns Blight to keep the ruptures closed, and it is always hungry.

Visitors arrive with objects recovered from the rupture zones. Meet 130 characters across a dozen factions, from scavengers and druid couriers to crystal-bodied Shatter-Kin and Stone Wardens.

Each brings a relic and a story. Some are honest. Some are mistaken. Some are lying.

Classify each relic as Harmless, Blight-Contaminated, or a Memory Vessel. Then choose its fate: fuel the Syphon, return it to its carrier, or destroy it. 

Every relic has one right answer even the Divine. Mistakes can weaken Containment, destabilize the ruptures, and damage the factions’ trust.

Some mistakes cost far more than others.

Every few days, the Archive offers a choice of blessings. Reduce the daily burn or make vital repairs more affordable.

Choose what your run needs. Today’s advantage could keep you alive tomorrow.

Valgrim’s Minion can replenish fuel, repair Containment, improve Faction Cooperation, and stabilize the ruptures. If you have the gold.

You can’t afford everything. Decide what can wait.

Every ten days you survive unlocks another issue of the original Blightened comic. Discover eight issues, readable inside the game, and experience the next chapter of Blightened.

What you uncover here is only the beginning of the Blightened franchise.

• 220+ relics with their own evidence and lore to examine, classify, and handle.

• 130 visitors across a dozen factions. Judge their stories against the evidence.

• Four investigative tools: Question, Lens, Blight Gauge, and Echo Probe.

• Five resources to balance: Blight Fuel, Containment, Faction Cooperation, Rupture Stability, and Gold.

• The Seven Powers: Divine relics hidden among ordinary objects. Recognize them, declare them, and place them on the Altar for permanent upgrades.

• Randomized runs and permadeath. Put your deduction skills to the test across a 100-day survival challenge.

• Eight unlockable comic issues, earned every ten days you survive.

• Controller, keyboard-only, and mouse-only play.

• Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools were used during development to assist with the creation of certain visual assets, including character references, comic imagery, and base models. All gameplay systems, writing, design decisions, asset selection, editing, and implementation were directed and integrated by the developer.