Disclaimer – I paid something like the price of a can of Coke for this game.

Deathbloom isn't amazing by any means. It's not a game I'll talk about with passion in the future — I'm not even sure I'll remember much of it in a year or two, but... I can't say it was unpleasant.

From what I've read, it was the developer's first "big" release, and I'll be proud of myself if I can do anything at least as intriguing anytime soon.

Overall, it's a poor man's Resident Evil — think of the first game's level design mixed with the seventh episode's gameplay.

It's slow, you're walking through corridors, you're looking for keys, you read various documents, and occasionally, you fight zombies.

The story reveals itself through your findings and readings, and as far as Chapter 1 goes, it borrows the weird themes that Silent Hill 1 explored back then — if you managed to uncover the full plot.

The game looks good — it's made with Unity, meaning it runs like a dead dog, but offers decent visuals, and the developer managed to craft a visually nice playground.

The atmosphere is nice. I always appreciate games that try to instill a tense feeling instead of relying on jump scares like that god-awful animatronic series, so, bonus points for that.

This is not a product geared towards zoomers.

Some negatives though: full price at the moment (around 10 bucks) is excessive considering it's not much more than a competent "first project", and, it ends with a cliffhanger waiting for you to play Part 2.

Not much more to say.
This review will probably not convince you to play it, but if you're curious enough to give it a try, you'll have a good time if you've played classic survival horror games enough to remember their whole map layout without effort.

We are the same breed.

Moving on to Part 2 !