$19.99Bloodthief Drink Blood, Run Faster
Sprint through haunted crypts as a vampire, turning slain enemies into speed and strength while you hunt the perfect route.
Is Bloodthief worth it?
Bloodthief is worth it if…
- you want short, intense levels you can replay forever, chasing medals and better times
- you like movement games where routing, not just reflexes, decides how fast you go
- you enjoy close-range swordplay instead of guns
- you don't mind dying a lot while a run comes together
- you'd rather find secrets yourself than look them up
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Blood is fuel, and speed is the whole game
You are a vampire, and the blood of your enemies is your engine. Every kill feeds abilities that push you to absurd speeds, so movement and combat are one thing: you slash, you drink, you keep moving. Stand still and you are already losing.
Picture it: you sprint across a crypt rooftop, drop into a pack of skeletons, cut through them before they finish turning around, and use the momentum to clear a gap no sane person would jump. That is the loop, and it feels incredible once it clicks.
The catch is that it takes practice. The controls are tight and the basics come fast, but real speed comes from learning how movement and attacks feed each other. Die, restart, go again, and come out the other side feeling like exactly what the game keeps calling you: a killing machine.
Levels built for the one-more-run life
There are 30 main levels, plus secrets and extra ones to unlock, and they reward routing as much as reflexes. Branching paths, shortcuts and over 100 secrets hide in the depths, and 20 collectable weapons each carry a perk that changes how you move: one reveals secrets, one lets you double jump, one negates a hit. Picking the right blade for a level is half the run.
Time scores gate progress, and medals sit well beyond simply finishing, so a level is never done when it is beaten. Race ghosts of friends or strangers worldwide, climb the in-game leaderboards, or ignore all that and browse the Workshop, where custom maps keep the levels coming.
Fair warning: the later campaign leans harder into locked combat arenas, and a couple of levels spike in difficulty. The early, pure-movement levels are where the game is at its best.
Can you play it at your own pace?
Can you play it solo and offline?
Yes. It is a singleplayer game through and through, and everything core to it, the 30 levels, the weapons, the secrets, works entirely on your own. The racing and leaderboards are there if you want competition, but nothing requires another person. You can also play maps other people built without ever meeting them.
Do you have to speedrun to finish it?
Sort of. Playing through the levels is one thing, but progress past the early chapters is gated behind time scores, so you cannot coast through ignoring the clock. You do not need medal-level runs to advance, just reasonably clean ones. If replaying levels to shave seconds sounds like a chore rather than the point, that gate is the part to think about.
How gory is it, really?
The violence is the point: you dismember undead enemies and drink their blood, and the game leans into it. If that is too much, there is a blood customisation option to tone it down, and an arachnophobia mode as well. The retro, early-3D look keeps it stylised rather than realistic, but the carnage is constant.
What makes the weapons worth collecting?
Each of the 20 weapons has its own perk, and they change how you play, not just how hard you hit. One reveals secrets, one grants a double jump, one negates a hit, one improves your control in the air. Since they are hidden in the levels, hunting them down doubles as a reason to explore every corner of a dungeon you thought you knew.
