Blasphemous
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
The player fights grotesque human and monster enemies in bloody melee sword combat, with blood spray and gore across the screen.
Religious guilt, eternal torment, suffering and bodily penance are shown in detail throughout the world as its central subject matter.
The player performs on-screen finishing executions that dismember, decapitate and impale enemies.
Grotesque and religious figures in the world's pixel art appear with bare, partially exposed bodies, obscured or stylized rather than explicit.
Penance through bodily suffering and torment is a pervasive theme referenced across the lore and characters.
Self-mortification as penance is depicted, including a figure who strikes her own chest bloody with an effigy until it becomes a weapon.
Macabre, grotesque religious imagery and a bleak, oppressive atmosphere run throughout, without stalking threats or timed jump scares.
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What it is
Blasphemous is a dark-fantasy action-platformer (Metroidvania) in which the player controls a silent knight, the Penitent One, on a pilgrimage through the cursed land of Cvstodia. Play is built on exploration, upgrades and skilled sword combat against grotesque enemies, punctuated by graphic execution finishers that decapitate and dismember foes amid heavy blood and gore. The world draws deeply on Roman Catholic iconography and Spanish Holy Week imagery to depict guilt, suffering, self-flagellation and eternal torment, with partially bare and mutilated figures shown as part of its art. It is a single-player game with no online play, no chat, and no in-app purchases.
How it's framed
The game frames suffering, penance and guilt as its core subject, presenting religious devotion and bodily punishment as sources of both horror and meaning rather than endorsing or condemning them. Violence is carried out by the player against the corrupted inhabitants of a cursed land, and the tone treats their torment as tragic and grotesque rather than triumphant.
Details
- Developer
- The Game Kitchen
- Publisher
- Team17
- Released
- Sep 10, 2019
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