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Blightened: Relic Keeper

Inspect cursed relics. Question unreliable visitors. Find the Seven Powers. Feed what you can, return what you must, destroy what should never leave. Keep the Archive alive for one more day.

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About the Game

Papers, Please meets dark fantasy deduction in Blightened: Relic Keeper, a narrative-driven archive management game set in the world of Blightened.

“Inspect relics. Diagnose corruption. Decide what survives.”


The Sanctuary Archive processes relics recovered from unstable ruptures in time. Each day, visitors arrive carrying corrupted objects, forbidden artifacts, and remnants of collapsed histories. Your role is to inspect them, classify their rupture signatures, and determine how they should be handled.

Every decision affects the Archive, but not every consequence is immediate.

Maintain containment, manage dwindling resources, and keep the rupture network stable as the world outside continues to decay. Incorrect classifications can destabilize the Sanctuary, alter future events, or place dangerous relics back into circulation.

Features:

  • Deduction-driven relic inspection and classification

  • Consequence-based decision making

  • Over 200 unique relics and 100+ visitors

  • Dark fantasy worldbuilding and layered lore

  • Archive systems with resource and containment management

  • Atmospheric crafted visuals and audio

  • Multiple outcomes shaped by your choices

The Archive remembers everything and every player run is randomized.

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