
Deathwish Bloom
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
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Playable Prototype 1.1 is up! Experience the opening and meet your first friends, lovers and enemies in a ~20 minute game snippet.
Deathwish Bloom is a morally grey romance adventure set in a soft post-apocalyptic world.


You lied, and now they trust you. Play as Sky, a female scientist, forced to manipulate, romance, or destroy people closest to you in your obsession to recreate a lost medicine.


- A first-person female protagonist POV: this is a woman's world.
- A branching story with multiple endings: your choices affect who is loved, who is betrayed, and whose life span gets cut short (including yours).
- Heart matters: To hell with the policy of not dating your colleagues! Enjoy the euphoria and the heartbreak of a hushed slow burn enemies-to-lovers or friends-to-lovers romance of either gender. Want to keep it entirely platonic? The main story can be enjoyed fully on its own.
- A complex hidden relationship system: every choice informs everyone’s perception of you and affects your experience far beyond "they like/dislike you". Choose who you want to be at every interaction. Shock or delight other character when veering off your usual behaviour.
- Experimental foods: Science City needs guinea pigs for their experimental foods. Start your work day right by getting their "special". Daily grind hits different when you can't tell a lie, see the world in pink or confuse everyone for your crush as a side effect.
- Investigate the new order of the soft post-apocalyptic setting: 20 years ago the Earth got rearranged by earthquakes. The planet separated into a handful of safe zones and the barely inhabited quake-ridden land of questionable ecological state. It's not wise to leave the safety of the Science City but you will.
- Painstaking 100% human art only: fine colour pencil look, hand-drawn with human-made imperfections (stats: 50 000–100 000 strokes per background/sprite) by an acclaimed artist Irina Kuksova.
- Original Soundtrack: 25+ tracks commissioned exclusively for Deathwish Bloom.
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Deathwish Bloom contains mature themes and is intended for an older audience. Player discretion is advised.
| Updated | 18 days ago |
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
| Rating | Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars (1 total ratings) |
| Author | sharpglassgames |
| Genre | Visual Novel, Interactive Fiction |
| Made with | Ren'Py, Twine, Adobe Photoshop |
| Tags | Amare, Female Protagonist, Indie, LGBT, Otome, Post-apocalyptic, Romance, Story Rich |
| Code license | MIT License |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Inputs | Mouse, Touchscreen |
| Links | Steam, Blog, Bluesky, Instagram, Steam, YouTube, Homepage, Feedback Form |
| Content | No generative AI was used |
Download
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Click download now to get access to the following files:
DWB3-win.zip 499 MB
DWB3-mac.zip 508 MB
DWB3-linux.tar.bz2 486 MB
Development log
- March 2026: Steam page + new trailer + free playtest, and lots and lots of stats31 days ago
- Deathwish Bloom goes live on Steam for Games from Ireland Steam Event 202645 days ago
- Deathwish Bloom Playtest Launch!52 days ago
- February 2026: RENDR Festival Playtest!61 days ago
- January 2026: Imirt AGM & 2026 plans89 days ago
- Happy New Year!Dec 31, 2025
- November – December 2025: IndieDev Finale & Prototype testsDec 09, 2025
- September—October 2025: …must …make …the prototype!Oct 23, 2025





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