New ’90s Cartoon-Inspired Dungeon Crawler Releases on Steam

Blending bold ’90s cartoon-inspired visuals with field hockey, vampire apocalypse, and ARPG dungeon crawlers, Blud is finally out today. With clear shades of The Powerpuff Girls, Dexter’s Laboratory and even the wacky hijinks of Johnny Bravo, I’ve been wanting to sink my teeth into this (sorry) for some time.

This top-down dungeon crawler casts you as Becky Brewster, a field hockey player who moved to the town of Carpentersville and also happens to come from a long, ancient lineage of vampire hunters. As you can probably imagine, this takes Blud’s gameplay down the only possible path: fighting vampires and other monsters across the city with a giant hockey stick.

You’ll upgrade your arsenal with a grappling hook, umbrella shield, shovel and much more. When you’re not in class, you’ll use social media to follow missions, and you can even take selfies with each monster to understand its strengths and weaknesses – a mechanic that action RPGs need to embrace more.

Explore the whole town when you’re not in session at Carpentersville High, as vampires, bats, rats and demons lurk everywhere you don’t look. Just make sure you carve out time for your extracurricular activities that don’t involve the undead, okay?

With the hack-and-slash arcade genre well and truly back with excellent games like TMNT Shredder’s Revenge, I was looking forward to something like Blud. This is a bright, lively wine brimming with charm, which is a recipe for delight any way you cut it.

Blud is available on Steam from Tuesday June 18and you can find it here.

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