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During a summer in Bloomtown, Emily investigates disappearances by exploring town life and battling, capturing, and fusing demons.
Released 24 Sep 2024
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Bloomtown: A Different Story is a narrative JRPG mixing turn-based combat, monster taming and social RPG set in a seemingly pleasant 1960s Americana world. Join Emily and her group of friends to save their cozy town from the demonic creatures that live in the hearts of its residents!
Developed by Lazy Bear Games, Different Sense Games · Published by Twin Sails Interactive
Emily and her younger brother Chester spend the summer with their grandfather in Bloomtown, a small town with a hidden supernatural side. When children begin disappearing, Emily and her friends investigate the mystery and venture into a demon-filled world beneath the town.
Explore Bloomtown and its hidden areas, then face demons and bosses in turn-based battles with Emily’s party. Characters bring different abilities to fights; exploiting enemy weaknesses can open opportunities to capture creatures, which can join the team or be fused to create new combinations of skills.
Between investigations, Emily can spend time with friends, develop social and personal stats, and take on everyday activities such as working, gardening, cooking, crafting, and visiting the gym. These activities offer different ways to build resources and character strengths as the story progresses.
In the supplied reviews, players often praise the detailed pixel art, memorable soundtrack, and the contrast between Bloomtown’s cozy small-town setting and its darker mysteries. Some also enjoy exploring the town, its characters, and the demon-collecting combat, though opinions differ on the story and how much depth the combat offers.
Bloomtown: A Different Story is a narrative JRPG mixing turn-based combat, monster taming and social RPG set in a seemingly pleasant 1960s Americana world.
Play as Emily and her younger brother Chester sent on their summer holiday to their grandpa’s cozy and quiet town. May be too quiet… Children starting to disappear, nightmares getting more real… Something’s not right, especially for a 12-year-old girl with an adventurous mind!
It is up to you to solve this mystery and free Bloomtown and its inhabitants from a glooming fate! 
Bloomtown is a quiet and cozy American town with its cinema, grocery shops, library, parks…
But this is only a façade! A demon world is growing on the underside, children are disappearing, and it is up to you to save the town!
Embark on mysterious adventure to save the townspeople from their own demons: Fear and vices have taken monstrous life form in the Underside.
Follow Emily and her group of friends, figure out the mysteries of the mystical disappearances and save Bloomtown’s inhabitants souls!
In the turn-based tactical battles against giant demons and dungeon bosses from the Underside, Emily is not alone! Use each character abilities and strengths to come out victorious. Summon your own inner demons as well as the captured ones to set up devastating combos.
During combat, catch weaken creatures to add them. With loads of creatures, level-ups, unique skills and a fuse system, create hundreds of synergies and your own demon-hunting squad.
Explore the town’s secret areas, strengthen your physical abilities at the gym, gain pocket money working at the grocery store, make resourceful friends or do some relaxing gardening. You decide what is the most useful for your adventure.
| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 41 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
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