Blightened: Relic Keeper

Papers, Please meets dark fantasy deduction in Blightened: Relic Keeper, a survival deduction roguelite.
Every relic has a correct fate. Visitors lie, evidence conflicts, and assumptions get expensive.
Use your tools to uncover the truth. Then decide:
Return it.
Destroy it.
Commit it to the syphon.
Just don't guess.


You are the Keeper of the Sanctuary Archive. Beneath it, the Syphon burns Blight to keep the ruptures closed, and it is always hungry.
Every day, visitors bring you objects recovered from the rupture zones: scavengers, druid couriers, pilgrims, crystal-bodied Shatter-Kin, Stone Wardens and others. 130 visitors, each with a relic and a story. Some are honest. Some are mistaken. Some are lying.

Question the visitor, then test the story. The Lens reads markings and materials. The Blight Gauge measures contamination. The Echo Probe listens for memories trapped inside. Turn the relic, compare the readings, and decide what you actually believe. Sincerity is not the same as accuracy.

Classify each relic as Harmless, Blight-Contaminated or a Memory Vessel. Then choose its fate: commit it to the Syphon as fuel, return it to its carrier, or destroy it. Every relic has one right answer. The wrong ones cost Containment, Rupture Stability and the factions' trust, and some mistakes cost far more than others.

When the cycle ends, the ruptures take their fuel and the Archive counts the damage. Spend your gold with Valgrim's Minion. Take Malgrin's help if you need it; he always collects. Pick a boon every few days. The burn grows heavier every day.

220+ relics to read, classify and handle, each with its own evidence and lore

130 visitors across a dozen factions, and not all of them are honest

Four tools: Question, Lens, Blight Gauge and Echo Probe

Five resources to balance: Blight Fuel, Containment, Faction Cooperation, Rupture Stability and Gold

The Seven Powers: Divine relics hidden among the ordinary. Recognize one, declare it, and place it on the Altar for a permanent upgrade

Randomized runs and permadeath. Reaching Day 100 is an achievement, not an expectation

Chronicles: eight issues of the original Blightened comic, one unlocked every ten days you survive

Play with a controller, keyboard only or mouse only

Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud saves