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Introducing... 🩸 VAMPIRIUM: 1997 1997. Dracula is King of England. Master your dark gifts to assassinate his enemies and secure his vampiric empire. Infiltrate locked-down locations, adapt and survive in living environments and uncover your own unique methods of executing missions. Wishlist now.

Vampirium: 1997 isn’t in next fest, but while you’re in a wishlisting mood, I’d really appreciate you adding us too. Makes a big difference and helps us position ourselves better down the road :) Also I added pyromancy today. So that’s fun. store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

We've been squishing bugs and making quality of life improvements to Vampirium: 1997 🧛 Here's a handful of the updates we've been working on!

Added strangulation to Vampirium today. Any appropriate item can be used, of course if you want to do it to a vampire you’ll need to source something silver. Game development is fun and also creates an interesting search history.

Some things are just occupational hazards. Like where to store your half-eaten human when you're done with your meal. Here's some of the options available to you if you ever find yourself in a bind in Vampirium: 1997 🧛

Big day in Vampirium: 1997 development…

The first Vampirium: 1997 playtest went great! Lots of useful feedback, new ideas... ...and a bunch of inanimate objects achieved sentience 🐛

It's that time again 🎃 Happy Steam Autumn Sale! Our entire Steam catalogue is up to 75% off until the 8th, and you can pick games up as part of a bundle to stack the discounts. Go get some games! 🍂

I'm going to be interviewing @mikebithell.bsky.social at Game Republic New Horizons on October 15 for @edgeknowledge.bsky.social. He'll reveal some new aspects of his next game, Vampirium: 1997, during the session. Should be cool!

Game Republic New Horizons has added Housemarque and Bithell Games to its speaker lineup in addition to an open session with Nintendo representatives for developers and publishers www.gamesindustry.biz/housemarque-...

Paul has done an outstanding job with Amberspire soundtrack, go give him money for it!

In all sincerity, the playtest feedback this weekend was incredible on Vampirium: 1997. 🩸 Mike has already implemented a ton of upgrades. Could not be happier on how it's all coming together and what the future looks like. Thank you again to all the playtesters!

Had a good chat about Vampirium: 1997 with @gameinformer.com gameinformer.com/preview/2026...

The Vampirium: 1997 alpha playtest is now closed! Thanks so much to everyone who played and left us feedback, it’s a massive help, and a massive encouragement. Also thanks to @sliwinski.bsky.social and @caitlinst.bsky.social for a lot of behind the scenes work to make events like this happen

As I spend my day collating Vampirium 1997 feedback (again, this is all great!), the submissions that are giving me life are a bug that makes inanimate objects aware of your presence. The sentient knife was funny. The sentient fire extinguisher was a solid chuckle...but, but this was perfection...

I’m like 75% sure I just let in a batch of people to the playtest… lol… lemme know if you’re successfully playing Vampirium: 1997 I guess.

Folks queued up for the playtest, we’re running the tutorial and Zsombor’s manor, level 5 cap I can tell you (because I did it this morning) that that’s a 2hr speed through for me to 100% it. First time players, obviously a fair bit longer Allow some time this weekend, is basically what I’m saying

Excited to see everyone queued up for our first public playtest this weekend. Can’t wait to hear your feedback. Doors are now closed. Oh? You didn’t know we were doing a playtest this weekend and didn’t sign up? Hop on our mailing list to be notified of the next one mailchi.mp/bithellgames...

My soundtrack for Amberspire by @nictringali.bsky.social (Lunar Division / @bithellgames.bsky.social ) is out now on Bandcamp, and will be everywhere else in a couple of weeks. Sorry for slow! nervoustestpilot.bandcamp.com/album/ambers...

I had the absolute pleasure of getting to talk to one of my indie game heroes this week! @mikebithell.bsky.social joins me on the pod to talk about Vampirium: 1997 🧛‍♂️ @bithellgames.bsky.social’s newest immersive sim audio: indiegamegarden.transistor.fm/30 youtube: youtu.be/AF_hxip65-g?...

I spoke with @mikebithell.bsky.social about Vampirium: 1997, immersive sims, abstraction — and the coat hook that became a game mechanic. New Systems of Play piece. #indiegames #gamedev #gamedesign @bithellgames.bsky.social

Mike Bithell on the thematic ambitions and immersive sim elements of Vampirium: 1997 https://www.respec.net/interview/156-vampires-tend-to-coincide-with-concerns-about-being-eaten-by-rich-people-ultimately-its-that-simple-mike-bithell-on-thematic-ambitions-immersive-sim-elements-vampirium-1997

Assassination is messy work. If your approach is on the violent side, maybe keep an eye on how those consequences stack up. Wishlist Vampirium: 1997 on Steam!🧛

Getting excited texts from playtesters means I’m gonna allow myself, maybe, 20 minutes of belief that Vampirium: 1997 is good, actually. As a treat.

If you missed it yesterday, we posted our next dev update to steam… 10 min of combat play. Really excited by how these systems play together, hope you will be too. Turquoise thumbnail after trailer on the store page :) store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/... Share and wishlist if you’d be so kind

Interested in how combat works in Vampirium: 1997? New gameplay video on the steam page.. 10 minutes of tactical timer based vampiric carnage. Share, and of course, wishlist. store.steampowered.com/app/4035190/...

The Banished Vault is 3 today! 🎂 Survive a journey across space in the Auriga Vault, an interstellar gothic monastery crewed by the last remaining exiles of a terrible disaster. Pick it up for 33% off this weekend 🌙

The best part of announcing Vampirium: 1997 good and early is that I get to make it in conversation with players.. shoutout to Mark in the steam forums for suggesting randomised keycodes as a good fit for repeated playthroughs.. just added them today :) First of many player suggested additions.

Proud to say that Subsurface Circular is of course a part of Steam Train Fest store.steampowered.com/app/676820/S...

Chapter 5 in your inboxes. Dracula will see you now. Sign up here: mailchi.mp/bithellgames...