Fit check
Is Blood Money worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-driven crime story
- Players interested in supernatural family drama who prefer text over audiovisual presentation
- Readers seeking character relationships, romance, betrayal, and branching allegiances
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players looking for graphics, sound effects, or action-focused combat
- Readers who prefer short, linear stories rather than a 290,000-word interactive novel with major decisions
- Players seeking a conventional crime game centered on direct control of a criminal empire
Our take on Blood Money
Rather than treating an RPG as a combat-led adventure, Blood Money makes written choices, family negotiations, relationships, and political influence its central structure. Its supernatural element also turns ghost management into a social and moral decision rather than a purely tactical ability.
What is Blood Money?
Blood Money is a 290,000-word interactive novel set during a succession crisis in a criminal underworld.
After the protagonist’s mother, the city’s leading crime boss, is killed by a cousin, rival sisters compete for control while the protagonist uses blood magic to summon and command ghosts. Choices determine whether the protagonist supports the family, joins a rival gang, rejects crime, or acts independently. The story includes family disputes, gang conflict, city politics, romance, betrayal, and relationships with the dead. Character options include male, female, and non-binary identities, along with gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual orientations. The work uses text only, with no graphics or sound effects.
How Blood Money plays
- 01Ghost Command
- The protagonist can call on spirits through blood magic, cultivate ties with them, or send them away.
- 02Branching Allegiances
- Decisions can lead to family leadership, loyalty, defection, independence, or rejection of a criminal life.
- 03Crime Family Politics
- The story includes negotiations among relatives, gang conflict, betrayals, and attempts to influence the mayor’s office.
- 04Character Identity Choices
- The protagonist can be male, female, or non-binary and can have gay, straight, bisexual, or asexual orientation.
- 05Text-Only Presentation
- The 290,000-word work uses written narrative without graphics or sound effects.
Blood Money compared to similar games
Blood Money is a text-only interactive novel focused on branching crime-family relationships, supernatural abilities, romance, and political influence. Back to the Dawn is a prison-escape RPG centered on survival, investigation, and breaking out, while Ghost of a Tale is an action-RPG with exploration, stealth, disguises, and conversations. Planescape: Torment: Enhanced Edition also emphasizes story and characters, but its description identifies it as a game set in a strange city rather than a text-only crime-family narrative.
Blood Money: platforms & release
Is Blood Money worth it?
It is worth it if: interactive-fiction readers who want a long, choice-driven crime story. Skip it if: players looking for graphics, sound effects, or action-focused combat.
Where can I download Blood Money?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Blood Money's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Blood Money on?
Windows, macOS and Linux.
