A cinematic 3D bullet hell
The thrill of the kill.
Graze enemy fire point-blank to charge your hyper — then spend it to tear the screen apart.
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What's left is a machine world that cannot feel — and will not stop. From the ashes, one spark remains. The machines keep coming and they never get tired, so you get close, and you keep killing.
Skim enemy fire at point-blank range to charge your hyper, then spend everything you've grazed on a screen-shredding burst, mid-combo, to keep the chain alive.
Console-grade spectacle. Arcade-pure soul.
The loop
Skim enemy fire to charge your hyper — then unleash it mid-combo as a homing missile storm and keep the chain alive. Every burst you earn buys a few seconds of annihilation. Then straight back into the fire, one rank higher.
Risk is the resource.
Focus mode
Enemy fire isn't painted on a flat plane — it fills the space around you, above and below. Slip into focus and you slow to a crawl, arm a heavy laser, and start reading that depth well enough to thread it.
Not a flat plane.
The camera
This isn't top-down. A dramatic third-person camera pulls you into the storm with real depth, weight, and dramatic light — built in Unreal Engine 5 with Lumen and Nanite.
Real depth. Real weight. Real light.
Proof of mastery
Deterministic, verifiable replays — every score has a watchable run behind it. Tuned for 60+ FPS on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
Every run counts. Every run can be watched back.
The rank system
Rank is a single number tracking how well you're playing right now — and it feeds straight back into the game. Climb it and every point is worth more, but every bullet on screen gets faster. There is no difficulty slider. There's just how good you are, minute to minute.
In-engine — rank climbing C → B → A mid-stage
Rank is continuous, not stepped — the multipliers slide smoothly between tiers.
That last one matters most: rank has a cooldown. Hide at the edge of the arena and the game doesn't just fail to reward you — it actively winds you back down. Playing safe is a slow loss. The only way to hold a high rank is to keep killing and keep grazing while the bullets get faster around you.
One exception, deliberately: the slow area-denial patterns never speed up. Those are spatial puzzles and they stay solvable at every rank. It's the aimed fire — the shots meant to punish your reactions — that sharpens as you climb.
Your reward is the difficulty.
Field captures
All footage captured in-engine. Unreal Engine 5.
From the developer
I love this genre. I used to watch people play these games in arcades and I was always in awe of how good they were. Bloodline is my attempt at that feeling — the bullet hell I always wanted to make, built by hand in Unreal Engine 5, in my spare time. Follow the journey — and if you chase the score, wishlist it.
If you live for the one perfect run — the chain that never breaks, the graze that shouldn't have worked, the score that finally falls — Bloodline is built for you.
From the Bloodline anthem — “Ashes of the Bloodline”
Rise up, lone warrior, reclaim the fight! You’re the bloodline, the last beating heart.
Rise up, lone warrior, reclaim the fight!
Break through the circuits, ignite the night!
You’re the bloodline, the last beating heart,
Push back the shadows, tear it all apart!
Save the world from the void we’ve made,
With every step, let the old ways fade.
You’re the hope in the desolate storm,
One soul to heal what was torn!
Ashes of the Bloodline — from the Bloodline album
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