Likely worth it. Reviews lean strongly positive.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $9.99.
- Story and characters: 204 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 71 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 59 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Bugs: 23 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 2k player reviews · updated 2 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The TL;DR is that Bloomtown: A Different Story is a lovely little Persona-like (crossed with a chunk of Gravity Falls and a smidge of Stardew Valley), with A++ pixel art and great music, let down only by some minor issues.
Not every game NEEDS to be 100+ hours long, and while I wish there was more replayability, I'm thankful that it didn't drag on long LONG past the point of being fun like modern Persona games tend to do.
Together, the visuals and music do much of the heavy lifting in establishing Bloomtown’s distinct emotional identity.
As mentioned, the soundtrack is awesome, but there's not a ton of it (though I appreciate the three normal battle themes).
- Fully Steam Deck supported
• My PS5 (DualSense) controller worked perfectly for the game.
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Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $9.99 (−60%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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