Blightstone

Blightstone is a challenging, dark fantasy turn-based roguelike that brings unique twists to combat through freedom of character placement, interactive environments and hardcore resource management. Dying…

70 20 January 2026

Adventure Indie Role-playing (RPG) Strategy Fantasy

Blightstone is an adventure developed by Unfinished Pixel, released 20 January 2026 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

Verified 8 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Blightstone is

Blightstone is an adventure game developed by Unfinished Pixel and released in 2026. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blightstone is a challenging, dark fantasy turn-based roguelike that brings unique twists to combat through freedom of character placement, interactive environments, and hardcore resource management. Dying, learning and meta-progression will be key to defeating enemies. Your mission is to protect and deliver the Earthglass Crystal to the infernal rift. Only then you can destroy the Demon Overlord and shatter the Blightstone itself.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 27 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Blightstone holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 79, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for AMD Athlon X4 | Intel Core i5 4460 and Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

Blightstone launched on 20 January 2026, within three weeks of Hytale, Cairn, Mewgenics and Nioh 3. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Hytale, Cairn, Mewgenics, Nioh 3.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer

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Quick answers

Blightstone — frequently asked questions

When did Blightstone come out?

Blightstone was released on 20 January 2026 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

What are the minimum PC requirements for Blightstone?

At minimum, Blightstone needs AMD Athlon X4 | Intel Core i5 4460, Nvidia GTX 950 | AMD R7 370 graphics, 6 GB available space of storage.

How many GB is Blightstone?

The PC version needs about 6 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("6 GB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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