Blood: Cryptic Passage

Platform
PC
Released
1997
Reviewed
08 Aug 2026
Rated
★★★☆☆
Progress
finished on “Lightly Broiled” difficulty

The developers behind this, Sunstorm Interactive, put out half a dozen expansions for Build engine games in the span of two years, and it shows—some levels are just bland, like the library or the mountain pass, while others, like the graveyard, have such brutal enemy placements sometimes I'm not sure how much time the designers had to actually playtest their creations. There's still a few bangers in here: the riverboat, though it's not as well-directed as the train level in the original game; the opera house; and parts of the finale, the castle. Overall, it's more Blood, just not as strong.