Bloomtown: A Different Story

A 1960s mystery RPG with a hidden demon world

Bloomtown: A Different Story is a story-led role-playing game that combines turn-based battles with monster taming. Its setting is a small American town in the 1960s, with a cinema, grocery shops, a library and parks. The listing also calls it a social RPG, so talking with townspeople is part of the game alongside the fights.

It carries a Teen content rating. It suits players who want a JRPG built around a mystery, with a child protagonist and a supernatural threat under an ordinary town.

Turn-based combat and monster taming

Battles are turn-based, and monster taming sits alongside them as part of the combat system. The enemies are the fears and vices of the townspeople, which the listing says have taken monstrous form in the Underside. Each fight is therefore tied to something the story is about.

Exploring the town and the Underside

Bloomtown is the everyday layer of the game, with its cinema, grocery shops, library and parks. The Underside is the layer beneath it, described as a demon world growing under the town's surface, where the children have been disappearing.

Those two places are what the mystery is built on, so the exploration covers both the quiet streets and the dark world below them.

Solving the disappearances with Emily and her friends

You play as Emily, a 12-year-old with an adventurous streak, who arrives with her younger brother Chester for the summer at their grandpa's town. Emily leads a group of friends as they work through the disappearances and the nightmares that grow more real.

The stated aim is to save the townspeople's souls from the demons that feed on their fears and vices.