Lost Records: Bloom & Rage News

Tape 1 of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, the brand-new narrative adventure game from the original creators of Life is Strange, is out TODAY! Get to know Swann, Nora, Autumn and Kat in Tape 1 – Bloom – today, and if you buy it between before March 4 you can benefit from a 10% launch discount.

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Get the OST!

The OST for Tape 1 is on all streaming platforms now, and you can get it on Steam on its own or in a bundle with the game (with a further discount!). Just as the game itself, the second half of the OST will come upon Tape 2’s release as a free update.

If you’re more a physical media person, we’ve got you covered too! You can pre-order the double vinyl edition from Kid Katana here. The double vinyl comes in 2 different colors (transparent pink for “Bloom”, transparent blue for “Rage”) with a punk-style poster and more.

Step Into an Alternate Reality

If you can’t get enough of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, we have something fun and unique in store for you while we wait for Tape 2 to release in April! Our ARG (Alternate Reality Game) invites you all to come together to solve mysteries, puzzles, and hidden stories that tie deeply into the world of Bloom & Rage.

To take part, you can join the Discord server where the story will begin with Erin's request for help to repair a PC. From there, who knows what you’ll discover?

Most writing tries to avoid cliché, understanding that an overused idea is one that has lost its power. It often feels as if video games take the opposite approach, gleefully piling tropes high upon their back like Labyrinth's junk lady. Sure, they sacrifice the opportunity to say anything affecting or which feels true, but presumably the theory is that reminding you of a dozen other films, TV shows, books and games you like is just as good.

Enter Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, hunched over from the weight of all the teen TV shows and young adult novels stacked atop its shoulders.

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I had been keeping my eye on Lost Records: Bloom & Rage ever since I saw the first trailer drop during the 2022 Game Awards. DON’T NOD has been pretty consistent with their games ever since the first Life Is Strange, and even though these kinds of episodic narrative games have fallen somewhat out of fashion as of late, you can always count on them to bring something weird and wonderful to the table.

At least, that was what I thought until I played through the entirety of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Tape 1—a bizarrely structured and not entirely well-delivered first act that is meant to set the stage for something bigger, but draws the curtain before the band is even finished setting up.

Now, that isn’t to say Lost Records: Bloom & Rage – Tape One is completely without merit. The bones are certainly here for a good story, and there are a lot of genuinely sweet and heartfelt moments throughout. However, even for a story split into two parts,... Read more

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is almost here, and we’re so excited that we wanted to celebrate! So, from now til February 28, we’re spreading the love and putting huge discounts on our other narrative and DONT NOD-published games.

Check out the sale here!

It's the perfect time to grab our award-winning chill climbing game Jusant, for example. Or if you fancy something a bit more serious, there's Bird Island's poignant WWII story-rich game Gerda: A Flame in Winter, or psychological thriller Twin Mirror too. If you want to change the world (literally) then it sounds like you’d enjoy our visual novel, Harmony: The Fall of Reverie (on sale from Feb 17).

The double vinyl OST of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is now available to pre-order! Once again partnering with our friends Kid Katana, the double vinyl comes in transparent pink for “Bloom”, and transparent Blue for “Rage”. It comes with a punk-style poster and more! The OST is an 18-track dream pop/ambient album led by explosive punk song "See You in Hell", and is by 3 female-led groups:

• Ruth Radelet, the former lead vocalist of Chromatics
  
• Milk & Bone, a Montréal electropop duo
  
• Nora Kelly Band, a rising Montréal alt-country band.
  

The OST will be available for purchase here on Steam at launch for €9.99/$9.99. Like the game, the second half of the OST will be released alongside Tape 2 as a free update. There will be a bundle featuring Lost Records: Bloom & Rage and the OST and it will benefit from the 10% launch discount (until March 4) and an additional bundle 10% discount!

Speaking of music, you can now listen to five different official playlists of music picked by the game’s characters! There’s a playlist for Swann and each of her friends, as well as one filled with music that inspired their punk band, Bloom & Rage. Each girls’ playlist reflects their unique personalities and explores various genres of music, blending songs from their teenage years in the 90’s with tracks they’d listen to as adults in the 2020’s.

Swann’s playlist consists of movie OSTs, dream pop and chill/lofi music. Autumn’s is VGM (Video Game Music), chiptune, and ambient. Nora loves goth rock and punk, and finally, Kat’s playlist is made up of rock, punk, and grunge.

Check out all the playlists here: https://bento.me/bloom-rage.