Bloodletter has grander ambitions.

“Only thy bathhouse stands as a bastion against the creeping corruption.”

It sounds like a mixture ofPathologicandBlack BookandPentiment.

A medieval-style illustration of a seated woman being treated for sickness using Tarot-style cards. The scene is full of bright and mildly revolting colours.

Here be’est the trailer.

In Bloodletter you play a “barber-surgeon”.

As stipulated, you operate out of a bathhouse, making you a barber-surgeon…pool attendant?

Cover image for YouTube video

I write all this in almost total ignorance of how medieval society defined and distinguished caring roles.

In any case, everything you do is handled via the medium of cards.

There are over 80, with gloriously manky art, plus six especially powerful blessing and curse cards.

One of the demons lives in a statue and invades people’s dreams.

I’m trying to work out which Tarot cards I’d prescribe for that.

Perhaps theNine of Swordsfollowed byStrength?

There’s also the recently released Lovecraftian doctor simDo No Harm.