Ensnared Bloom

Made for the 2026 Spooktober 8th Annual Visual Novel Jam.

Responding to a strange call, Anna Ashfield, a local police officer, is sent alone to investigate the location in the midst of a storm. As she approaches the large mansion, nothing seems out of ordinary at first, but she'll soon find out that she's in for a lot more than she signed up for...

Features:

• Evil Residents (?)
• ~9k Words total
• Approximately 1 hour of gameplay (?)
• Parallax ✨
• A whole lotta pixel art (Will be refined in the future at some point probably*)
• 2 Endings
• Various CC0-CC4.0 Assets, Music, and SFX
• Alas, the usual, absurd amount of random assortment of references to other media

Content Warnings:

• Blood
• Violence
• Death
• Crude Language
• Body Horror
• Descriptions of Trauma/Abuse/Neglect
• The potential for sadness I guess

Credits:

Game Jam Team:

• a_odorii - Art
• Charles Mesa Cayobit - Storyboard Assistance
• graduisc - Art
• NoodleDonut - Project Management, Story, Programming
• Nox - Art Lead
• ZillaHaon - Art

Additional Credits/Assets Used:

• Text/Dialogue Bleeps Pack by dmochas
• Salmon Family by Phildjii
• Pencil Writing On Paper Sound FX by Ryan Lloyd(Modified)
• RPG Audio by Kenney Assets
• and LOTS of music and SFX from Pixabay! (Please see in-game credits for details, there's way too many)