About the Game
A peaceful land has been overtaken by the dark wizard Cormac. Countless horrors hunt and kill those who try to escape. It is up to Edward, the captain of the guard, to defeat Cormac and save the kingdom.
Your quest begins just outside the castle walls in the graveyard. The wizard waits for you at the tallest tower. Fight your way to the top of the castle and save the kingdom from Cormac!
As you climb to the top of the Keep, you’ll face zombies, vampires, and other creatures that lurk in the darkness. Use crossbows, shotguns, or even a rocket launcher to dispose of them!
Juliet, a sorceress loyal to the king (or maybe just a certain knight in armor) will assist Edward on his journey. She can upgrade your abilities and sell you items or even help you craft weapons!
The Bleakest Keep is a highly replayable game. Test your skills and earn ranks based on your performance. Challenge yourself by aiming for higher ranks and faster times as you climb the Keep and defeat Cormac! Completing some challenges will unlock new outfits for Edward and Juliet!
Fight through 4 dark fantasy themed levels!
Over 30 weapons ranging from bows to shotguns to even frying pans!
Upgrade your abilities and increase your power!
Slay swarms of zombies and other dark fantasy creatures!
Highly replayable! Earn ranks and set new record times!
Complete challenges and unlock outfits for Edward and Juliet!
Unlockable survival mode allowing you to play as Edward, Juliet, and 4 of the game's bosses!
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
Changes
Changed A rank requirements for all survival mode characters and levels to be easier.
The final wave of the graveyard level will spawn faster and 3 regular zombies have been changed to fast zombies for all characters but Edward.
Edward's castle rooftop level has reduced stronger enemies.
Edward now has a faster movement speed in survival mode.
King Eadgar now has a higher chance his melee attacks drop ammo in survival mode.
Changed the chances of Gwen appearing from a 50% chance to a 70% chance after defeating Cormac at least once, and also made what usually blocks the path to Gwen more visible so it is more noticeable when it is no longer blocked.
Bug Fixes
Fixed the parry special attack not working correctly in survival mode when using unarmed or the heavy sword.
Fixed Juliet's heavy projectile sometimes not working. There is also no longer a cooldown, after a successful block Juliet's next melee attack will launch a projectile no matter how long ago she blocked an attack.
Fixed being able to enter enemy spawn areas in survival mode.
Enemies won't be able to reenter their spawn areas in survival mode.
Fixed enemies acting strange by some of the stairs in the dungeon survival mode level.
Fixed the invincibility on the roll paunch attack.
Fixed King Eadgar's first person view not using the correct animation.
Fixed hearing footsteps after being defeated in survival mode.
New
Added Vsync to the graphics option menu.
Updated the character model viewer to include some animations for a few characters and also change Juliet's emotions. Queen Elenid's model now also shows her weapon which can be toggled on and off.
The bosses, a few enemies, and outfits are not longer automatically available from the start. The outfits won't show unless you unlocked them, and the bosses won't appear unless beaten and some enemies won't appear until reaching a certain point. All models can be unlocked by either getting 10 game overs or beating Cormac 3 times.
I realized it was a bit of an oversight that showing these things in the model viewer was a spoiler and I don't want someone who first plays the game to open the model viewer and spoil themselves.
Changes
Changed ultrawide mode to Aspect Ratio in the resolution settings.
16:9
21:9
32:9
Flies should be much easier to hit with melee weapons.
Also slightly increased their hitbox.
Whenever a weapon breaks you will also gain 10 projectile ammo.
Made a small change to Cormac's model.
Bug Fixes
Fixed some mistakes for Edward's outfit 1.
Fixed motion blur inside the character model viewer.
Changes
Reduced screen shake when using the Lever-Action Shotgun.
Reduced screen shake when using the Repeating Rifle and increased its durability.
Changed the description for the parry special attack to mention that parrying can be difficult.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a spelling error for Armored Zombies in the character model viewer.
Bomb Launcher screen shake added.
Fixed the camera positions for Juliet's shop being incorrect while the ultrawide resolution setting is set to true.
Changes
Slightly increased the length of the heavy sword.
Club no longer has a longer regeneration time for special attack or dodge and will also now start with lucky hit.
Bug Fixes
Fixed opening camera settings disabling damage numbers.
Changes
Slightly increased some of Cormac's hit boxes.
Bug Fixes
Fixed some inputs possibly not being recognized by some players.
Bug Fixes
Corrected the regeneration speed of the dodge ability.
Changes
Increased skeleton hit box size.
How to unlock Juliet Outfit 5 description made clearer.
Bug Fixes
Fixed weapon names sometimes appearing as blank when automatically equip weapons is enabled.
Fixed some inputs possibly not being recognized for some players.
A few changes made to hopefully prevent rare crashes.
New
Added shortcut buttons for items when using keyboard. These shortcuts are bound to the number keys. This option can be enabled or disabled.
Health Potion
Speed Potion
Tricky Knife
Luck Potion
Wrench
Bomb
Changes
Added more options for keybinding.
Movement can now be changed to other keys.
Can now change inputs for swapping items.
Scroll wheel and extra mouse buttons are now accepted.
The menus for changing controls should now be more readable.
Separated the camera settings from gameplay settings.
When buying a weapon from Juliet it will automatically reload the weapon. If low on that ammo type you will also be given some extra ammo, except for legendary weapons.
Charge attack shouldn't damage enemy legs as often.
Bug Fixes
Fixed a problem where attacking after blocking an attack while aiming would cause a melee attack to happen instead of firing the ranged weapon being aimed.
Fixed attacking at the start of a roll stopping the roll.
Healing Revolver's description corrected to say it will heal 2 HP.
Fixed some menu navigation problems.
Changes
Throwing Knives special attack rework.
The throwing knives special attack functions a little differently now. Generally I am avoiding nerfing things, but the throwing knives were a bit too strong. There was also a bug that was making them even better.
The second and third upgrades for throwing knives now increases the damage of the knife. No more impacting nearby enemies or throwing 2 knives. However, now the knife deals more damage.
Increased the knife's fall off.
Regeneration time is slightly longer.
Fixed a bug where the knife would pass through and hit multiple enemies only when upgraded once.
The price of healing will now adjust if your health is in the 91-99 range.
Decreased the chances of zombies that spawn during the Queen Elenid boss battle.
Decreased Queen Elenid's speed when her health is low.
If playing on Linux or Steam Deck, the opening cinematic and outfit animated 2d images will now automatically be disabled and the text size for item/weapon names and prompts will be set to large. This only happens if you have not launched the game at least once yet. These options can be changed in settings.
Bug Fixes
Fixed being unable to rebind the drop weapon button for gamepad.
Fixed healing potions appearing as if they were not purchasable even if the player had less than 5 healing potions while using the More Healing Potions starting perk.
Fixed a bug where healing could heal over 100 HP.
Fixed speed potions contents remaining inside the bottle when the item is not consumed while under the effects of the luck potion.
Changes
Arachne's attacks can now destroy the columns.
Increased werewolf head hitbox.
Increased Cormac head hitbox.
King Eadgar should not attack at a distance as often as he was.
Quick Hands perk now mentions it increases your bow's reload time.
After 3 game overs a sign will appear at the start of the run. Reading it will give a few helpful reminders.
Bug Fixes
Moved a few misplaced barrels.
The intro cutscene should hopefully not drop frame rates as much.
Bug Fixes
One of the hidden coins had a duplicate coin of the same value nearby, which could cause confusion on how many coins were destroyed. This duplicate coin is no longer a problem.
Moved a floating object.
Sorry for the pretty annoying bugs involving inputs.
This latest patch should finally fix these issues. Please let me know if any of these problems remain.
Fixed getting stuck when asked if you want to pick up a weapon or not.
Fixed not being able to pause the game
Fixed rocket launcher not destroying the hidden coins.
(Already fixed in last patch but rebinding keyboard controls correctly updates again.)
Changed King Eadgar so he doesn't jump back as often.
If you're running into any cpu heating issues, I recommend locking your frame rate.
Hopefully this should fix some of the problems!
Current Release
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Uploaded Mar 09, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
TheBleakestKeep.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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