This game is so addicting , my first time playing it was probably year and a half ago , and I couldn't stop playing it since then . whenever I feel down or bored I play one of the guys routes , it always cheers me up , and the more I play the more I fall in love with this game . if you asked me which one of the guys is my fav , I wouldn't be able to pick because I seriously fell in love with all of them , everyone of them has a unique side that I absolutely adore GOD I love them sm <3 . I relate with a lot of characters in this game it's insane . I wish I can ERASE MY MEMORY so I can play it again for the first time .
Ngl, when I first downloaded the game, I was playing for 6+ straight hours….🥲🥲 I love the game, the characters, all the dialogue and even the music! 👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The moment i open this game i get hit by a BANGER SONG, This song just hit different, I definely want to see is their a full version of the song from the menu screen
It's because of the censor. Bloombot manages everyone and censors all personal info, if you insistently try to send it though, you might get banned. There is no private messaging function! So that's why. Hope this didn't sound passive aggressive!!
broo why is toasty so pretty like - the last picture in his route got me like - DAMN *edit* nawr the bonus stories r calling for me to get all the routes 😏
Fr tho, I never thought I would be that invested in a game like this. Usually these games in this genre wouldn't appeal to me AT ALL, but damn, I got a little embarrassed for me to find myself hooked onto these characters rq, their personalities and stories are really authentic and compelling. At first I went for Quest cuz he mad fine, but hot damn I wasn't really expecting to be THAT into owl and xyx. They got me ova here kicking my feet and shi. 10/10 would recommend.
I played through all routes, and I have to say that your game is so unique and beautiful! All stories were so wonderfully crafted, and I felt so many emotions while playing! Thank you so much for your hard work, this was an awesome experience <3
That is great! Although at first I got a bad ending for xyx, nightowl and xyx are my favorites!!<3
They have more or less many photographic experiences and lows, but through my help they can get the warmth they expect, and I will be happy about it!! Sometimes I even feel like they are real, eager for love like a child, and I do everything I can to protect them.
Through their eyes, I seem to see childhood, paranoid but full of innocence. When we are walking alone on the journey, we can never refuse such a companion. This is the moving part of this game, making me feel loved.
I came across Bloomic on a game rec list and when I read the "depressed day-in and day-out from a draining corporate job, you become invested in a fantasy webnovel" bit of the description I thought ah, finally an MC who is 100% me, so ofc I had to play it.
And you effin' delivered, damn. I loved everything about Bloomic, and I mean EVERYTHING. The setting? *chef's kiss*. The tracks (that we can change)? Living in my brain now. The fandom discord server dynamic? Spot-on. The zine, oh my gods, and the art too, that's just such a very fandom thing, and on a scale from cute to outright gorgeous too. The voice acting that at some points had me going "omo, dangerous >////<". And of course, first and most important--
--the characters. So relatable, and I genuinely had fun with all of them, and I sent a screenshot of one of toasty's lines to my very straight guy friend who's a blond FFXIV freak catboy to tell him I found his game alter ego. I have a fav route but I liked playing all of them, the good and the bad ends, and in each of them was something that made me care enough to lowkey want to know these people irl. My only tiny little regret is that onion doesn't have a route, because hell do I get attached to people who use proper spelling and punctuation even in chats. (I'm. Not kidding. Anyway--)
I also went through your profile to see if I can please throw some money at you for this epic gem but I see you've got that covered lol so I'll honor your wishes and donate instead :) I just! Would have! Given you a kidney probably! If you wanted. Really love the game, A+ job, all the virtual cookies for you and the whole team. Will replay whenever I'm feeling down from my mess of a job (which has been often, recently). Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Characters, art, dialogue, story, format, voice acting... It's all amazing! What started as "I guess I'll kill some time with this?" turned into an entire day of laughter (and well placed sad & awkward scenes). Till now I'd played VNs but shrugged when they were over (or didn't finish)... but this one had me enthralled. I was very surprised by characters who I didn't think I'd be into. My singular criticism is that tying ...life changing endings to whether the MC reciprocates affection or not felt uncomfortably forced. Wouldn't change the 5/5 rating for that tho! I loved it. Thank you.
I admit I'm not a super experienced discord user (I have used it though!) but I did use its grandpa IRC a lot back ten years ago and this game brought me back to those times so hard I am seriously considering downloading discord again to relive the magic. Logging on at night, spending until the early morning just chatting with a close-knit bunch of weirdos, all of us with our distinct flair and our own backstories, seeing stuff go down in the communities we were part of and getting up to mischief is something that I dearly miss, and this game just made me feel like I was back in one of my fav IRC rooms back in 2011.
I cannot emphasize enough just how well written the characters are. The voice acting is incredible. The way the plot unfolds is great, and each route has enough challenge without feeling like one needs to second-guess every choice the whole way through. I managed to get all good endings on my first try not because it was easy - but rather because the characters felt so real and so much like folks I knew that it was impossible not to know how to score favorability.
I think my favourite route was xyx only because I'm a fellow chaotic troll and also loved the character design!! Followed by Toasty since I'm also a software developer so I definitely vibe with his issues haha
Anyway massive thanks and kudos to the entire team for such a fantastic game, I'm off to replay xyx's route now lol!!!
This game is absolutely beautiful and the characters feel so real. They have so much depth and facets to them that make them who they are. The interactions are also very accurate of a discord server haha. I’ve played all of the available routes but not all of the endings. They were all so good! Nothing was the same but that did not by any means diminish the experience. Again, I love this game and if you haven’t played it yet then you should…especially if you like romantic visual novels!
PLEASE tell me there will eventually be an onion route. I got so hyped during the nightowl route that we were hearing more from him.
My favorite route overall was probably xyx, though. And toast. Just something about the two driest chatters in the server made me extremely interested and I immediately wanted to figure them out. This was such a good game!!!
everyone...i love this game so much. i just had a special gummy so let's all just buckle up before i feel too weird about this. spoiler free!!! :)
design/concept this game had me missing my active discord days. like, everyone's still there, we all still are in the same servers, but we all just...got busy. had to deal with life. moved. lost someone and had to take a step back. etc etc. i'm biased i KNOW but this game hits my soul in such an interesting way that i don't really know how to fully describe yet. babes i'm going to be thinking about this one for years.
i can tell a lot of work was put into this from people who spend time in that space. that weird little discord space on the internet that makes you check your phone during work or class and start a hundred dumb inside jokes. everyone knows a xyx. everyone's met a nightowl or an onion, but they're not caricatures, they're done lovingly and with intent.
music/sound this is probably the third game i've kept all the sound and voices on for. i really, really, REALLY love the music, especially Logging Off, Chilltalk, Please Don't Go, and Let's Goooo. at first i was just going to write how much i like having literally any track on in the bg for 12 hours, but when i went to find my favs, i was super impressed at how they all connect in some way, whether it's instrument, motif, progression, etc. a lot of them have different main percussion that make it easier to remember what you're listening to.
each track is distinct and conveys a different emotion, but never sounds out of place. even the stuff that comes out of left field works well (maybe a didgeridoo in brb restart?? which might be a nod to xyx????? if so ily)
plot (spoiler-free) listen don't be a little goblin like me and go straight for xyx. or maybe do, whatever. but go do quest and nightowl after that and only THEN nakedtoaster. it would have been so easy to just have the same story for each route but we got actual plot here, folks. we got INTRIGUE! we got CONFLICT! we got CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! slurp it up mama MIA pizzaria hooWEE!!!!!
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I LOVED IT SO MUCH!! ABCUJADB
it was so cute i played it atleast 10 times already!!
nightowl was soooooooo adorable when he was drunk!
This game is so addicting , my first time playing it was probably year and a half ago , and I couldn't stop playing it since then . whenever I feel down or bored I play one of the guys routes , it always cheers me up , and the more I play the more I fall in love with this game . if you asked me which one of the guys is my fav , I wouldn't be able to pick because I seriously fell in love with all of them , everyone of them has a unique side that I absolutely adore GOD I love them sm <3 . I relate with a lot of characters in this game it's insane . I wish I can ERASE MY MEMORY so I can play it again for the first time .
Man sometimes I can be really dramatic . Like chill it's just a game . Um so anyway SIKKKKEEE BEST VN GAME EVER .
I just finished my first play through!
It was so good, I don't know how I can every find a game this good again :,(
(When I finished I might've shed a tear or two)
this game is so incredible that I can't describe in words
also, now that I finished all the routs I am completely empty inside, because I know that every game that I play after this, won't be as good.
thx to everyone involved in this project, for giving me this amazing experience!
(i will left aside that i got myself crying in all routs.)
absolutely love this! so excited to explore the other routes now :')
No bc I'm IN LOVEEEE WITH THIS GAME DWHUFIFHEHCUHIDH I LOVE LOVE IT <33
I AM ACRUALLY CRTING SOBBINGN FIEF INGG IIONG STIP WHYD YOU DO TGUS RGEY FEEL REAL
the game is so cool i love all the love interests!! it would be amazing if we got new routes though like onion or biglady :)))
I Have Never Been So Attached To A Character In My Life.
Quest my beloved fr fr
Ngl, when I first downloaded the game, I was playing for 6+ straight hours….🥲🥲 I love the game, the characters, all the dialogue and even the music! 👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The moment i open this game i get hit by a BANGER SONG, This song just hit different, I definely want to see is their a full version of the song from the menu screen
plz tell me how to play Quest!No matter how I try, it's still Nightowl now ;^;
You have to keep clicking on the options that are on the left that favor his route. Also, disagree with what Damien did
Hope it works,thank you!
I'm in the middle of the game still but why do none of these people use private messages... awkward.
coulve sworn they said it doesn't exist in the server or sum lol
I missed that haha it's just funny like "damn you're really airing this all out right here in front of everyone..."
I think thats why they call you alot also, lmao
It's because of the censor. Bloombot manages everyone and censors all personal info, if you insistently try to send it though, you might get banned. There is no private messaging function! So that's why. Hope this didn't sound passive aggressive!!
broo why is toasty so pretty like - the last picture in his route got me like - DAMN *edit* nawr the bonus stories r calling for me to get all the routes 😏
I am absolutely in love with this concept and the characters!! This was so cute! I've only done Quest's route but damn am I excited for the rest!
Fr tho, I never thought I would be that invested in a game like this. Usually these games in this genre wouldn't appeal to me AT ALL, but damn, I got a little embarrassed for me to find myself hooked onto these characters rq, their personalities and stories are really authentic and compelling. At first I went for Quest cuz he mad fine, but hot damn I wasn't really expecting to be THAT into owl and xyx. They got me ova here kicking my feet and shi. 10/10 would recommend.
p.s: plz i would really like a sequel or spinoff with more dialogue options
(I need more of them pease)salo best character out of the entire game. 10/10
You're real for this
I played through all routes, and I have to say that your game is so unique and beautiful! All stories were so wonderfully crafted, and I felt so many emotions while playing! Thank you so much for your hard work, this was an awesome experience <3
xyx and toasty will always be my favs!!
Agreed 🥹🥹
That is great! Although at first I got a bad ending for xyx, nightowl and xyx are my favorites!!<3
They have more or less many photographic experiences and lows, but through my help they can get the warmth they expect, and I will be happy about it!! Sometimes I even feel like they are real, eager for love like a child, and I do everything I can to protect them.
Through their eyes, I seem to see childhood, paranoid but full of innocence. When we are walking alone on the journey, we can never refuse such a companion. This is the moving part of this game, making me feel loved.
Thank you!!!^^
I came across Bloomic on a game rec list and when I read the "depressed day-in and day-out from a draining corporate job, you become invested in a fantasy webnovel" bit of the description I thought ah, finally an MC who is 100% me, so ofc I had to play it.
And you effin' delivered, damn. I loved everything about Bloomic, and I mean EVERYTHING. The setting? *chef's kiss*. The tracks (that we can change)? Living in my brain now. The fandom discord server dynamic? Spot-on. The zine, oh my gods, and the art too, that's just such a very fandom thing, and on a scale from cute to outright gorgeous too. The voice acting that at some points had me going "omo, dangerous >////<". And of course, first and most important--
--the characters. So relatable, and I genuinely had fun with all of them, and I sent a screenshot of one of toasty's lines to my very straight guy friend who's a blond FFXIV freak catboy to tell him I found his game alter ego. I have a fav route but I liked playing all of them, the good and the bad ends, and in each of them was something that made me care enough to lowkey want to know these people irl. My only tiny little regret is that onion doesn't have a route, because hell do I get attached to people who use proper spelling and punctuation even in chats. (I'm. Not kidding. Anyway--)
I also went through your profile to see if I can please throw some money at you for this epic gem but I see you've got that covered lol so I'll honor your wishes and donate instead :) I just! Would have! Given you a kidney probably! If you wanted. Really love the game, A+ job, all the virtual cookies for you and the whole team. Will replay whenever I'm feeling down from my mess of a job (which has been often, recently). Thank you, thank you, thank you.
(sorry for the bad spelling)
how do I get the good end for xyx??
it seams to me, no mater what opshin i pick, he gives me the bad end!!
i whont to see him happy!!!!
Hi, I'm not the author but they posted a guide to the route here :)
https://robobarbie.itch.io/blooming-panic/devlog/326192/xyx-walkthrough
You got 0 rizz lmao
It's incredibly difficult to get his good end for some reason lmao. Had no problems with all the other routes but xyx was a tough nut to crack.
Characters, art, dialogue, story, format, voice acting... It's all amazing! What started as "I guess I'll kill some time with this?" turned into an entire day of laughter (and well placed sad & awkward scenes). Till now I'd played VNs but shrugged when they were over (or didn't finish)... but this one had me enthralled. I was very surprised by characters who I didn't think I'd be into. My singular criticism is that tying ...life changing endings to whether the MC reciprocates affection or not felt uncomfortably forced. Wouldn't change the 5/5 rating for that tho! I loved it. Thank you.
I admit I'm not a super experienced discord user (I have used it though!) but I did use its grandpa IRC a lot back ten years ago and this game brought me back to those times so hard I am seriously considering downloading discord again to relive the magic. Logging on at night, spending until the early morning just chatting with a close-knit bunch of weirdos, all of us with our distinct flair and our own backstories, seeing stuff go down in the communities we were part of and getting up to mischief is something that I dearly miss, and this game just made me feel like I was back in one of my fav IRC rooms back in 2011.
I cannot emphasize enough just how well written the characters are. The voice acting is incredible. The way the plot unfolds is great, and each route has enough challenge without feeling like one needs to second-guess every choice the whole way through. I managed to get all good endings on my first try not because it was easy - but rather because the characters felt so real and so much like folks I knew that it was impossible not to know how to score favorability.
I think my favourite route was xyx only because I'm a fellow chaotic troll and also loved the character design!! Followed by Toasty since I'm also a software developer so I definitely vibe with his issues haha
Anyway massive thanks and kudos to the entire team for such a fantastic game, I'm off to replay xyx's route now lol!!!
I LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH!! I've reached every good ending (4 of the 8 endings) and I was wondering if someone could help me get the last 4!!
y cant i get in the gameee
tell me why I cried after finishing toast’s route… I will definitely never forget this game
This game is absolutely beautiful and the characters feel so real. They have so much depth and facets to them that make them who they are. The interactions are also very accurate of a discord server haha. I’ve played all of the available routes but not all of the endings. They were all so good! Nothing was the same but that did not by any means diminish the experience. Again, I love this game and if you haven’t played it yet then you should…especially if you like romantic visual novels!
Easily my fav game. By far.
PLS MAKE AN ANDROID VERSION I'M ON MY KNEES BEGGING U😭
PLS READ THE COMMENTS HERE THIS HAS BEEN ADDRESSED https://twitter.com/robo_barbie/status/1605134047285456897
Why can't I get into the game?
I tried 5-6 times but didn't work TT
PLEASE tell me there will eventually be an onion route. I got so hyped during the nightowl route that we were hearing more from him.
My favorite route overall was probably xyx, though. And toast. Just something about the two driest chatters in the server made me extremely interested and I immediately wanted to figure them out. This was such a good game!!!
hello! Could someone tell me when the game will receive other languages? such as Portuguese, Spanish etc.
I feel really annoying to ask this but is there any idea in making an android version?
Give JoiPlay's legacy mode a shot, most users who have tried it report good results.
ok thank you very much
I am having a bit of trouble I don't know what to do could you help me
https://twitter.com/robo_barbie/status/1605134047285456897
I just replayed Xyx and Toast's routes again...I love this game!
Also, I really love Salo and Lady!
I love it
everyone...i love this game so much. i just had a special gummy so let's all just buckle up before i feel too weird about this. spoiler free!!! :)
design/concept
this game had me missing my active discord days. like, everyone's still there, we all still are in the same servers, but we all just...got busy. had to deal with life. moved. lost someone and had to take a step back. etc etc. i'm biased i KNOW but this game hits my soul in such an interesting way that i don't really know how to fully describe yet. babes i'm going to be thinking about this one for years.
i can tell a lot of work was put into this from people who spend time in that space. that weird little discord space on the internet that makes you check your phone during work or class and start a hundred dumb inside jokes. everyone knows a xyx. everyone's met a nightowl or an onion, but they're not caricatures, they're done lovingly and with intent.
music/sound
this is probably the third game i've kept all the sound and voices on for. i really, really, REALLY love the music, especially Logging Off, Chilltalk, Please Don't Go, and Let's Goooo. at first i was just going to write how much i like having literally any track on in the bg for 12 hours, but when i went to find my favs, i was super impressed at how they all connect in some way, whether it's instrument, motif, progression, etc. a lot of them have different main percussion that make it easier to remember what you're listening to.
each track is distinct and conveys a different emotion, but never sounds out of place. even the stuff that comes out of left field works well (maybe a didgeridoo in brb restart?? which might be a nod to xyx????? if so ily)
plot (spoiler-free)
listen don't be a little goblin like me and go straight for xyx. or maybe do, whatever. but go do quest and nightowl after that and only THEN nakedtoaster. it would have been so easy to just have the same story for each route but we got actual plot here, folks. we got INTRIGUE! we got CONFLICT! we got CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT! slurp it up mama MIA pizzaria hooWEE!!!!!
10/10 welcome to post bloonini life, traveler
I reaally enjoyed plaing this game, it was an relatable and amazing experience. Thanks to the people who put all this hard work into this save space:3