r/BloodbornePC

For some strange reason, I can't get grabbed by the Amygdala. So, I can't start the DLC. I have the Eye of the Blood-drunk Hunter, but even before I got it, I couldn't get grabbed. Not sure if anyone else ran into this issue.

I wasn't sure if I would be able to get this running on my Legion Z2 Go especially with it being the 16gb windows model. It took a little bit but things seem to be running really well! Never thought I'd be playing this game on a handheld!

I’ve always considered Bloodborne to be an amazing soulslike, although I wholeheartedly agree that the original PS4 release was not without its problems, including a stuttering framerate and egregious boss runbacks that could be frustrating.

The emulation scene has been trying for years to get the game working smoothly on PC, and I’m happy to say that in 2026 they’ve not only finally done it, but also added a host of visual and quality-of-life improvements that have turned an already great game into a full-blown masterpiece and one of the best soulslikes ever made.

Now let me start by reassuring the technophobes : getting Bloodborne up and running on PC took me all of fifteen minutes following a simple video the link to which you can find in the description of my youtube video review. You can push the resolution up to 4K, but I opted for 1440p which allowed for a silky smooth 60fps and lightning-fast load times, even during the hectic boss encounters.

I also installed two mods, the first to get the right button prompts for my xbox controller (heresy, I know), and the second that places Elden Ring-style respawn points (ironically called Marika lamps) before every major boss to eliminate those annoying runbacks. Of course, purists can disable all mods entirely, but after losing minutes of your life getting back to Shadows of Yharnam or Logarius several times in a row, you’ll be wishing you hadn’t.

And just like that, I was back in Yharnam again, although now it looked even crisper and more beautiful than before, from the incredible gothic structures stretching up to reach the blood-tinged sky, to the hordes of moaning, beast-like creatures cavorting through the dimly lit side streets to tear my face off.

The setting is the first thing that sets Bloodborne apart from Fromsoft’s other dark fantasy games, and its various lovecraft-inspired locales are stunning to behold, from the aforementioned Yharnam to its forests, churches, sewers, and obligatory fishing village. It’s also a living, breathing place that evolves over time, especially after a game changing event that happens about halfway through, transforming an already bleak environment into a horrific cthulian nightmare.

The level design is arguably fromsoft’s best, cramming shortcuts and hidden paths into every available space. The individual levels are smaller in size than a traditional dark souls game, but spread outwards vertically as well as horizontally, taking you up vertiginous towers and down into underground passages, all that invariably loop back on one another or spiral off into new areas. You’ll never quite get lost, but you’ll almost always be presented with a myriad of different paths to take.

Bloodborne also has far more optional areas than any of the other games, and the ways to get to some of these are so obtuse I doubt most players will find them on their first playthrough. Hemlock Grove, for example, is easy enough to find if players decide to take a left in front of the cathedral gates, but both the Hypogean gaol and the Lecture Hall require you to be seemingly killed by some of the game’s enemies, which is not easy to work out.

The second pillar in any good souslike is the combat, and fromsoft have once again hit it out of the park here by taking the combat of Dark Souls, making it twice as fast, and adding a cool firearm-based parry system that would go on to inspire the excellent Sekiro. They also introduced a great new mechanic where any health lost can be regained by damaging an enemy which, much like Sekiro’s posture meter, forces you to be constantly on the offensive if you want to keep your health topped up.

The icing on this delicious combat cake are the trick weapons, another wonderful idea that I’m surprised hasn’t been imitated in other games. Every single weapon has two different forms that can be switched with the press of a button, allowing you to adapt to different situations. The Hunter’s Axe, for example, can change between a short, chopping blade and a wide, sweeping halberd, whereas Ludwig’s Holy Blade transforms from a stabbing longsword to a massive two-handed greatsword. I’m a strength-build aficionado so I stuck with both of these weapons for most of my playthrough, alternating styles depending on whether I was facing fast or slow enemies. It’s useful, it’s fun, and you look like a bad-ass while doing it.

And boy-oh-boy will you need to use every trick in the book to beat this game. I remembered Bloodborne being hard when I played it way back in 2015, but I’d forgotten just how hard it can get. Enemies can take off a third of your health in a single hit. Crowds of infested creatures stun lock you so you can’t heal. You’ll get pushed off cliffs, stuck in corners, and grabbed by disgusting monstrosities that will suck your brains right out of your skull. I’d also forgotten the lamps that serve as bonfires are more sparsely placed than in other souls games, leading to up to fifteen or twenty minutes at a time without being able to bank my lovely blood echoes.

This difficulty extends to the bosses, a mix of massive beasts and agile humanoids that will give you a run for your money. Luckily, I always found them to be hard but fair (save, perhaps for the Orphan of Kos), with well-telegraphed attacks I could eventually work out and punish with a dodge or parry. Maria (one of the DLC bosses), and the first of the two final bosses, were the two standouts for me, up there with some of the very best of what Fromsoft has to offer.

I think Sekiro is overall slightly more difficult, only because there is not way to mitigate that difficulty, whereas in Bloodborne, like most Fromsoft games, you have various ways to make things easier. If you’re playing on PS4 or PS5, you can summon other players to help you out, for example, although on PC multiplayer is not yet available so you’re currently stuck with the game’s built-in NPCs. The other option are Chalice Dungeons; massive, multi-level labyrinths accessed from the hub area using specific items gained from killing bosses. These dungeons can be tough but provide a treasure-trove of blood echoes, items, and even unique bosses not found in the base game so are well worth exploring.

There are many other minor systems to explain, such as insight, visceral attacks, support weapons, the covenant system, weapon upgrading, and runes that offer you passive buffs, but this review is already getting long so I’ll eschew diving too deep to focus instead on the last thing that makes Bloodborne great: the lore.

All my favourite games, from Mass Effect to Bioshock to Lies of P, have one thing in common: excellent worldbuilding. I love it when developers don’t just create an environment to play through, but go the extra mile to fully flesh out its people, places, and history. Bloodborne is no exception, drawing from interesting themes like addiction, religious oppression, and human transcendence to create a coherent whole.  

As for the story, well, as always, the path to hell is paved with good intentions, starting with the discovery of a curative substance known as Old Blood. This was used both by the Church and the Scholars for its healing and evolutive properties, until, as you can imagine, an undiscovered side effect began turning people into beasts. You are a Hunter, sent to Yharnam to end the plague and, cryptically “escape the dream.”

It's the perfect set-up, imbued with just the right amount of information and dangling threads waiting to be explored, and by the end of the fifty or so hours it will take you to awaken from the nightmare you’ll discover just how bad things have become.

FromSoft could have just churned out another Dark Souls game after the success of the first two, but instead they took a chance, risking it all on something faster, more aggressive, and steeped in gothic horror. And now, after ten years and close to 8 million copies sold, we can unequivocally say they were successful.

Any and every souls fan owes it to themselves to play this game. With the recently closed studio Bluepoint revealing that FromSoft are not interested in a remaster or remake, the only way you can experience this masterpiece is on PS4, PS5, or PC, and I would definitely recommend the latter, with it’s higher resolution, perfect framerate, faster load-times, and game-changing mods elevating Bloodborne to even greater heights.

As for me, it’s not quite my favourite FromSoft game, but it’s close, ending up just below Sekiro on the S-Tier.

I've got the pkg file for the game but when I try extracting it with BBLauncher, the launcher just closes. When I check the folder that the extracted file should be on, I find a CUSA03173 folder that's only 11 megabytes. The game won't start, an error pops up saying "eboot.bin not found" when I try launching it. I'd really appreciate any help since I have absolutely no clue what to do. I will provide any information that mitght be needed

Edit: I found out what you need to do, just download an older BBLauncher to extract the files (on this site https://github.com/rainmakerv3/BB_Launcher/releases scroll down a bit and download a version like 13.07, everything should work then)

I like the lore, gameplay and vibe, just not sure about performance and graphics

First time in Yharnam. Not a souls newcomer. :D I've cleared DS1, 2(yeah 200hours wasted here), 3, Elden Ring and Sekiro but Bloodborne is giving me feelings I don't have the vocabulary for yet.

I haven't finished the first boss. After his transformation the game just became an attrition test of my willingness to keep going, not a skill check. Which is frustrating because I did figure out the game's language I recognized it punishes passivity, switched from defensive play to something more patient and deliberate, and actually started making progress.

But one question has been eating at me: is this just what Bloodborne is?

I'm 23, I work, study and run personal projects on the side. Everyone around me treats this game like a sacred text. But I genuinely have no interest in hitting my head against a wall just to access the world and lore. The attrition cost feels real and I need to know if there's a point where the game starts trading fairly with me or if this is just the deal the whole way through

Basically I keep crashing when trying to hit the wolf at the beginning of the game and want to know what I can do to fix it?

The game usually runs at 90 FPS in some areas, but in the district, it drops to 30 or 40 FPS. Is this normal because of the enemies? Or am I missing a setting?

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Finished the game today and man, what a ride. Ended up doing the DLC after the main game because this genius here >!killed the Moon Presence first, so my dumb a** had to sprint through Central Yharnam in NG+ just to get into it..!<Totally worth it though. Definitely in my top 10 games of all time.

I'm trying launch the game. I've followed this video here

https://youtu.be/8qqYyNLL01Q?is=0Ism9IcjEv53vycj

Step by step, and downloaded the game and update files from the official Bloodborne PC discord server. I did everything according to the video and guides i searched for. But i still have this problem!