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HU JIA XI · Published by HU JIA XI
Content notice: Including the visual presentation of human corpses.
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Last updated 28 Sept 2026
'Paid By Blood' is a linear 3D visual novel with a top-down and fixed camera perspective, decorated by a few battles. Play as Scout No.3, venturing deep into dangerous zone to find the path leading to Ground Zero. Search and find everything interactable for clues.
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Adventure, Indie, RPG · 2025 · More under £5 games
Venture into perilous territory as Scout No.3 in Paid By Blood, an immersive 2025 indie adventure where every clue could lead you closer to Ground Zero. Navigate through treacherous zones, uncover secrets, and make choices that shape your journey.
About this game
'Paid By Blood' is a visual novel with a top-down and fixed camera perspective, supplemented by a few battles. You will play as Scout No. 3, venturing deep into dangerous zone to uncover the path leading to Ground Zero.
The total text volume of the game is approximately 50,000 Chinese characters (excluding punctuation marks).
Most texts can be freely chosen for reading or not. Your reading progress and choices will not affect the ending.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-9600KF
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia RTX 2060
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 11 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Not tested.
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5-11600KF
- Memory: 16 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 6800
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 11 GB available space
- Additional Notes: This is the configuration of the development machine
Supported Languages
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Patch NotesOfficial
Performance Optimization
The performance of Level 3 has been optimized. 1. Added a simple level loading mechanism. Now, the corresponding buildings will only be loaded when they are close by. Since it is not an asynchronous loading, there may be a short period of lag during loading. 2. Reduced the model quality of Level 3. Significantly reduced the number of faces of some high-precision models. 3. The trees in Level 3 now sway with the wind. 4. Removed the loading buffer interface as it causes abnormal loading behavior. In case of any bugs, you can switch to the "release_windows" branch. This is an older version that is guaranteed to work properly (on my computer).Read full article on Community Announcements (ShockmaN)Patch NotesOfficial
[Update]20251215
Now can set fullscreen and resolution in settings menu. In windowed mode, you can change window's size, just use alt+tab to switch the application and resize.Improved chapter 3's cutscene's performance. It does not lower GPU memory cost, the game still costs 7GB GPU memory.Read full article on Community Announcements (ShockmaN)Patch NotesOfficial
[Important Update] Fix for CVE-2025-59489
An employee of GMO Flatt Security Inc, RyotaK, found a vulnerability of Unity Runtime. This vulnerability affects almost all kind of version of unity engine.According to one's description, this vulnerability allows malicious intents to control command line arguments passed to Unity applications, enabling attackers to load arbitrary shared libraries (.so files) and execute malicious code, depending on the platform.Unity official claims that, there is no evidence of any exploitation of the vulnerability nor has there been any impact on users or customers.Following unity official guidance, I've updated engine version, and rebuilt application.Not knowing if there's any BUG after updating, therefore I kept the old version of application. You can get the old version by accessing release_windows branch. Please notice: the old version has CVE-2025-59489 vulnerability, the consequences are at your own risk.References:安全更新公告 --- Security Update AdvisoryCVE-2025-59489: Unity 运行时任意代码执行 - GMO Flatt 安全研究 --- CVE-2025-59489: Arbitrary Code Execution in Unity Runtime - GMO Flatt Security ResearchCVE 记录：CVE-2025-59489 --- CVE Record: CVE-2025-59489Read full article on Community Announcements (ShockmaN)
