Although Serenity Forge began as an indie developer, the Colorado-based company is usually known more as a publisher of other indie titles. It's, however, not just about funding or marketing but also about co-development, whether that's handling coding, art, or writing. It's then always been honing its skill sets to get back to developing its own projects, such as the upcoming Fractured Blooms.
If there's one game this cosy life-sim has in common with the company's past collaborations, it's undoubtedly the subversive cult masterpiece Doki Doki Literature Club by Team Salvato, which Serenity Forge worked on the game's expanded Plus! edition. That was, after all, a game that presented itself as a visual novel with cute anime characters, but it also explicitly included trigger warnings about its disturbing content. Fractured Blooms is set in the life-sim genre that many consider to be cosy, where you also appear to take the role of an anime girl. But from its first announcement trailer at last year's Summer Game Fest, something is also clearly off.
