If you’ve ever wanted to take on the role of a plague doctor (and then some), The Planar Danse has your game with their newly-announced paranormal investigator RPG, Blight Doctors. Coming to Steam in Q1 2027, players take on the role of an occult detective & gravekeeper, banishing ghosts and curing plagues in co-op play. Currently, you can sign up for future playtests via the Steam page.
As a grave-watcher & occultist, you have come to the plagued-ridden city of Seracheim, which has seen many risen corpses , but not a single sunrise in many years. Using your skills as an exorcist, you must stem the tide of curses that afflict the city, with the hopes of turning the tide against apocalypse at any cost.
In order to accomplish your mission, you’ll need to deduce and banish. When you discover what sort of spirit haunts Seracheim, you alone must be the one to exorcise it, by any means necessary. Exorcise spirits and excise the rot within the city, and you’ll see every character and building react each night to the changing set of curses and your choices.
Each successive night in the city will see a new set of hand-crafted, procedurally-placed stories and curses fill the city streets. These narrative pieces all interact, and can take the shape of plagues, monsters, haunts, and mysteries.
Blight Doctors is a co-op game at its core, balanced for 1-5 players. Share clues, split up, or protect each other with lantern light and salt lines. You can also perform medicinal cures and mix elixirs for each other. If you should die on your quest, you can haunt your fellow plague doctors as a ghost, and continue to collect clues. Of course, when others die, you can use their corpses for experimentation, or for offering to demons.