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Laika: Aged Through Blood
Developer Brainwash Gang
Laika: Aged Through Blood is a 2023 2D side-scrolling Metroidvania video game developed by Brainwash Gang and published by Headup Games. The game, set in a Western-style post-apocalyptic world, follows Laika, an anthropomorphic coyote, as she tries to protect her family and village from the encroaching Bird empire. She journeys through the game world on a motorcycle, which the player accelerates and rotates to ride… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
421 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
87
LovedLoved
241 positive · 37 negative
95% range 82–90%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 241 | 37 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 49 | 1 | 88 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
3,459 of 3,749 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
A divisive, emotionally brutal motorbike Metroidvania with unique gameplay and deep story.
Players are split on Laika: Aged Through Blood, with many praising its innovative motorcycle-based gameplay, beautiful art, and powerful, bleak story, while others find the controls frustrating and the difficulty punishing. The game is described as a 'Marmite' experience that demands patience. [1][3][6][11][12][21][22][26]
The story and emotional impact are widely praised, with reactions calling it 'emotionally devastating' and 'one of the saddest moments.' However, some criticize the game for feeling 'edgy just for the sake of being edgy' and for having boss fights that are 'long and there's no checkpoints.' Technical issues like game-breaking bugs are also noted. [2][5][9][17][20][23][35][36]
Praised unique gameplay · art direction · music · story · emotional impact
Criticised high difficulty · frustrating controls · boss fights · edgy tone · technical bugs
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Laika: Aged Through Blood sits at 87% positive across 278 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Laika: Aged Through Blood received "generally favorable reviews", according to the review aggregator Metacritic. Critics highly praised the gameplay, though the difficulty had a mixed reception. Brendan Graeber of IGN, Elijah Gonzalez of Paste, and Andrea Scibetta of The Games Machine all highly praised the challenging gameplay, and enjoyed the mechanical difficulty and excitement of trying to shoot, dodge, deflect, reload, and land the motorcycle all in continual sequence, even if it resulted in repeatedly dying, partially due to the frequent checkpoints. Other reviewers had similar opinions on how fun controlling the motorcycle and fighting enemies was, but different opinions on the…
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Reactions
60 of 421 · most liked firstFinally got around to touching these guys up but here ya go! Theses are side characters from the game "Laika: Aged Through Blood" fan art pics I've been working on during my streams. I THINK I got it out my system but we'll see lol.
neutral · AI labelView post →Does this work? Seriously? Procreate GameMaker Aceprite Miro Google Workspace Sheet of paper Liner pen Sketchbook Html5 Web game Video game development Little games DnD Ghibli Laika JRR Tolkien Michel Gondry Wes Anderson Tomm Moore
neutral · AI labelView post →Laika: Aged Through Blood is out on Switch, and I cannot recommend this game highly enough, it's an incredibly unique "Motorvania" where you play as a coyote biker mom in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, it's gorgeously animated and has one of the best soundtracks ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHJj...
positive · AI labelView post →[C] Laika from the eponymous video game, but now she's a lifeguard! 😀 If you like this, please consider supporting my work at patreon.com/mykegreywolf!
neutral · AI labelView post →Laika: Aged Through Blood launches next week and to celebrate we're giving you the chance to win: 🔥 Nintendo Switch Console 🔥 Laika: Aged Through Blood on Nintendo Switch (+ two extra game keys for your family, friends or community!) Enter below: gleam.io/fDRqA/laika-... Ends January 30th.
neutral · AI labelView post →I got a new plushie, it's Puppy from the game Laika: Aged Through Blood by @brainwashgang.bsky.social 🐺
neutral · AI labelView post →Laika from Laika:Aged Through Blood! How many time i gotta say that you must play the game asap, just pure art and feels! So I got this from @gallygallo.bsky.social , thanks a lot!
positive · AI labelView post →Laika Sketch commission for HelixCoyote Character from the game Laika: Aged Through Blood
neutral · AI labelView post →Cannot believe it's been a year since Laika came out. Love this game a lot, check it out!
positive · AI labelView post →I love Laika but I think they have historically had an issue with writing screenplays that feel like watching someone play a video game, like that “collect the three orbs and proceed to the boss fight chamber” approach to establishing stakes, but Wildwood left enough mystery to avoid that
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry for popping out for a bit here! Have been working without a day off nearly everyday these past two months, snagged a steamdeck while it was on sale, & just had my first few days off since. Quite like it, managed to play through all of Laika: Aged Through blood in these few days! Great game!
positive · AI labelView post →Added Laika: Aged Through Blood to my Steam curator page, this gets a huge thumbs up! Very challenging game, with an extremely bleak setting, and it has a phenomenal soundtrack. store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/...
positive · AI labelView post →The more I sit on it, the more convinced I am Laika: Aged Through Blood is my favorite video game. Like, period. It made me cry more times than any other game, and that is a perfect rationale for choosing your favorite.
positive · AI labelView post →don't know how I forgot about Laika: Aged Through Blood but I'm playing it for the first time and oh god this game is too fucking good
positive · AI labelView post →From the game “Laika, Aged Through Blood”. Absolutely fell in love with the story. 10/10. Im not normally into metroidvania’s but this one really took me back. #furry #laikaagedthroughblood #furryart #art
positive · AI labelView post →Could use some good indie game recommendations for the switch from folks? Just beat Tunic, nearly done with Outer Wilds, and next on my list was Laika but looks like that one was removed/postponed. Looking for things with exploration focus, not too big on side scrollers.
neutral · AI labelView post →LAIKA: AGED THROUGH BLOOD - "Family" mini comic! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVOURITE GAME EVER!!! love it to death, if you haven't played it already, YOU HAVE TOOOO!!! It'S SO GOOD!! #Laikaagedthroughblood #comic #fanart #birthday #art #furryart
positive · AI labelView post →38. Laika: Aged Through Blood I'd urge folks to try the demo for this, 'cos the controls take a little getting used to for this extremely unique "motorvania", but once it clicks? You're in for a phenomenal game with one of the best soundtracks ever. store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/...
positive · AI labelView post →Laika fixing her bike Played the game a year ago and only now drawing her. Biker Coyote Mom deserves some love. #Fanart #LaikaAgedThroughBlood #FurryArt
neutral · AI labelView post →Had been playing Laika, the coyote mom on bike game. Wip #furryart
neutral · AI labelView post →in a coincidence with today's retro gaming news, I started playing Quintet's Planet Laika last night. Almost like if a ps1 era final fantasy game was entirely a psychological horror ADV game instead of an RPG. I am really digging it.
neutral · AI labelView post →As "homework" for my next commission piece, I started playing the game Laika: Aged Through Blood. The game is quite good, but probably more difficult than what my 50 year old fingers and brain can handle. 😔 I'm interested in playing Mina the Hollower, but I fear it might be too hard for me as well.
neutral · AI labelView post →The game calls itself a "Yoyovania" and I'm really here for that concept; all of the key upgrades and abilities are centered around learning new yoyo tricks. Much like how Laika: Aged Through Blood styled itself as a "Motorvania" and a lot of progression in that game is centered around the bike.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spent the last two weeks working on artwork for LAIKA, our entry to a mech themed game jam! In a post-apocalyptic world, animal pilots called Laikas take control of massive war machines in humanity's final struggle to survive. #gamedev #art #scifiart #gamejam #MechJam
neutral · AI labelView post →I finished @brainwashgang.bsky.social’s Laika: Aged Through Blood last night, and wow, the game is genuinely phenomenal. The narrative on fascism, Beícoli’s music, the gameplay, and the stunning visuals really make for an unforgettable experience. (It also made me cry like 10 separate times)
positive · AI labelView post →Just a goat riding their bone bike to bird town, no biggie Fanart of @brynth.bsky.social's Laika playthrough (with a @lightyeen.bsky.social cameo). Super rad looking game #LaikaAgedThroughBlood #furry #art
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you ever played and finished a game that you instantly knew was gonna be a favorite of yours? Laika: aged through blood has done that for me! I don't think i will forget this game, especially the excellent soundtrack. high recommend ^^ #furryart #fanart #brainwashgang #LaikaAgedThroughBlood
positive · AI labelView post →This is...a weird one. You're either going to be into the game's crazy Trials-meets-Metroid gameplay, or you're not. Same goes for its tone, story and progression. It's a Marmite game. Laika is a game about violence, and despite the aesthetic providing some distance it's actually one of the most violent games I've played in recent years, to the point I'd warn people who might be sensitive to that sort of thing. Put it this way: the very first thing that happens in the game, the opening scene,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On Day 2 we got up to $1420 💖 It turns out I have a lot of stream energy in me because I've done two 9 hour streams in a row now 😅 might need to try and limit myself. Our game wheel had us play Dispatch, Laika Aged Through Blood, and Castlevania Aria of Sorrow. All were really great :D
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the way! @superraregames.bsky.social now have a proper solution for the game-breaking bug we discovered in Laika PS5. Either choose to patch the game and receive a discount for your next order OR REQUEST A REPRINT! Determined to do the right thing. Mad props to them!
neutral · AI labelView post →Laika: Aged Through Blood is such a good game. Y'all should play it
positive · AI labelView post →My beloved oc Laika who should be in the next game I make, once I finally get to that #oc #art #visualnovel
neutral · AI labelView post →Sketch to see if I could do Laika justice. Bikes are hard! Both in the game and to draw...! #art #LaikaAgedThroughBlood
neutral · AI labelView post →Pitching our indie game! Dogwood is a Cooking Action RPG where the battlefield is the wilderness and the home is a restaurant you built from nothing. Inspired by games like Undertale / Deltarune, Laika: Aged Through Blood, and Spiritfarer store.steampowered.com/app/3682380/ #BluePit #🎮 #W #YA #F
neutral · AI labelView post →Planet Laika episode out! It’s a PS1 sci-fi horror adventure game about humans who look like dogs, confronting trauma after encountering an alien consciousness on Mars.
neutral · AI labelView post →Completing this game should earn you a visit from one of the devs to come give you hugs and aftercare because it is mean, rude, abusive, and then as a reward you get EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATED.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Laika frustrates me. In some ways, it's a great game: the art is fantastic, the music is amazing, the story is interesting, and the gameplay through levels is mostly pretty fun once you get used to it. In other ways, it's poorly designed. For instance, all of the boss fights are against giant creatures, which often causes the game to zoom out... which makes it difficult to see your character. In a game where any hit kills you, spinning is required for defense and reloading, and hitting your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Speedpaint commission for Philian199 from FA~ Based on: "Laika: Aged Through Blood" game
neutral · AI labelView post →I need to do some Laika - Aged Through Blood fan art someday, what a beautiful atmospheric game
neutral · AI labelView post →The art direction is amazing, simply phenomenal. The score, is great.....but it does get repetitive, whereas midway through it becomes less and less special. Those are the positives, that is it. Gameplay is horrific, and is my biggest issue with this game. The game is in substance very short, but it will take the player some time to realize that all the side-quests are worthless, the rewards are common trash you can either buy, or just get naturally from certain areas of the map from crates…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is just not fun to play, half the time platforming feels like a chore rather than a fun mechanic. Game needs to be perfect to work with all the bs it deals to you and I'm sorry to say it doesn't control perfectly. And to add insult to injury you add the stupid souls losing money mechanic? to a game where platforming is a chore that could lead to insta death and you die in one hit? You disabled that during boss fights so clearly you knew no one wants to lose progress to bs like that I beat…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Skill issue. Clearly. But I don't seem to be alone, looking at the achievement numbers. 65% of people playing this game don't get past the first boss. 52% don't get past the second (maybe optional?) boss. I'm now at the fourth itteration of the third boss, and I see how to do it, but you need to be so precise and not make any mistake that I will need another 50 tries to do this boss. I've finished Silksong 100% and did one of the speedrun achievements, so I'm not new to difficult games, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So through the grapevine of the internet I found out today that the weird space dog game Vinny Vinesauce played called Planet Laika was written by the guy who wrote for SMT3 Nocturne lmfao
neutral · AI labelView post →Great game. unfortunately there is a game breaking bug that happens well into the game. (Roy harpoon glitch). The only way around it is if you start from scratch. Apparently it has been around for a few years, with no updates from the devs there are also a number of things that could be made better with quality of life changes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Couldn't complete the core mission "Floating" - after collecting the two necessary items and completing every other side quests over several in game day cycles, the mission still asks me to get the two items. Interactions with the quest giver result in the same dialog as when I had neither of the items. This game seems to have several concurrency bugs: things like changing screens or interacting with more than one thing at a time appear to trample what is happening before it gets registered.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I put a Laika on my Game Boy Camera, does this count for #CrappyCommieCameraParty?
neutral · AI labelView post →enjoyable dirtbike-vania. challenging combat but plenty of checkpoints makes it quite forgiving. interesting story, written with a deep hatred of imperialism, a cultural artifact for our times
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’m so amped to announce to release of Even at Star-Time, a #visualnovel jam submission for #Spooktober2026 by the talented team at Butterfly Rocket Studios. I make my debut as a voice actress in this game as Laika! #gamejam #indiedev #twitch butterflyrocket.itch.io/even-at-star...
neutral · AI labelView post →Neva. A free to use OC for the Laika fans. The idea was for her to lead an on foot metroidvania set long before the events of the game, an ancestor of Laika. The game's community remains alive through fan content so only fair she is fan content material fuel too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Had to turn the music in Laika off - it was genuinely making me cry too much to play the game lol
positive · AI labelView post →Planet Laika is a good game. Planet Laika is also a game I really need to lie down after playing for an extended period of time
neutral · AI labelView post →So @shinyzoro230.bsky.social downloaded the Cardfight Vanguard game and I’ve been showing her the way~ (I’m so sorry Laika)
neutral · AI labelView post →Laika: Aged Through Blood for Switch launches January 30 The long-delayed Switch version of Western-inspired “motorvania” game Laika: Aged Through Blood will launch on January 30, publisher Headup Games and developer Brainwash Gang announced announced... www.gematsu.com/2025/01/laik...
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is AMAZING -- would HIGHLY recommend. "Laika - Aged Through Blood". It controls so well, and holy hecc makes me wanna cry at times.
positive · AI labelView post →Hello! My name’s Omelta and I just wanted to greet all who end up stumbling upon my account! I joined Bluesky to share art, meet other artists, and be in a community of peeps! I’m also a huge fan of the game Laika: Aged Through Blood made by Brainwash Gang (If you haven’t played it, you should!)
positive · AI labelView post →Happy Mother's Day to the video game mom of all time Laika
neutral · AI labelView post →!!!!WARNING: BLOODDDDDD!!!! I was commissioned again for Scarletabyssal's Laika fanfiction! Because this commission is heavily inspired by Laika: Aged Through Blood, I'd like to take a moment to appreciate Brainwash Gang's game!! go check it out when you get the chance :3 #commission #art #furry
neutral · AI labelView post →My friend @masterbishop.bsky.social wrote a solo TTRPG about the final hours of Laika orbiting the Earth. You will cry just by reading it. Go play it now! www.drivethrurpg.com/es/product/5...
neutral · AI labelView post →Loving Laika? We’ve just dropped a snippet of an upcoming dev interview with Brainwash Gang that’s being featured soon on Game Rant! Check it out here: 🔗 thunderfulgames.com/laika-aged-t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Laika: Aged Through Blood [Switch - 82] www.metacritic.com/game/laika-a... "Now that the Switch version Laika: Aged Through Blood has finally arrived, it can finally join Hollow Knight, Animal Well, and Blasphemous II as a true modern classic in the Metroidvania genre." - Nintendo Life
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