The Historyof Bloodbath

That is the shortest version of Bloodbath history. It is also why the level still feels different from a normal old Demon. Bloodbath was not only difficult. It had tension. It had a failed ending. It had a comeback. Then it had silence.

Today, Bloodbath is no longer the hardest level in Geometry Dash. It has been surpassed many times. But difficulty alone is not why people remember it. People remember the story.

Before Bloodbath became Bloodbath, there was another project: Silent Akbar. It was later renamed Tartarus, and it was connected to Cyclic and Aurorus. The idea was ambitious, but the difficulty became unrealistic for the time. The project stalled.

Bloodbath came from that same old-generation hunger: make something darker, harder, and more memorable than what came before. The first preview appeared on June 2, 2015. A fuller preview followed on July 6, 2015. By then, the community understood that Riot was not just building another hard level. He was building a statement.

Bloodbath was a mega-collaboration hosted, verified, and published by Riot. That format mattered. The level did not have one authorial voice. It had a line of creators, each leaving a mark on the route.

The soundtrack was At the Speed of Light by Dimrain47. Over time, that song became inseparable from Bloodbath. Hearing the opening seconds still pulls many players back to the old Demonlist era.

For a gameplay-focused route through those creator sections, see the Bloodbath Parts breakdown.

The progress did not arrive all at once. On June 26, Riot reached 48%. On July 13, he reached 58%. On August 3, he reached 65%. On August 6, he reached 90%.

Two days later, he reached 94%. Then the run ended.

Riot came back four days later. On August 12, 2015, after more than 25,000 attempts, Bloodbath was verified. The video would go on to become one of the most watched verification moments in Geometry Dash history.

Verification did not open the floodgates. It closed them.

Nobody beat Bloodbath for seven months.

Quasar began showing progress in February 2016. Surv, fresh from completing Cataclysm, started pushing hard too. The race became its own story. Surv crashed at 96%, one of the most painful fails of his career. Quasar kept going.

On March 13, 2016, Quasar became the first victor. The moment came with drama, jokes, and apologies afterward, but the important part was clear: Bloodbath could be beaten by someone other than Riot. It had taken seven months to prove it.

Bloodbath entered the Demonlist as the level to beat. It was the top of the old world: red, brutal, long, intimidating, and famous enough that even players who could not dream of clearing it knew the name.

Bloodbath reshaped what an Extreme Demon could feel like. It was not just a difficulty contest. It was a spectacle, a benchmark, and a warning: the community was ready to push much further.

On August 14, 2016, Sakupen Hell replaced Bloodbath at #1. The throne was gone, but the descent took years. Bloodbath dropped out of the Top 10, then the Top 20, then the Top 30. On December 10, 2018, SINGULARITY pushed it off the main list.

On January 29, 2021, Alpha Baa X pushed Bloodbath into the Legacy List. It was one of the symbolic endings of the 1.9 era. The level that once looked impossible had become history.

Bloodbath still matters because it is more than its ranking. It is one of the most downloaded and liked Extreme Demons ever. It placed second in the Geometry Dash 10-year anniversary favorite level vote, behind Change of Scene.

Its legacy also continued through Bloodlust, the harder remake verified by knobbelboy after 121,296 attempts. Bloodlust made the lineage explicit: Cataclysm, Bloodbath, Bloodlust. A family of red nightmares, each one trying to outgrow the last.

Want to try the original? Start with How To Beat Bloodbath, then return to the level when the story turns into your own run.