Michel Koch
@michelkoch.bsky.social
Studio Creative Director @ Don’t Nod Montréal • Creative Director of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage • Game director and Art director of Life is Strange 1 and 2 • BAFTA winner best narrative • Game Awards nominee
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I finished the first half of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage today and I am so shocked at how invested I feel.
I am usually more miss than hit with teenage girl characters and stores, but I can’t seem to get enough. I maybe wouldn’t like the characters personalities irl, but I’m so here for them.
I am usually more miss than hit with teenage girl characters and stores, but I can’t seem to get enough. I maybe wouldn’t like the characters personalities irl, but I’m so here for them.
December 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I finished the first half of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage today and I am so shocked at how invested I feel.
I am usually more miss than hit with teenage girl characters and stores, but I can’t seem to get enough. I maybe wouldn’t like the characters personalities irl, but I’m so here for them.
I am usually more miss than hit with teenage girl characters and stores, but I can’t seem to get enough. I maybe wouldn’t like the characters personalities irl, but I’m so here for them.
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proud to be included with so many fantastic writers! i wrote on probably my favourite game of the year, Lost Records: Bloom and Rage, and a bit about @nogamesforgenocide.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
proud to be included with so many fantastic writers! i wrote on probably my favourite game of the year, Lost Records: Bloom and Rage, and a bit about @nogamesforgenocide.com
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is my GOTY for 2025! 🎉👏
Overall strong year for video games, but looking back on all that I checked out, Lost Records still lives in my head, with its heavy narrative, memorable characters, excellent soundtrack, and impressive production quality.
Overall strong year for video games, but looking back on all that I checked out, Lost Records still lives in my head, with its heavy narrative, memorable characters, excellent soundtrack, and impressive production quality.
December 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is my GOTY for 2025! 🎉👏
Overall strong year for video games, but looking back on all that I checked out, Lost Records still lives in my head, with its heavy narrative, memorable characters, excellent soundtrack, and impressive production quality.
Overall strong year for video games, but looking back on all that I checked out, Lost Records still lives in my head, with its heavy narrative, memorable characters, excellent soundtrack, and impressive production quality.
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Started Lost Records finally and it really feels like a better attempt at Life is Strange so far wrt portraying awkward and complex teenagers. I’ve also never had a game call me out so hard on my autistic behaviour to the point that it gives me flash backs to adolescence like that.
December 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Started Lost Records finally and it really feels like a better attempt at Life is Strange so far wrt portraying awkward and complex teenagers. I’ve also never had a game call me out so hard on my autistic behaviour to the point that it gives me flash backs to adolescence like that.
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My top 3 games for 2025 in no particular order: Blue Prince by @dogubomb.bsky.social, lost records: bloom + rage by @dontnod.bsky.social and Eternal strands by @yellowbrickgames.bsky.social
Three very different games, all rich in story and lore, my favorite kind <3
What was your top 3 this year?
Three very different games, all rich in story and lore, my favorite kind <3
What was your top 3 this year?
December 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My top 3 games for 2025 in no particular order: Blue Prince by @dogubomb.bsky.social, lost records: bloom + rage by @dontnod.bsky.social and Eternal strands by @yellowbrickgames.bsky.social
Three very different games, all rich in story and lore, my favorite kind <3
What was your top 3 this year?
Three very different games, all rich in story and lore, my favorite kind <3
What was your top 3 this year?
So happy to see Amelia recognized for this prestigious award!
The #NewYorkGameAwards nominees for Best Acting:
🔵 Adriyan Rae - South of Midnight
🔵 Jennifer English - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
🔵 Amelia Sargisson - Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
🔵 Alex Jordani - The Alters
🔵 Judy Alice Lee - Hades II
🔵 Erika Ishii - Ghost of Yōtei
🔵 Adriyan Rae - South of Midnight
🔵 Jennifer English - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
🔵 Amelia Sargisson - Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
🔵 Alex Jordani - The Alters
🔵 Judy Alice Lee - Hades II
🔵 Erika Ishii - Ghost of Yōtei
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
So happy to see Amelia recognized for this prestigious award!
That’s awesome! Humbled by this recognition!
The #NewYorkGameAwards nominees for Best Writing in a Game are:
🔵 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
🔵 Avowed
🔵 The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
🔵 Mafia: The Old Country
🔵 Ghost of Yōtei
🔵 Blippo+
🔵 Lost Records: Bloom & Rage
🔵 Avowed
🔵 The Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy-
🔵 Mafia: The Old Country
🔵 Ghost of Yōtei
🔵 Blippo+
December 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
That’s awesome! Humbled by this recognition!
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Quite of an experience to live! Proudly representing Don’t Nod Montreal and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage @thegameawards.com with @michelkoch.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Quite of an experience to live! Proudly representing Don’t Nod Montreal and Lost Records: Bloom & Rage @thegameawards.com with @michelkoch.bsky.social
I’ll take that as a compliment!
playing lost records and it’s so gay
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I’ll take that as a compliment!
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Feel confident to declare my two personal games of the year to be Lost Records: Bloom and Rage and Silent Hill f.
Please play Lost Records it is so good.
Please play Lost Records it is so good.
December 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Feel confident to declare my two personal games of the year to be Lost Records: Bloom and Rage and Silent Hill f.
Please play Lost Records it is so good.
Please play Lost Records it is so good.
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So happy to see that Lost Records was named one of GamesRadar+’s best 25 games of 2025! Check out this interview featuring @lucbaghadoust.bsky.social and @michelkoch.bsky.social !
As our last EOY piece of the day – more tomorrow! – here's @ashleybardhan.bsky.social with a Don't Nod interview about Lost Records: Bloom & Rage:
Life is Strange developers made one of the most beautiful games of 2025, and it’s all because Lost Records: Bloom & Rage understands the magic of childhood
Year in Review 2025 | Don't Nod plays the magician, again
www.gamesradar.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:47 PM
So happy to see that Lost Records was named one of GamesRadar+’s best 25 games of 2025! Check out this interview featuring @lucbaghadoust.bsky.social and @michelkoch.bsky.social !
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Don’t Nod Montreal x Lost Records: Bloom & Rage... 🤝
The debut IP from the creators of the Life Is Strange franchise has made GameSpot’s list for the ‘best titles of 2025’ so far! 🙌
Lost Records was praised for its “authentic” coming-of-age story and “superb presentation.” 🔥
#LostRecords #DontNod
The debut IP from the creators of the Life Is Strange franchise has made GameSpot’s list for the ‘best titles of 2025’ so far! 🙌
Lost Records was praised for its “authentic” coming-of-age story and “superb presentation.” 🔥
#LostRecords #DontNod
December 8, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Don’t Nod Montreal x Lost Records: Bloom & Rage... 🤝
The debut IP from the creators of the Life Is Strange franchise has made GameSpot’s list for the ‘best titles of 2025’ so far! 🙌
Lost Records was praised for its “authentic” coming-of-age story and “superb presentation.” 🔥
#LostRecords #DontNod
The debut IP from the creators of the Life Is Strange franchise has made GameSpot’s list for the ‘best titles of 2025’ so far! 🙌
Lost Records was praised for its “authentic” coming-of-age story and “superb presentation.” 🔥
#LostRecords #DontNod
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Seeing Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, our first game at Don’t Nod Montréal , being part of the 10 Best Video Games of 2025 | TIME is a great honour 💜
time.com/7333802/best...
time.com/7333802/best...
The 10 Best Video Games of 2025
From Split Fiction to Death Stranding 2, here are TIME's top picks for video games of the year.
time.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Seeing Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, our first game at Don’t Nod Montréal , being part of the 10 Best Video Games of 2025 | TIME is a great honour 💜
time.com/7333802/best...
time.com/7333802/best...
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is such an incredible game - no studio is out there consistently putting out as many bangers as Don't Nod
December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is such an incredible game - no studio is out there consistently putting out as many bangers as Don't Nod
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@michelkoch.bsky.social @adnanriaz9.bsky.social
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage among NPR's picks for best video games of 2025.
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage among NPR's picks for best video games of 2025.
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff
From indies like Blue Prince to big console exclusives like Donkey Kong Bananza, NPR staff members and contributors round up their favorite games of 2025.
www.npr.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
@michelkoch.bsky.social @adnanriaz9.bsky.social
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage among NPR's picks for best video games of 2025.
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage among NPR's picks for best video games of 2025.
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
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Fawn's Rest
#LostRecordsBloomAndRage
#LostRecordsBloomAndRage
November 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Fawn's Rest
#LostRecordsBloomAndRage
#LostRecordsBloomAndRage
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@samkurd.bsky.social I’ve just got around to playing/finishing Lost Records: Bloom and Rage and I highly recommend it, if you can ever pick it up when you can afford a treat or it’s on sale or something. Swann is basically Max Caulfied but with a ‘95 camcorder, but I love her far more
a group of young people sitting on a wooden fence
ALT: a group of young people sitting on a wooden fence
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
@samkurd.bsky.social I’ve just got around to playing/finishing Lost Records: Bloom and Rage and I highly recommend it, if you can ever pick it up when you can afford a treat or it’s on sale or something. Swann is basically Max Caulfied but with a ‘95 camcorder, but I love her far more
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i really like that the magic in lost records remains mysterious and unexplained i dont get why ppl on reddit r begging for another tape to “explain” the mysteries, that would literally ruin all of the magic to it
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
i really like that the magic in lost records remains mysterious and unexplained i dont get why ppl on reddit r begging for another tape to “explain” the mysteries, that would literally ruin all of the magic to it
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(lostrecords spoilers) this is the most beautiful scene to me in a video game especially watching it happen on the big screen with all the lights off and having gone on such a crazy roller coaster ride… yeah youtu.be/XQiBaLbEOK0?...
(TAPE 2 SPOILERS) Bloom and Rage Dance Scene
YouTube video by Strange Wabbit
youtu.be
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
(lostrecords spoilers) this is the most beautiful scene to me in a video game especially watching it happen on the big screen with all the lights off and having gone on such a crazy roller coaster ride… yeah youtu.be/XQiBaLbEOK0?...
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Along with my lead Beatrix Moersch, I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by @daaaaaaaan.bsky.social and Dominic Caterina for their podcast @audiologs.ca to talk about our work on the game #LostRecordsBloom&Rage that we created at @dontnod.bsky.social. Happy listening, everyone! 🎙️
Had the pleasure of meeting with Beatrix and @juliengoyon.bsky.social earlier this month! They're awesome folks and this episode oozes passion and love for the latest game they've worked on!
//FULL EPISODE: OUT NOW//
Audio Logs 004 - Lost Records: Bloom & Rage with Beatrix Moersch and Julien Goyon
Beatrix and Julien of @dontnod.bsky.social joined us to talk about #LostRecords!
Links:
linktr.ee/audiologs.po...
#gameaudio #gamedev #podcast #audiologs #gaming #unrealengine #wwise
Audio Logs 004 - Lost Records: Bloom & Rage with Beatrix Moersch and Julien Goyon
Beatrix and Julien of @dontnod.bsky.social joined us to talk about #LostRecords!
Links:
linktr.ee/audiologs.po...
#gameaudio #gamedev #podcast #audiologs #gaming #unrealengine #wwise
November 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Along with my lead Beatrix Moersch, I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by @daaaaaaaan.bsky.social and Dominic Caterina for their podcast @audiologs.ca to talk about our work on the game #LostRecordsBloom&Rage that we created at @dontnod.bsky.social. Happy listening, everyone! 🎙️
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Lune (Expedition 33), Atsu (Ghost of Yotei), Swann (Lost Records: Bloom & Rage) and Melinoë (Hades II).
They were fantastic PoVs in their respective games, and wanting to see their journey through made me invested in their stories.
They were fantastic PoVs in their respective games, and wanting to see their journey through made me invested in their stories.
November 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Lune (Expedition 33), Atsu (Ghost of Yotei), Swann (Lost Records: Bloom & Rage) and Melinoë (Hades II).
They were fantastic PoVs in their respective games, and wanting to see their journey through made me invested in their stories.
They were fantastic PoVs in their respective games, and wanting to see their journey through made me invested in their stories.
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Thrilled to see that Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is nominated in the Games for Impact category @thegameawards.com ! Also so proud of fellow NYU Game Center alumni and category buddies @qdork.bsky.social and @despelote.game . Congrats to all the nominees!
November 17, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thrilled to see that Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is nominated in the Games for Impact category @thegameawards.com ! Also so proud of fellow NYU Game Center alumni and category buddies @qdork.bsky.social and @despelote.game . Congrats to all the nominees!
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Lost Records is up for a Game Award…. So proud of us 🥰 and thankful to all who have played!!
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Lost Records is up for a Game Award…. So proud of us 🥰 and thankful to all who have played!!
Vote if you were moved by Swann, Kat, Autumn and Nora’s story!
You can now vote for Lost Records: Bloom & Rage in the ‘Games for Impact’ category at The Game Awards 2025! 🗳️✍️
The Game Awards nominations were formally announced today and Don’t Nod Montreal’s first-ever title received a nod for an award... 🏆👏
You love to see it! 🙌
#LostRecords #DontNod
The Game Awards nominations were formally announced today and Don’t Nod Montreal’s first-ever title received a nod for an award... 🏆👏
You love to see it! 🙌
#LostRecords #DontNod
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Vote if you were moved by Swann, Kat, Autumn and Nora’s story!
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The Game of the Year nominations are up. Death Stranding 2 is the only one I would consider playing.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is my game of the year. That it didn't even get nominated for best narrative is ridiculous. Lost Records is one of those titles that people will look at as a classic.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is my game of the year. That it didn't even get nominated for best narrative is ridiculous. Lost Records is one of those titles that people will look at as a classic.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage on Steam
Embark on a new narrative journey by the creators of Life is Strange. Film your summer of 1995 and create memories of a lifetime with your new friends. 27 years later, confront the dark secrets that m...
store.steampowered.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The Game of the Year nominations are up. Death Stranding 2 is the only one I would consider playing.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is my game of the year. That it didn't even get nominated for best narrative is ridiculous. Lost Records is one of those titles that people will look at as a classic.
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage is my game of the year. That it didn't even get nominated for best narrative is ridiculous. Lost Records is one of those titles that people will look at as a classic.