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A downloadable game for Windows and macOS
After a long day of traveling to and from the market, you arrive home with your son, Nicholai. As you finish preparing dinner, an unsettling feeling washes over you; something is amiss. The once familiar rhythm of home feels slightly off. Nicholai is unusually quiet, and the shadows in the room seem to stretch just a little too far. You call out to him, but there's no response.
The narrative explores themes of motherhood, sacrifice, identity, and redemption, all set against the backdrop of an eerie, magical fae world. As you embark on this emotional journey, you’ll face difficult choices and haunting revelations, all while trying to protect the one you hold most dear.
Features:
20,000 Words
4 endings
| Name | Roles | Links |
| Doriana Othman (She/Her) | Lead Programmer, UI Programmer and UX Design | |
| Skyler Novak (She/Her) | Producer, Writer, UI Programmer and Voice of The Gate Creature | Twitch |
| Koijin_ | Character Artist | Twitch, Twitter |
| Type Forty Design | Background Artist | Carrd |
| AudioIgnis | Background Artist and QA | Twitch |
| Lukelex0 | Item Asset and Background Artist | |
| Sunshine | Voice of Nicholas and Nicholai | |
| Mika Antonakis (They/Them) | Voice of the Mysterious Woman | TikTok |
| FaeBound (She/They) | Voice of Portly Bella | Twitch |
| CharEatsBugs | QA | Twitch |
| Music and SFX | Online Public Assets | Twitch |
This was a game completed under a month as an entry for this year's
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Development log
- Post Jam Update49 days ago
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A lovely story, with some really lovely visuals and attention to detail in the transitions and camera work. Unfortunately the game crashed on me, at 'You reach inside your pocket and turn it inside out, revealing the hagstone'. Hope there'll be a fix so I can finish it and update comment here, and rate it on the jam :)
Yes! we caught the bug post submission to the game jam. We have a patch ready to go as soon as we can update :)
Update just went live, thank you for letting us know and for playing our game ^_^
Yay!
Congrats on making this game! :D I really liked the magic vibes in general and the story
Thank you so much!! It was a lot of fun and the team really pulled out the stops to make it come together <3