#Narrative Game

[tispyyyyy]

For some unknown reason, tumblr terminated that account. This is my new back up account.

THE CRUEL PALACE (Court Intrigue IF)

Being born into a noble family is a blessing to most. For you, it became a sentence.

When false accusations threaten to destroy your family, you're forced into a dangerous decision: enter the royal palace as a concubine to prove your family's loyalty and protect their name. But life behind palace walls is nothing like the noble life you knew. It’s a world ruled by secrets, schemes, and power plays—where trust is rare, and betrayal is everywhere.

As the child of a respected civil official, your fate was supposed to be different. Now, you're caught in the middle of court politics, royal jealousy, and the lingering scandal left behind by your mother. The only way to survive is to play the game and win.

Will you rise through the ranks and gain the Emperor’s favour? Or will you lose yourself in the cruelty of palace life?

Your choices will decide your future, your family's honour, and the legacy you leave behind.

Key Features:

Play as male or female, and shape how the world sees you—from your looks to your personality.

Make choices that matter—every decision affects your future and your family’s fate.

Explore life in the royal palace, filled with secrets, lies, and unexpected allies.

Build or break relationships with other concubines, servants, nobles, and even the Emperor.

Choose who you trust—and who you love—romance the Emperor, a fellow concubine, a sharp maidservant, or a rising military officer.

Balance duty and desire—stay loyal to your family, or chase your own path to power.

Uncover the truth behind your family's downfall and your mother's scandal.

DEMO Approx 11k words

FORUM

[qwertyprophecy]

You are the Dark Queen—the most powerful being of your entire universe. Your lair is breached by an aspiring hero—a pitiful thing, easily crushed.

Except they keep coming back.

PLAY ON ITCH.IO

[twoandahalfstudios]

Introducing Florian, the first potential love interest you'll meet in our newly announced shop-running game, The Willowmist Emporium of Antiques & Curiosities!

Though a little moody, beneath his complaints you might find a heart of gold (get a shovel, we're gonna be digging) 🥰

Go wishlist The Willowmist Emporium of Antiques & Curiosities on Steam if you like running a store, rolling some dice and smoochin' some people 😎

[bubbydarkstar]

the guy who did SUBWAY MIDNIGHT (finally) made a new game!

SHOOTY SHOOTY ROBOT INVASION 🤖💢coming JULY 10TH

- 200+ NPCs to have terrible conversations with!

- 50+ robot types to murder!

- 6 wacky levels to explore!

- 1000s of hand-drawn sprites!

WISHLIST NOW, IDIOT!

[norapotwora]

Some time ago I had the pleasure of working with jonoldblood /Oldblood Games on an amazing project. It was a wonderful collaboration - thanks Micah! - in which I was tasked in designing 15 rabbit characters for Moonbriar - a narrative-driven, dark fantasy visual novel.

Here are five of the characters: Piper, Aster, Sedge, Salvia and Sola.

It was a wonderful experience to be part of the team building a larger project of this kind. Character desing is definitely a field I'd like to explore more in the future.

Will you dare to take part in the adventure? You can follow and wishlish the game on Steam!

Swipe for more characters 🐾

🐇 Let me know which one is your favourite and why! 🐇

[six-legends]

"I'm sad it's over!"

All these reactions are taken from non-sponsored livestreams.

Six Legends doesn't leave people unaffected.

So, we're proudly collaborating with content creators who played the game and loved it!

Six Legends is a 3D narrative game filled with minigames that tells the coming-of-life story of six dragons living in an isolated society.

Befriend each of the six characters, as they individually grow and discover more to the world they live in, breaking the mold and getting tangled in an endless web of lies and deception.

Comedy, drama, love, friendship, war, culture, acceptance, and more, Six Legends will make you live through the adventure of six lifetimes.

Available on Steam or Itch

Try the free demo or get the full game !

Special thanks in no particular order: LunarBuho, @jamejarrs , @pocketparas , StanRenart, SebbySpresso, BarleyTheBurr, RickWhitechest and OkayDonuts

[forsythiaproductions]

Ending Soon! 😱💖

All your support means the world, thank you for being here with us! Of Sense and Soul is our Queer Victorian Romance visual novel and it has...

Two lives, one love story 🎩👓

Victorian setting 🕰️

Soft queer romance 🌈

Slow burn pining 🔥

Happily ever after 💖

Help us make Of Sense and Soul a reality and back our campaign here! 💪

(Backing is just one way to support the game; you can reblog & like this post to help us with our community challenges, too!)

Play our demo | Get our newsletter | Send us an ask 💌

[manonamora-if]

NOW A JAM~!

The Summer of Translations

Following responses on my summer project, The Summer of Translations is now a jam on itch! So if you want to tag... come join :)

The Summer of Translations is a summer-long chill jam about showing off all the cool languages you speak! Well... write...

Whether it is translating a previously released project or creating a new game from scratch, let's add variety in the narrative sphere by sharing stories in non-English languages!

Spend the summer juggling languages!

Only know English but still want to participate? Or not a creator but want to translate something? Teams are allowed! Post here to find one.

[milosiristudio]

The trailer for our game Nightfall Café is out! ☕ As a new little studio, support is more than welcome, we'd really appreciate if you could watch it for the algorithm, share, or spread the world. ❤️ Stay tuned; Steam page coming soon to wishlist it!

Thank you, from Milosiris team 🌱

Trailer on Youtube

[thehallstara]

The A.D.A.P.T. Entries is an episodic game in 12 parts from @staradavid. Equal parts interactive fiction and narrative adventure, what will ensue is a space thriller about Judiasm, the building and falling of communities, the necessity of resisting dehumanization, and how even the best of intentions can be twisted in the face of systemic corruption and unaddressed prejudices. The first entry will release January 30th, with the consecutive entries releasing on the last Thursday of each month in 2025.

The A.D.A.P.T. Entries follow Rivkah Kadish, a Jewish woman born in what was once west Montreal but raised on The Ostera, the final flagship on the AQA Inaugural Expansion fleet making a forty year journey to the TRAPPIST-1 system. As the ship’s path nears it’s end, join her as she explores her upbringing, falling in love, the less-than-savoury choices she’s had to make as a member of AQA’s adaptation team, and the secrets she’s uncovered over the years. It will be found at staradavid.itch.io, and updates can also be found at staradavid.bsky.social and adapt-aqa.bsky.social.

The past year of my life has been spent planning, researching, and beginning to develop this project, and I'm so excited to start sharing these stories with the world, in whatever forms that may take.

[only-knives]

Sometimes I wanna play a game but need something simple but interesting... So I wanted to share my favorite itch.io games (click the link if you don't wanna read the post, I'll update it as I play more!). Some of these games mean a lot to me and have helped me through rough spots. They're all free to play on your web browser <3

Six Cats Under by Team Bean Loop "A little point-and-click puzzle game where you rescue your herd of cats by directing them with your poltergeist powers."

Good Morning! by cnnmon "A short morning routine simulator about starting your day right. Play through a few colorful minigames and puzzles until you're ready to take on the day."

Lookouts by paranoidhawk *** "A romance visual novel about two gay trans masc outlaws in the old west, finding refuge in each other, and a little hope for a better life."

Goodnight Meowmie by DDRKirby *** "A narrative game combining elements of both the virtual pet and horror genres."

Goodbye Doggy by Picogram "A browser game made in HTML5. Help your family cope with your death as a ghostly dog!"

Soft Underbelly by Rosa *** "A browser narrative game made in HTML5. Take a break. Talk to your cat about friendship, trust & care."

Purrgatory by Niv *** "A visual novel about passing time in an afterlife where nothing really matters. explore a whimsical point-and-click world, befriend seven charming characters, and remember — furever's not so bad!"

B-e-e-t-l-e by Loafy Co. "A typing game minus the chaos and the anxiety. Type at your leisure and enjoy a chill, relaxing adventure filled with retro scenery."

Happy Cat Tavern by Courier Cat Studio "A cat themed typing game" -- tip: for calm playing, use practice mode! there is still a word & time counter though, you're not on any time limit or combo constraint <3

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Anyway that's all. Asterisk'd (***) are my top favs. Have fun, explore itch.io, and mind the trigger warnings where applicable <3

[doodlemancy]

just dropped a big update for Iron Company, my big WIP visual novel project. the current demo is the whole first chapter, about 2 hours' worth of story, and i think even in its unfinished state you will have a good time :)

At the climax of a desperate war for farmland, John Sykes and Petra Raskoph fought a duel to the death. Dragged away to safety by their comrades, both of them survived. A year after the end of the war, they meet again by chance; Sykes, directionless, depressed, and running low on cash, and Raskoph with a dangerous but lucrative job offer that neither of them can afford to turn down.

platforms: pc, mac, linux, playable in-browser on mobile genre: mid-apocalyptic / horror / comedy / fantasy / enemies-to-friends / found family is there gay stuff?: who do you think i am. (disregard previous sentence if you don't know who i am.) of course there's gonna be gay stuff!!

it's free on itch.io!!

[letmeremindyouvn]

And here's the game I've been working on for Pirate Software's game jam!! :D

You work as a researcher for the mysterious Daedalus Laboratory. You send plants into different worlds to see how the worlds affecting them. However, recently you noticed that most of your coworkers have disappeared, including your lab supervisor.

Still, you have to keep working to prevent termination. Will you be able to balance work and communicating with the employees who remain?

[Warning: This game contains brief depictions of blood and gore. Viewer discretion is advised.]

This game is part of the Let Me Remind You series that I am working, which are games about art, nostalgia, guilt, and memory.

This game also features some new characters to the Let Me Remind You universe and...Zecharias in a new outfit? Hmm.

Due to the deadline, the game is a demo and has a few issues I need to fix. I will try to fix them in the next update. As it is, the game is completely playable, and I hope you will enjoy it. ^^

[blerdyotome]

Murder Mystery, Best Served Cold is Now Live on Steam

Can you mix a cocktail while eye-to-eye with a criminal? Find out in Best Served Cold, a murder mystery set in a bustling speakeasy where you serve customers, make friends and enemies, and solve crimes. At the Nightcap bar, prohibition is a killer… and so are some of your customers! Get Best Served Cold on Steam Official Site Continue reading Murder Mystery, Best Served Cold is Now Live…

[romanhyacinths]

Inspired by Greek mythology and T.S. Eliot, WAITING FOR THE DEATH WIND is a short visual novel created by yours truly in a week for #dialoguejam 2025 by @neointeractives.

Fully voice acted! Original music! It's free! What's not to love! Play it in-browser here: https://roman-hyacinths.itch.io/waiting-for-the-death-wind

[toadlett]

New book is here! I'll have this book of 5 rituals for TTRPG, all based off pre-christian traditions in the British Isles, at Tabletop Scotland next weekend!

It's also up on my itch in digital form!