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Content Warnings
Death of a partner (off screen), death of a child (off screen), dismemberment (text only), violence (text only), assault (text only), gore, body horror
Log Line
With intricate artwork and a haunting soundtrack, this is a story of loss, sacrifice, and what it means to be a monster.
Team Credits & Cast
Game developer - indooranimal, Story/dialogue - Laurie, Art/animation - tine5, Music/sfx - Zeo, Game director - randomdooodle
Work Start Date
1st September 2026
Which engines and/or plugins did you use? (NaniNovel, Light.VN, etc.)
Ren'Py
University League Participant
No
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Comments
The pixel art backgrounds were gorgeous, oftentimes I wished I could hide the textbox to admire them more. The little details of the textbox changing for each character were really nice, as were all the different masks that the villagers wore and the gradual reveal of the lore and monsters. The choices felt pretty intuitive when it came to collecting the items and the moral choices associated with them, so I easily reached the endings I wanted ^^
Only thing was the lack of a skip button when replaying the story for more endings T.T
All in all, interesting lore and very cohesive artstyle, this entry felt very complete!
Thanks so much for the kind feedback and for playing the game!! :D Very happy you enjoyed it!!! we are looking to do an update fairly soon where we add the option to hide the text box as well as a few other things and some small fixes! I'll have a look at a skip button as well and see if we can do that, or something to help with replaying!
(copied from game page)
What a treat it was to play this game. It felt like a dark fairytale. The visual style is very well polished and comes together neatly. The prose supports the atmosphere. Some phrases I really liked to read, like:
"Trees rise around you like the bars of a great cage, their twisted trunks thick with with moss and lichen."
This game lets you experience the story, slowly introducing the world and giving the player/reader enough time to put what is happening together before revealing it. Loved exploring it and meeting all its mysterious characters!
Wow, thank you so much, I'm so glad you enjoyed it - and huge thanks for highlighting the phrase you liked, I really appreciate it :D
I realllly loved the story! Especially the structure, I loved how everything is set up so that it feels almost like a folk-lore style storytelling -- collect items, use those items to bargain with monsters, and in the end its those items that help you reach a goal. As an aside, not sure if this is intended but I also really enjoyed how in the bad route, where you kill the monsters to take its features, it's presented as the protagonist sewing it onto themselves... which is stereotypically a very feminine/housewife associated skill, but here it's what makes you deranged and monstrous. With a really cool animation too!
I replayed a few times to get the endings, I love the different variations in what happens at the very end. And!!! The pixelart is very gorgeous and wonderful!!!!
Thank for you making this game!
Thanks so much!!! :D Really glad you enjoyed it and thank you for the lovely feedback and for playing the game!! :D (Really glad you enjoyed that route, and thank you for the comments on the animation/art, it was super fun to draw!)
I absolutely adore American folk horror, and the aesthetics of this game had me eating so good, like damn!! The art, the pacing, the story, the music-all 10/10s in my book. My first run in I got ending 2 (spoilers: I didn't have the heart to kill pere malfait, so i killed the rougaru instead lool), so I've been replaying it to see the alternatives. Also, I really appreciate the attention to detail in how travel order can impact some of the choices. Ty for making this awesome game!!
Thank you so much for the wonderful comment and thank you for playing!! Hope you have fun playing the other endings!!
Everyone involved really put their heart into every little detail so thank you much for saying so many kind things!
Incredible atmosphere for a game with such a restricted colour pallet, the characters, design and art were wonderful, and the story was incredible. I got one of the endings and I'd love to find them all. A must play!
Thank you so much for the lovely comments and for playing the game! :D Really happy you enjoyed it and I hope you find all the endings!! If you need any hints for them do let me know!
i don't think i have words to describe how much i loved this game, the atmosphere, the characters, everything! really well done literally everything about the game is amazing.
Oh wow, thank you so much for saying so!! I'm really glad you enjoyed it :D
Aw we all appreciate the kind words! Glad you were able to enjoy the game and thanks for coming by to comment!
Wow!!!! What an incredibly beautiful game, in both story and artwork. The sprites and color palettes have a delicate, daguerreotype feel to them that make the horror elements feel that much more ethereal and haunting, and the music direction pairs with them beautifully - while the UI and textbox is gorgeous, especially in moments where they interact with character sprites, I almost (though not quite) wish they were smaller so we could see more of that all (I appreciate the backgrounds download for that reason!). The progressing through branches (and particularly how they merge) is very cleverly written, and lends the story a very deliberate quality that makes it land like a fable, where everything is destined to play out. Not to mention the wonderfully poetic writing, and the clear thorough research/knowledge of cajun folklore - I was delighted to see père malfait make an appearance.
Wonderful job - huge congrats to the whole team!!
Thank you so much for playing and for the lovely feedback!! Really glad you enjoyed it! :D We are making some updates soon to add the option to minimise the boxes and such which hopefully will help with that!
Really happy to hear you found a lot to love in our game! And glad to know that you were delighted with père malfait making an appearance! We had a lot of fun sharing and swapping stories and info about the various aspects of cajun folklore.
Cool to have some body horror in a game with this art stye, it leaves some of it to the imagination at the end there. Good bunch of lore and really pretty art!
Appreciate the kind words and based on YOUR games it's a high compliment:) Thanks for coming by to play and leave a comment!
(and also please keep making cool stuff)
Really interesting game! The atmosphere was very immersive and I really appreciated the art style. Also, you could really feel that the ending you get is the result of the main character's states of mind which, in turn, get influenced by your choices.
Thanks so much for playing! I'm really glad you found it immersive :D
This is absolutely stunning! I felt the weight of every choice, and it felt so heavy (in a good way)!
Ayyy Thank you for playing!! Thanks for the feedback,, Hope you enjoyed :DD