https://cryptlark.itch.io/canary
About the demo
- Genre: slow-burn gothic romance visual novel
- Story type: kinetic (no choices)
- Length: about 1 hour (~12k words)
- Language: English, with a sprinkle of French
- Rating: 18+ (see below for content warnings)
Features
- Sharp tongues and gallows humour.
- A Belle Époque–inspired fantasy city of sun mages, cabarets and oubliettes.
- Mixed-media art hand-built from vintage photographs and halftone grit.
- Novel-style prose, one line per click, in a scrolling log with portraits instead of text boxes.
- A moody soundtrack and layered sound design.
- Free, always.

