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demo | website | twitter | facebook | kickstarter
From the deepest Miasma to the shimmering Veil, everything is in its place. The Peakborn rule, the Sunken toil, and the Unmoored trade. But Clear Skies Technology could rewrite the atmosphere, and with it the culture of planet Zé.
It all depends on how you use it.
The Sky Left Us is a sci-fi visual novel about climate change, classism, and how relationships shape our politics. Play as Spire Risan, an off-worlder scientist who becomes entangled in the drama of a mountain they came here to save. Fall in with the denizens of the three castes, and find that things are more complicated than they seem: from love, family, to the systems that shape us.
Our Kickstarter is live and we also have a short demo (10-15 min) that gives you a taste of the art, storytelling, and music.
Key Story Features
- Exploration of systemic forces through personal relationships
- The connection between environment, class, and power
- Interrogation of outsider savior stories
- Charming, flawed queer characters
- Politics as personal
- Nonbinary protagonist
- Ethics of technology
- No easy solutions
Key Gameplay Features
- Writing-focused game with few bells or whistles
- Quality of choices over quantity
- An original, pop/trip-hop OST | Listen Here!
- Multiple endings for each route
- Platonic, sexual, romantic, aromantic, and polyamorous relationships
- Ren'py accessibility features such as alt-text, self-voicing, and text size
Development Progress
We have a short demo with all art assets, animation, and music. If we fund our kickstarter, our estimated game release date is July 2022. We will be releasing the game all at once. The base game has around 63,000 words and 10+ endings, but we have stretch goals for two additional routes we're really hoping to put into the game!
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this is really cool! I love the natural world and the idea of this vn. and then the art is really gorgeous. can't wait to check out the chapters and good luck with your further development!
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hi everyone! I'm an indie game dev, and member of Ratworm Games. I've been a fan of vns for a long time, especially anything horror, weird, or horror and romance. it's been really cool to work on my first VN and hopefully it's the first of many we get to make!
nice to meet everyone.
hi!
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thank you!
yeah it's higher than most, but we're confident since we're already halfway. Lunaris Games recently did a successful KS that was in a similar range. definitely lots of work ahead of us though!