CONTENT WARNING:
Decay, death, morally gray characters, toxic relationships, light violence and body horror.

Story

The Devouring Forest is one of the most well-known spots to get rid of the suicidal or unwanted: the children nobody wants to take care of, elderly, sick, injured.

Kassja is ill, and being too weak to birth children or work her village throws her into the forest. Yet, as she is dying under the scorching sun that trespasses the greenery, the spirit patron hears her hateful prayer of death for those who used to be her folk. It resurrects her, green parts merging with her now healed body. 

The patron lets her live under one condition: she will be faithful to it and will help it destroy humanity in the region.

She accepts the deal.

Characters

Features

• Voice acting for Kassja, Aja, and Soren.

• 2 routes.

• 1 ending (for now)

• A human and a spirit you can… It’s up to you.

• Choices matter: despite this being the demo, the choices you can make still have their impact.

• 9k+ words.

• Original art.

• Original music

Team

Writing

The Sloth/A. Villarroel - Story lead, writer, director: Carrd & Itch.io

Norbert Daniels Jr. - Editor: Instagram & Bluesky

Visual Art

Breezy - Art lead, sprite artist, CGs artist: Itch.io, Tumblr & Bluesky

Evil Weevil - CGs colorist

Glaistig - BG artist: Itch.io

Ota  - GUI & logo designer: Carrd

Soundtrack

Theodore Powers: Twitch

Fairy Forest - Daria Shakhova

Programming

Breezy: Itch.io, Tumblr & Bluesky

VAs

Soren - Akura: X (Twitter)

Aja - Maria Corcobado: Website

Kassja - Adriona King: Website

QA Testing

Aurelia: Itch.io

Evil Weevil

Credits

SFX:

Fire sound - Copyright Free

8 year old child screams in apartment sound effect by Garuda1982 -- https://freesound.org/s/554903/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Walking On Dry Leaves.wav by Benboncan -- https://freesound.org/s/66631/ -- 

License: Attribution 4.0 Heartbeat 97 BPM by Cloud-10 -- https://freesound.org/s/688735/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

 SFXFallingLeaves.wav by WakuWakuWakuWaku -- https://freesound.org/s/422963/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

bird chirps2.wav by keweldog -- https://freesound.org/s/182529/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 walk 

grass.wav by taure -- https://freesound.org/s/575320/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Bird in cage, flapping wings.wav by ShanayGroen --https://freesound.org/s/365485/ -- License: Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 2024.03.01

Gracia crunching crackers by TeamEnFil -- https://freesound.org/s/725562/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

 CrunchyBite.wav by mmg67 -- https://freesound.org/s/567926/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Animal Lion Growl by Adobe swoosh.wav by PorkMuncher -- https://freesound.org/s/263595/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 

Thud4.wav by yummy9987 -- https://freesound.org/s/494930/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

thuds.wav by kgatto -- https://freesound.org/s/240281/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

 Heartbeat 97 BPM by Cloud-10 -- https://freesound.org/s/688735/ -- License: Creative Commons 0 16_Ratón_chillando.wav by JoseAgudelo --

  https://freesound.org/s/472399/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Music:

▶︎ Fairy Forest | Daria Shakhova

Images:

The Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli (1812) The Grotto of Neptune in Tivoli (1812) Cloudy Sky over Mountains (1865)

Install Instructions

The game file comes in a zip file, which you'll need to open with a program. Once you've extracted it, you'll see a file with the game icon. Clicking on that file will launch the game. In Windows, it might warn you that it's protecting your PC. You only have to click on "More info" on the Windows pop-up and you will have the option to run the game safely anyway.

Rating and Updates

If you played our game: thanks so much for trying it out! If you liked it please consider commenting as you rate the game.

If you'd like to see more of our progress towards publishing the full game you can follow us on Bluesky or Tumblr

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