ManorQuest [demo]

Will a weekend locked in an isolated mansion turn into a dating game or a murder mystery? Unfortunately, the choice is yours.

You are Dr. Calvin Altoff, a philosophy professor on an extended, unproductive sabbatical. Luckily, your assistant and only friend, Willow Reilly, has picked up the slack. She's ready to pull the trigger on a strange experiment for her long-awaited thesis, and she needs your help to execute it.

You host a retreat at Montador Manor, a historic house atop a desert mountain, where six strangers gather to hear your latest lecture. Willow watches from the attic, waiting for the experiment to begin when she locks you all inside.

It's not your idea of the perfect weekend, but you can't say no to Willow. All you have to do is read your lines and pretend you don't know why the front door won't open. And, if it's not too much trouble, lure one of the subjects into a romantic tryst or to an untimely demise.

A genre- and medium-bending narrative where your decisions affect which twisted turn this familiar setup will take.

In development with a completed script of 365k words, featuring 6 character routes and 18 endings to explore.

A single playthrough spans about 140k words. A guide to all ending paths will be posted along with the finished game, but it is highly advised to go into your first playthrough blind.

Contains mature language, references to violence and sexuality, and mentions of drug and alcohol use, but no X-rated or graphic content.

8/30/24: First 2 chapters uploaded for friends. Hi friends!

Controls

• Press F4 to toggle full screen view
• Press TAB to toggle text box visibility
  
• Press 1 or click the >> button to advance phone messages
• AUTO will auto-advance text boxes
• FFWD will fast-forward text boxes until you press ESC or reach a new scene
• LOG displays content of past 50 text boxes
• SAVE and LOAD freely, with 15 files
• Hold SHIFT to run on the rpg map, or press R to run by default

Credits

• Written and created by me
• Illustration in cover art by saad.inkgasmic
• Character pixel portraits by kiplik
• Music by Steven O'Brien steven-obrien.net/
• Plugins from VisuStella & KageDesu