DREAM EATER
1349. Plague has arrived in your small, secluded village in the mountains.
Many pray to God for mercy, including the people of your village. But generations of isolation have sustained older traditions. An older god. The Pale Lady, once known as the White Wolf, protects your village from accusations of heresy, and has shielded your people from violence and war for as long as you can remember.
All she asks for in return is a dreamer - once every ten years.
When she sends her knights into your village after a long, uncertain silence - in which many of your fellow villagers have died or fled - some are hopeful that, at last, your punishment has ended.
Chosen by the Pale Lady, you are whisked away, up the mountain and into her grand keep. But even inside the high walls of Wolfenstone, the plague lurks, along with an infectious hunger like you've never felt before...
DREAM EATER is a (mostly) linear dark romance interactive fiction game about vampires and the black death. You play as a young, isolated, and naive village girl in southeastern Europe, chosen to be the Pale Lady's newest dreamer. But your new life in Wolfenstone is not exactly what you expected it to be, and even within the Pale Lady's keep, you cannot escape the bloody reach of plague. As you struggle to adapt-- and survive-- you must also decide who to trust with your heart... and hunger. The knight, Kaja Yoss; your fellow bloodmaid, Una; or perhaps the Pale Lady herself?
Currently, only Part I is available to play, published for submission to the Queer Vampire Jam 2026. The game will ultimately have five parts upon completion.
Note: This story is a dark medieval fantasy, set in the late medieval period— some aspects are inspired by real history (like the Great Mortality), and these are represented as historically accurate as possible. But there are still some anachronisms present; and both the city of Tanzil and the village the player character originates from are entirely fictional. I've included various fictional words that are specific to the fictional culture and religion of this isolated village, and when first presented in the text, these words will be italicized.
Credits:
Character portraits and frames by Maggie @fat-rolls-frictions
Cover image made from work by Vitaliy Shevchenko & Sirius Harrison
Sidebar made from work by Vitaliy Shevchenko
SugarCube Template by Nyehilism
Live Update macro by CyCy
