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The Northern Passage
LAST UPDATE: 01.10.23 Chapter 2, Part 1
The Northern Passage is a (work in progress) horror fantasy CYOA, where you play as a hunter sent up north to investigate a series of missing people along the border of your home country and in the port cities of the Blackwater.
Working with your handler, Lea, you will travel north and discover that things are far worse than you ever could have imagined, and that there is something powerful lurking out in the deep, dark sea…
An interactive horror novel, features include:
- Horror. First and foremost this is a horror story. Content warnings are listed in the demo. This game is also 18+ for mature themes and sexual content.
- Heavily character driven. This story relies on character interactions!
- Impactful choices that alter your story.
- Character customization – name, appearance, gender, pronouns, weapon preference, your horse’s name.
- Choose your relationship with your handler, your family, and your mentor.
- Romance any of the four main cast: the alchemist, the bard, the healer, or the captain
This is a demo, and this game is a work in progress. Currently, the prologue, chapter one, and part of chapter two is available to play here, but it will be updated as more content becomes available. You can send feedback to the dev blog, as well as report coding errors and bugs to tnpbugreports@yahoo.com.
Thanks for reading.
Credits:
Game cover art and pixels by Forystr, character portraits & lineup by Pyreios
SugarCube Template by Nyehilism
Notification macro by Chapel
Live Update macro by CyCy
Made in Twine's Sugarcube 2.35.0
A special thank you to my beta testers: Tyler, Freya, Aileani, Isidore, Suldrun, Dominik, and Dheb!
THE CAST
THE ALCHEMIST
Your handler, Lea Chen (gender selectable). Lea is the legacy child of a famous hunter family, and despite being your handler for almost five years now, the two of you don’t have much of a relationship.
THE BARD
Clementine, a rather curious bard you met on the road (they/them). You have some suspicions about this Clementine character, who seems to be a long way from home.
THE CAPTAIN
Captain Merry Harlowe (she/her). A refugee from your home country of Gael, she’s been stuck in Blackwater since the plague. Aggressive and brash, the captain is still a bit of a mystery to you.
THE HEALER
Noel Lykaon, another hunter, like you (xe/xem and he/him). Xir soft, lilting accent lets you know immediately that he's from the south, though he seems at home in Blackwater, having been in the north for some time.
Status | In development |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Rating | Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars (377 total ratings) |
Author | kit |
Genre | Interactive Fiction |
Made with | Twine |
Tags | Adult, Fantasy, Horror, LGBT, Meaningful Choices, Romance, Text based, Twine |
Average session | A few hours |
Links | Blog |
Development log
- A little check-in87 days ago
- Various bugfixes 1.24.23Jan 24, 2023
- Chapter 2, Part 1 now available!Jan 10, 2023
- Housekeeping updateJul 05, 2022
- Some more bugfixesMar 03, 2022
- Post-release bugfixesMar 02, 2022
- Chapter One now available!Mar 01, 2022