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 Watcher, 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. Content warnings are listed below and 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 Watcher, your family, and your mentor.
- Romance any of the four main cast: the alchemist, the bard, the healer, or the captain.
CONTENT WARNING
Drowning & asphyxiation, violence & gore, death, terminal illness (player character), body horror, vomit & bodily fluids, memory loss, suicidal ideation & self-harm (player character), explicit sexual content (the option to fade to black is available), drug use (player character), animal death. This list is up to date as of 09/25/2024.
This is a demo, and this game is a work in progress. Currently, only chapter one is available to play, but it will be updated as more progress is made. You can send feedback (including bug reports or coding errors) to the dev blog or my email. Thanks for reading.
Credits:
Game cover art and pixels by Arthur @forystr, character portraits by Jude @pyreios, character lineup by GoGo @i-am-gogo-btw
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!