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Title: High Elo Girls
Tagline: Navigate competition from all sides to become starter for your new esports team!
Status: In Development (Fall 2022 - Wishlist Us!)
Medium: Visual Novel, Simulation
Genre: Coming-of-Age, Slice-of-Life, Romance
Availability: PC, Mac, and Linux on Steam, Itch.io
Website: Highelogirls.gg
High Elo Girls is an esports visual novel about embracing your dreams to become stronger.
Play as Rafaela, a Black queer first-gen college dropout turned substitute for Momentum Gaming (MMG), an ambitious team of five amateur players competing for a coveted spot in a closed esports league.
Become an MMG starter by navigating fraught relationships with your new team members, or take a backseat to their ambitions.
Taking place over 12 weeks, this tale of teamwork explores themes of new adulthood, team relationships, and the heights reached when we embrace the climb.
FEATURING:
5 MMG Playable Team Roles
5 Teammates to Befriend
In-game simulations featuring crucial narrative-changing choices
A newcomer-friendly tour of the MOBA esports scene
Title: Lore City: Alkahest
Logline: Brew your way out of a hostage situation before your alchemy lab becomes your tomb.
Status: Launched (May 2021) Official Guide
Medium: Visual Novel, Simulation
Genre: Adult Fantasy, Thriller
Availability: PC, Mac, and Linux on Itch.io
Website: Lorecityworkshop.com
Alkahest is an 18+ thriller visual novel about pushing your limits to gain freedom.
When Logan Apollo, business partner to unlicensed alchemist Mello Kurosol, returns all wrong from a job far outside Lore City limits, Mello must brew deadly potions for the malicious entity possessing Logan's body before time runs out.
Engage your friend in conversation to unwind the mystery of his capture, and brew your way out of a dire hostage situation before your alchemy lab becomes your tomb.
Taking place over a single night, this conversation between two categories of criminal explores themes of religion corruption, and justice through an outsider's lens.
FEATURING:
6 Unique Endings
10 Gorgeously-Illustrated CGs
6 Characters explored through clashing perspectives
A Meaningful Point-&-Click alchemy mini-game
Title: Lore City Workshop
Logline: Unravel a conspiracy at the heart of this adult dungeonpunk visual novel series.
Status: Part I (Alkahest) Released.
Parts II - IV In Development.
Medium: Visual Novel, Simulation
Genre: Adult Fantasy, Thriller
Availability: PC, Mac, and Linux on Itch.io
Website: Lorecityworkshop.com
Lore City Workshop is an 18+ thriller visual novel series about bargaining with the unknowable.
The legacies of three legendary pathfinders come to the Risen Continent several centuries past still fuel the civilizations that sprouted in their wake.
Follow an ensemble cast of magical outcasts, tired alchemists, corrupt state agents and powerful fugitives as they unwittingly unravel a conspiracy at the heart of an enlightened city, an oppressive regime, and the carnivorous forest threatening to engulf them all.
Taking place over four visual novels, this dungeonpunk series exposes the hunger for power inherent to all governance, enlightened or otherwise.
FEATURING:
First-person vignettes experienced through the eyes of Black and queer player characters
A meticulously crafted world threaded with magic and science
Four standalone visual novels made richer through chronological play
Traditional visual novel storytelling enhanced by simulation and RPG mechanics