Visual Novel: A Strange God Reigns (non-commercial)

Here’s to introducing my first visual novel, A Strange God Reigns. An otome (gxb) visual novel set in a 19^th century England, featuring as the main character Constance, a young woman ejected from her violently superstitious hometown at a young age to avoid being murdered for her red hair—believed to be the sign of a “witch”. She’s a little paranoid, grumpy, and easily exasperated, but she is quite tough and has a good heart, and when it come down to it, she'll try and do the right thing.

The game revolves around a giant disturbance in her life, when a notable aristocrat from her hometown is kidnapped and the kidnappers escape into the forest, right where she lives. Luckily her cabin is well-secreted in the thickets of the trees, but still, having violent criminals in the neighborhood isn’t the best situation. Then the local police come charging in and her chances of survival just keeps getting lower and lower.  

Joining her in her sordid adventures is a complete religious fanatic of a policeman and the hostage himself, the heir of an aristocratic family who generally teeters between sanity and self-destructiveness.


Gameplay is standard visual novel format, with choices that affect which ending you’ll get. There are four endings. Music and programming will be done by a ridiculously multi-talented friend, while art and writing will be done myself. The rough draft of the script is around sixty to seventy percent complete, and concept art of the three main characters are done. 

Given that this is more of a test run than anything, this will be a free visual novel. This blog will be devoted to my trial-and-error process, and I do hope that my mistakes (and triumphs) will be able to help anyone also starting out their own game with as little knowledge as me.