The Life Between

A little prototype of a game where you wash up on a mysterious and moody island, explore, and talk to weird characters.

Submission for NaNoRenO 2025. We joined halfway through, so this was made in two weeks.

To call this a "visual novel" is stretching the definition a bit, but there is no other gameplay elements aside from talking.

Features:

Day/Night cycle.

Five characters to talk to.

Some landscapes and landmarks to look at.

UPDATE: The remaining characters have been added.

No objective or end.

Note that the game is very unoptimized. Sadly I have no idea what to do about that, but performance does get better after a few minutes of playing.

Credits:

Character Concepts (Perya, Kenavo): Melaeirian

Character Concepts (Cuerno), some textures, UI: PokiePunk

Music: Korschar

3D assets, gameplay, writing: Heathersward

Unity assets: Adventure Creator, FastSky, Nature Sound FX, Simple Water Shader URP, Tree Creator Toolkit 2, FREE Stylized PBR Textures Pack