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Creating the #darkfantasy and #horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. 🩸Free early development demo: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst… 🫶 High velocity memes in our Community Discord: discord.gg/24cmNWp

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Tricket @tricketcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Phantom of The Opera visual novel is now live and playable for free! orribu.itch.io/phantom-of-the-opera-spooktober2026 It was a pleasure to write for such an amazing team :3 Loved making the phantom as creepy as possible. #phantomoftheopera #indiedev #spooktober #gamejam
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The Phantom of the Opera ⚜ Spooktober 2026 by orribu!, Aaron Heressence(Aroma), Etrikia
Can Christine escape his clutches—or will she be haunted forever?
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OTOJANG Games @otojang.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TIS HERE MAHAHAHA!! (`∇´) My #SpooktoberVNJam game: Millie & Finny has now RELEASED! ✨ 🧙‍♀️ Contains 🌿 - Potion Crafting Minigame - A CAT /ᐠ - ˕ -マ Ⳋ - Unhealthy levels of cuteness (You've been warned) ( 。 •`ᴖ´• 。) Play it now 👉 otojang.itch.io/millie-and-f... #vndev #visualnovel #indiedev
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 30/09/2026
yay yippee wahooo new #devlog! [ #indiegamedev #horror ] 🎨 beeeeg #art progress 🎮 #programming behind-the-scenes ✍️ #writing & #editing trenches 🔀 anaad updated flowchart spaghetti to show my overall script progress!! 🫶 Out 1 week early for patrons of any donation as HUGE thanks! I hope you enjoy!🔥
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SEPTEMBER DEVLOG - Explosive Art Progress, Server Party & Writing Trenches Recap!!! | Alaric
lock in gamers, game devs, and enjoyers of ludicrous art and writing progress, I've got a huge recap for September!!!!! also omg the editing
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 30/09/2026
New art preview 💅 Fullscreen CG 🔥high res🔥 I'm so fucking excited to start sharing assets from the game aaaaaaaaa 🔥 Thank you guys so damn much for the support. Means the whole world! This is an exclusive sneak-preview for patrons at any tier!!!!❤️‍🔥 Hope you enjoy!! www.patreon.com/justwritestu...
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Sneak Preview! Fullscreen CG - Father Elias Edmund | Alaric
Sneak Preview! Fullscreen CG - Father Elias Edmund by Alaric on Patreon. Join Alaric's community for exclusive content and updates.
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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Teisha just wants to fix the world 😁💪🐛🫜🔥🖖💖🚀 @teisha42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HAPPY FRIDAY! Once again, you made it! 🎉🎉🎉 Happy #Fall! 🍂 I'm testing fun themed ideas for my favorite holiday, #Halloween. 🦇🎃🖤 Here: Ghost potato #bread. 👻 Aren't cookie cutters versatile? Details below. Got #baking plans? From #Colorado, to wherever you are, wish you all the best! #bake
Ghost design on potato breadGhost design on potato breadGhost design on potato bread
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 25/09/2026
This is so cute! 👻🤍 I baked some gf pumpkin muffins yesterday that came out amaaaazingly
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VeryFatCat and Friends @veryfatcatz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Meet the Love Interests of our game! 😏💖🥵 🐟 Laney, half merman half minotaur grumpy Tsundere 🐉 Evaristus, clumsy gentleman dragon accountant 🐏 Ziguang, hot single mafia boss near you Wishlist to meet them soon~💋 store.steampowered.com/app/4697550/... #otome #datingsim #romance #amare #indiedev
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shino @ Thine Curse of Loss @4nokivn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📧 Newsletter: Thine Curse of Loss Progress Report A quick introduction to some details on our upcoming historical yuri visual novel, main cast introductions (ft. character design yap!), and release plans (^^ Read at: 4nokivn.beehiiv.com/p/thine-curs... #vndev
Kazuki character design sheet. Woman with eyepatch + red eye + ponytail
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 22/09/2026
[ #art #digitalart #vndev #indiegamedev #horror ] for the sake of keeping things painterly, wound up going for 1 background with 8 variants for this location, instead of layering its many pieces in-engine! though I do still want to release a music track labeled "oversampled modular corpse cave" 😂
Digital art in monochrome at 54% resolution, showing a small section of a dynamic background from a choice-based dark fantasy and horror visual novel. An unfortunate victim of a spider-like demon is wrapped up in webs, with only one hand and his face exposed. A very overstuffed backpack is on the ground a short ways away from the body, also covered in webs. The artist's work station shows a handful of other layers worked on for the variants of this location, whose palette and features will greatly vary based on how the player interacts with the features in the environment.
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 21/09/2026
@therealwiwaxia.bsky.social for your attention and appreciation 🙏💕
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Alleesaur 🌺🦖 @alleesaur.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
[ #oc ] the ancient spirits
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matchstick 🧶 Wishlist Meander @matchstick345.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
And the demo for Meander is now live!! You can try my cozy crochet-doodling and scrapbooking game. Download demo at: store.steampowered.com/app/4714860/... #indie #gamedev #art #crochet 🧶
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 20/09/2026
1.7k word chapter packed with the hardest earned knowledge for the player near the end of a long and branching revenge story took 1 hour to draft 3 weeks to edit worth every goddamn second #editing #writing #vndev #indiegamedev #horror
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AVAKAVA TEAM @avakava.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Sharing our visual novel progress part 1/3 | Day 5 Exploring hairstyle and outfit variations before we lock the final look 👁️👄👁️ #gamedev #indiedev #VisualNovel #horror #characterdesign #conceptart #art
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/09/2026
Piracy & theft is timeless. Malicious actors do not respect creative work, so if they truly wants to steal your game or its assets, they will. No security methods are perfect, but all we can do is our best. I hope that you continue creating and do not let thieves stop you, for yourself & your game!
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Renee! DEVIL'S LIMINAL out NOW @studiointerlude.com · 15/09/2026
Happy 2 weeks since the release of my yuri horror visual novel, DEVIL'S LIMINAL! Still on sale for 6 more hours! Also, a humble request: If you've played it, please leave a review! Need 50 reviews to be marked "Very Positive" & for improved visibility on Steam. Huge thanks for all the support! 🥹
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DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona till college. Make choices to maintain a no...
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 17/09/2026
the rendering on this is so lovely ;w; they're so sweet
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StuckWithMyself @stuckwithmyself.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A Slightly Smaller Update (0.6.0) - Outside the Cabin stuckwithmyself.itch.io/outside-the-...
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A Slightly Smaller Update (0.6.0)
This update contains the content that I was planning to add in the previous one, but ultimately chose to delay. With this we sadly reach the last update for a good while, because the next one will be....
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 16/09/2026
This month's devlog for my dark fantasy and #horror VN is out! 🩸 🎨Holy fucking #art progress batman 🎮Programming and #accessibility update! ✍️A psycho amount of #writing progress 🔀Updated flowchart spaghetti 🍝🙏🙏 🔥 Read it here: just-write-studios.itch.io/catalyst-bli... [ #indiegamedev #vndev ]
A working logo for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel "Catalyst: Blind Faith." The subtitle says "Devlog."

Grayscale art on the top row shows three main characters. From left to right: A female elf with a sly expression, asymmetric hair, many piercings, and long ears side-eyeing the player; a disheveled and heavily scarred young man, clutching at his head while he stares directly at the viewer; and a bubbly woman in profile view with an unnaturally broad grin and very poofy hair.

The bottom row has five sketches of different male body types, all at the same height. These are illustrative of the protagonist, whose appearance can radically change based on the player's choices. From left to right: An emaciated figure in a fighting stance, fists before his face; a slender and broad-shouldered figure in a front-facing and stiff pose; a muscular figure, looking relaxed and confident as he glances over his shoulder; a husky male figure, partially drawn, as some of the right arm is incomplete; and a very heavyset male figure, standing in a similar distant and neutral pose as the slim figure.Custom UI for Catalyst: Blind Faith, styled like a handmade journal. The deckle-edge pages are flipped open to a tab for the God of Vengeance, which is splattered with old blood. Along with tabs for all the other deities in the fictional pantheon, and places to review characters met, demons faced, inventory items, maps, and notes, the player gets detailed and dynamic information on each category. Here they have hovered over the first page for Vengeance, and a sheaf of paper appears with the player's history with this deity and the player-controlled MC's current reflections on their relationship. Though the player is tracking how many lives they have taken with this deity, their reflections are slightly more opaque: "You find yourself drifting from the path of the vengeful and vindictive. Such a thing can be easily amended."Colored digital concept art for three characters in the dark fantasy and horror VN Catalyst: Blind Faith. An albino and heavily tattooed orc, splattered in blood, stands in an A pose. His only notable armor comes from leather pteruges and a pauldron fashioned from a demon fish's skull. Upon his back is a javelin made from an oversized fishbone, and beside him is a large axe whose blade is hewn from darkened volcanic stone. To the right is the slender, heavily scarred, trad goth protagonist, with curly hair, bright green eyes, and many gold fasteners on his structured clothing. A matching, dark, spiked collar is on his dog: a hulking English mastiff to the far left of the image. This is a game in development, so in the bottom right is a disclaimer stating these designs are subject to change.
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 12/09/2026
Barreled through 3 chapters with our lead editor today 🎉🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Every 💖single💖 day is editor appreciation day🎉 Keeping quality high🎉 Having a discerning eye for the story's needs🎉 Editors are the real heroes of any narrative work 💖💖💖💖 [ #writing #editing #vndev #indiegamedev ]
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Monday, September 07,1953
P1- NANCY AND SLUGGO ARE WALKING DOWNTOWN 
SLUGGO: I HAVE AN IDEA, NANCY 
P2- THEY WALK BEHIND A WOODEN FENCE 
SLUGGO: LET’S STAND BEHIND THIS FENCE 
NANCY: WHY?
P3- SLUGGO: THIS IS LABOR DAY ---
LET'S GIVE THE BOSS AN EASY STRIP TO DRAW
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 07/09/2026
Thank you!!! 💖💖💖🥳🎉
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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Akira linetests. Always a treat.
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 06/09/2026
explosively laughed
Easter egg asset in a dark fantasy and horror game during the indie developer's birthday. A sinister monster, obscured by shadow, covered in red eyes and suspended in bloody webs, is sporting a red and white striped party hat.
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 06/09/2026
Today is my birthday! 🥳🎉🎉 To all those who asked, the best gift I can get today is supporting my indie dev! Feel free support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi! ☕🖤 Creating games that other people love makes me happier than anything. 💖🧡💛💚💙💜 www.patreon.com/c/justwrites... ko-fi.com/justwritestu...
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Get more from Alaric on Patreon. Become a member for just $1/month. Hi there and welcome! I'm Alaric, writer/artist/programmer/director for Catalyst:…
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 05/09/2026
Also holy new followers batman!! Thank you all very much for sharing your support of our indie VN's development!!!🔥 I work hard to not spoil tons of content while sharing progress, but love doing script readings with our community Discord while I self-edit. Feel free to join in! discord.gg/24cmNWp
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Official community server for the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith. | 184 members
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 05/09/2026
#editing miiiines today! a little whimsy with a diegetic song in this chapter I'm working on! 💖💖💖 I know it is massively self indulgent as a (dark) fantasy author but it is also one of my favorite things as an old-school fantasy enjoyer😤 #writing #vndev #indiegamedev
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 04/09/2026
DONE 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 RAAAAAAAAA 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 03/09/2026
crushing these final animations for the prologue today, no brakes no mercy #indiegamedev #vndev #art #digitalart #horror
Screenshot of a Clip Studio Paint work station. An indie game developer is chunking away at the silhouettes of three monstrous characters on the horizon of a bloody scene for a dark fantasy and horror visual novel. A dilapidated fishing village, with thatched-roof homes and a cold sunrise is in the background, but is almost totally obscured by the ever-growing chaos at the front of the scene. A crowd of panicked, faceless people flee in the foreground, with abstract smears of blood over them implying heavy gore.
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores, museums, and libraries would change the world.
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 01/09/2026
New #devlog! 🎨Holy fucking #art progress batman 🎮Programming and #accessibility update! ✍️A psycho amount of #writing progress 🔀Updated flowchart spaghetti 🫶 Out 1 week early for all patrons! 🫶 ($1 unlocks all posts😉) 🔥 Feast your #indiegamedev eyes here: www.patreon.com/justwritestu...
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August Devlog! | Alaric
[CRACKS KNUCKLES] It's been a very busy month for me. I hadn't realized just how much I'd gotten done until compiling all the progress toget
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Studio Élan @vnstudioelan.com · 21/08/2026
Join us September 1-9 on Steam for our Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival, a Steam festival dedicated to romance visual novels from across the world! 💖 Fall in love with your next favorite romance story with demos to try, discounted games, streams, and more~
Fall in Love Visual Novel Festival
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 28/08/2026
Three thousand followers?!!!! Thank you all so much!!!! 🎉🎉🎉 I drew a silly little something. Ray would love to know you're supporting our #darkfantasy and #horror visual novel!!!😊💙 💙Thanks so much for hyping up this #indiegame and its development. Hype to share more updates soon!!
Digital art of a very good boy, Ray, the English mastiff, thanking three thousand followers on Bluesky! He's wearing some sparkly, blue glasses shaped like the number 3000 just for the occasion.
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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 25/08/2026
I'm gonna try to put together a Horror bundle on Itchio for october, if you've got a horror e-book or vn, go ahead and message me a link. 📚📦
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cross couloir ☄️ Comet Angel on Steam @crosscouloir.cc · 27/08/2026
I'm hard at work on my Gothic horror RPG Crimson Grace, where you must get away with murder while being torn between strange spirits preying on your guilt and bloodlust wishlist it now to experience a tale of guilt, faith, and revenge with over 35 endings store.steampowered.com/app/4750370/...
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Crimson Grace is a supernatural Gothic horror RPG where your skills, dice rolls, and choices decide the terrible fate of the Blackwell household. Will you weave a web of lies and get away with murder,...
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Sol ✨ Play my Steam games @solarprotag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There are two weeks left until my boy's love game and its new DLC story arrives on Steam!! If you're interested in a #visualnovel with • 24k+ words of romantic fluff • baked goods • boys kissin' then wishlist today! store.steampowered.com/app/4482690/...
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 24/08/2026
#MythAugust Distinct from prayer, ritual, songs, sacrifices, or any other means of worship is literal "invocation" of the Gods. Divine intervention is made possible by pious humans channeling the abilities of a deity through their body—at a cost. This is rarely attempted by most. Our MC, however🙏
Script excerpt from the dark fantasy and horror visual novel Catalyst: Blind Faith, from Chapter 28: Once Sacred. All dialogue is in a stark, crimson red.

There is no fear in your heart as you take several steps away from the balcony, readying yourself to jump. You place your trust in the Gods, grasp your holy symbol, and invoke with fire.
	
"Light is Your vessel, made ready in weakness. Willing is the Father—here, in the house of the Mother!"

Heat courses through your skin as if it were set aflame.

"Deliberate now is my tension! Aid this humble form, intent on exerting Your will!"

Smoke curls along your scars, streaking behind you in plumes of red as you tear across the hardwood floor.

"Flesh of my flesh, grant me your strength!"

You leap clear over the balcony with so much speed and force that you sail completely over the fight below. Your heart stops as the wooden floor rushes to meet you, and you scream your God’s praises in the hopes that you don’t die on impact.

"GOD OF BRUTALITY, HEAR MY CRIES!”
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 22/08/2026
character art work, no one can stop me from sketching #silly shit while I figure out how many pteruges to put on my warchief antagonist's blood-caked design 💖🩸 Ray the dog is our secondary protagonist and an undefeated chess champion so my bet is on him 🧠💖
meme featuring sketches of two characters in a dark fantasy and horror visual novel. who would win: ray the well-mannered english mastiff, or orgoth the genocidal warchief
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coma @doomedsarcoma.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
no wonder you can't sleep
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Marko (Nerd and Jock Comics) @markoraassina.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Big Game Hunter
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
#MythAugust Suffice to say that the nuance of the setting's religion is the entire name of the game! I tried to keep spoilers to a minimum, but hope it was fun reading a little into its variety and teasers of its many conflicts! (10/10)
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
😦Your political opponents might (definitely) wholly disagree with your beliefs 🙋‍♀️Your allies may (definitely) have many questions 😊But you command enormous influence. There's no wrong choices about how you represent *your* faith! 🩸🔥For better or for worse, of course. (9/10)
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
#MythAugust 💛Father Anscham has a *slight* bias towards his own preferences, of course, given that Mercy is his partner and guiding light. 🙏It's in the spirit of King Magnus, the Merciful, for the player to decide how to best express their 🩸🔥passions🔥🩸 😊and uplift the things you love most! (8/10)
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
#MythAugust 👉You play as Father Richard Anscham, the 😊leader😊 of the 🙏Church🙏 of 💘Mercy💘 👿Our game takes place far underground, removed from the events on the surface. 🩸Why you are not leading the nation, and the nature of your "relationship" with Mercy is the name of the #horror game. (7/10)
Meme of a heavily scarred, brooding young priest, wearing a traditional holy symbol of the Goddess of Mercy (two open hands) and glaring at a mirror. He's also staring directly at the viewer as a result. In arrows around him is a derogatory play on the phrase "suffering builds character," with each word quoted separately to deconstruct how nonsensical the phrase is.
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
#MythAugust 🤫The obvious extremes, such as 'cults' who actively work to attack and dismantle the theocracy from within, have to operate under significant discretion. 🤪This is common knowledge to most people, but our player-controlled protagonist and POV character is not an average citizen! (6/10)
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
#MythAugust 🌾🏰The theocracy provides, so region-wide sects are very common. 💪Flesh is a popular patron, with practitioners of "achievement" or "progress" spanning most cities. 💪 👐Mercy, Goddess of Restraint, also has many devotees who do not speak about their 😏faith😏 (5/10)
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
#MythAugust 🙏Most means of worship have historical precedent, uplifting citizens who reclaim their independence through personal expression. 😏Most citizens don't do this 😏An individual may even abstain from all religious practice, as a means of "uplifting" Spirit, 😏Goddess of the Immaterial (4/10)
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Just Write Studios @just-write-studios.itch.io · 18/08/2026
#MythAugust 🙏Every citizen is granted the freedom to express their religion however they please! Less socially acceptable means are included: 🩸Blood-worshiping zealots 🍻Hedonistic revelers 💤Slothful 'adherents' of Dream 😉and many more practices, as varied as the dying populace themselves! (3/10)
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