Features
- A heavily branching narrative where your choices matter. The relationships you forge and the decisions you make will dramatically alter your journey.
- Terrifying and funny. Charming characters and snappy dialogue flip to pulse-pounding horror at a moment's notice.
- A complex relationship system that changes how characters act around you. Characters don't just like or dislike you. Become friendly rivals, bitter adversaries, best friends, or mild acquaintances with everyone in town based on how you approach the story.
- Trait-based dialogue and role-playing. Scarlet Hollow's dialogue system is driven by role-playing elements that let you choose who you want to be. Are you quiet and observant? Hot and clueless? 21 different character builds change how you interact with the world and how your story unfolds.
- Original monster designs inspired by Appalachian myths and cryptids. You won't find any predictable vampires or zombies here.
- Five romance options. Whether you're into goths, dads, Youtubers, mysterious recluses, or lo-fi beats to study and water your plants to, we've got all your bases covered.
- Dozens of meticulously hand-drawn and traditionally inked backgrounds. Every background in the game is drawn by hand and inked on massive 19x24 inch paper.
- Hundreds of immersive sprites. Each major character has dozens of hand-drawn sprites that interact with backgrounds and capture a full range of lighting, emotion, environment, and outfit changes.
Hey folks!\n\nAnother month, another update, and wow do we have a lot of progress to share with you!\n\nFirst and foremost, in case you missed it, Episode 5 finally has a release date! Your return to the Holler is set for Friday, February 13th 2026, on Valentine\'s Day Eve. We announced this release date with a painstakingly animated trailer put together by our dear friends over at SmallBu Animation, and you can check it out here:
We\'ve also finally released our first alpha build to our testers. All in-all, it contains:
34 brand new backgrounds.
[/*]270 brand new sprites
[/*]About 70,000 words of total content.
[/*]6 new tracks from our maestro, Mr. Boone.
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Even though we call these builds \"alphas,\" this section of the chapter is bug-tested, and effectively locked and finalized. While it\'s hard to get a full sense of scope, I\'d say this means that roughly the first quarter of the episode, in terms of density, is essentially finalized.\n\nIf you\'re interested in trying the beginning of the episode early, you can access this build through the relevant tier on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/first-scarlet-5-142499990 \n\nJoining this tier also gets your name added to the alpha tester section of the credits when the next update rolls out!\n\nNo pressure to join, but the option is there.\n\nWe also wanted to use this update to talk about a small retroactive change we\'re making to pre-existing romance content. In the current live build, romance options essentially fully ignore your character\'s gender, but as time went on, we felt like writing their scenes this way stripped them of a little bit of character.\n\nYou can still date any of our romance options regardless of your character\'s gender, but there\'s now a little extra dialogue referencing their preferences and history to make things feel a bit more organic.\n\nThis applies to:\n\nOscar\nStella\nKaneeka\n\nAnd it will also apply to Sybil and Doctor Kelly in the future. But we\'ll leave the details for you to discover once the new update drops.
[img src=\"https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/40371863/2e57210967ecd3fff25ec0a0a6986e65bca703a3.png\"][/img]\nReese is too touch-starved to care, Wayne knows what he wants (you), and Avery is chill with anything.\n\nWe\'re also excited to share that our vocalist, Amelia Jones, will be contributing her immense talents to a handful of tracks for the chapter.
\nWork continues to go well, and we look forward to sharing more with you as we continue to progress.\n\nBest wishes,\nTony and Abby\n\n
Minimum Setup
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