In four days, everyone in Elsinore Castle will be dead. Unless Ophelia can make the right decisions and break a time loop through saving everyone.
Elsinore has you joining with Ophelia after a grim vision of the deaths of everyone in the castle. You have four days to correct the course of events and save everyone, or else the loop repeats. No one is just going to sit around during those four days and wait for you to get it right, though. Every person in the castle has their own motivations and stuff to do, and you’ll need to learn all of the secrets and habits if you’re to stop imminent disaster.
How can you alter these events? You can talk, lie, gossip, befriend, and forgive characters, in doing so changing how they conduct themselves. Depending on what you choose to do, these characters will act differently, setting off chain reactions throughout the story. Not all of these may be helpful, either, and you’ll just have to watch and see how your actions change the story as you seek the one correct path through it. You still retain everything you learned on old runs when you fail, though, so you can put that knowledge to new use on your next try.
Elsinore offers a world of complex characters all going about their lives as they see fit, demanding you get to know them all in order to save them. Diverting calamity will require a keen eye for detail, but with your help, Ophelia can surely pull it off. Or you’ll at least have fun seeing how your smallest decision can ruin everything.
Elsinore is available now on Itch.io and Steam.
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