Gods of the Twilight
Volutian Design · 2023 · Choose Your Own Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Visual Novel, Female Protagonist, Cyberpunk
PC
Positive100% · 16
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About Gods of the Twilight
Gods of the Twilight is an episodic cyberpunk visual novel where old magic returns to a world of tech. Control two protagonists in parallel as they start to realize they're more than human. Decide who to trust when supernatural and human groups each have their own agendas, and ancient truths about you and your companions start to resurface.
This is a world where magic has mostly been forgotten, but with Ragnarök approaching, strange events are taking shape... especially in the lives of Althea and Farkas, a young woman and man living on the city-ship of New Reykjavík. You control both of them as they face mysterious assassins, their own emerging abilities, and hints of the roles they may choose to play in world-shaking events to come. They can become friends, rivals, or even lovers with a variety of companions—including each other—as they navigate a web of potential allies and enemies... including gods, monsters, governments, corporations, and criminals.
Althea Mishra - A scholarly but sheltered daughter of two high-achieving parents, she’s an intellectual who nonetheless loves dirty jokes.
Farkas Hekluson - Under the hardened exterior of a guy who survived rough streets growing up, he’s a scarred introvert deeply protective of those he cares about.
Sara Grímsdóttir - Sensitivity and strength combined, this mostly soft-spoken girl is just as full of bravery as she is compassion for anyone she encounters.
Hektor Koskinen - A shameless dork, he’s involuntarily wealthy thanks to his CEO father, but nonetheless straightforward and honest to a fault.
Lieutenant Cebisa Komani - A duty-driven Icelandic special forces police officer, she’s now an operative for the highly classified international operation dealing with recent supernatural events. Mikael Pulkkinen - Hektor’s valet, who has become more like an older brother to him through the years they’ve spent together. Easily sees through bullshit and has zero tolerance for it.
Jóhannes Stefánsson - As a personal assistant to Althea's parents, he likes to keep things strictly professional and not reveal much about himself. However, the recent strange occurrences will test the limits of this mask.
And more as the story unfolds!
This is a world where magic has mostly been forgotten, but with Ragnarök approaching, strange events are taking shape... especially in the lives of Althea and Farkas, a young woman and man living on the city-ship of New Reykjavík. You control both of them as they face mysterious assassins, their own emerging abilities, and hints of the roles they may choose to play in world-shaking events to come. They can become friends, rivals, or even lovers with a variety of companions—including each other—as they navigate a web of potential allies and enemies... including gods, monsters, governments, corporations, and criminals.
- Fully voiced dialog!
- Choose how the world ends (hundreds of variables shape your story)!
- Choose which characters will become your allies, enemies, friends, rivals, or lovers.
- An episodic story released over time, where choices carry over between chapters and seasons.
- Over 100k words in the demo and first installment of episodic chapters.
Althea Mishra - A scholarly but sheltered daughter of two high-achieving parents, she’s an intellectual who nonetheless loves dirty jokes.
Farkas Hekluson - Under the hardened exterior of a guy who survived rough streets growing up, he’s a scarred introvert deeply protective of those he cares about.
Sara Grímsdóttir - Sensitivity and strength combined, this mostly soft-spoken girl is just as full of bravery as she is compassion for anyone she encounters.
Hektor Koskinen - A shameless dork, he’s involuntarily wealthy thanks to his CEO father, but nonetheless straightforward and honest to a fault.
Lieutenant Cebisa Komani - A duty-driven Icelandic special forces police officer, she’s now an operative for the highly classified international operation dealing with recent supernatural events. Mikael Pulkkinen - Hektor’s valet, who has become more like an older brother to him through the years they’ve spent together. Easily sees through bullshit and has zero tolerance for it.
Jóhannes Stefánsson - As a personal assistant to Althea's parents, he likes to keep things strictly professional and not reveal much about himself. However, the recent strange occurrences will test the limits of this mask.
And more as the story unfolds!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[i]Gods of the Twilight[/i], even in its Early Access stage, manages to deliver a thrilling narrative in which the supernatural, modern technology and the Norse mythology synergize in some unexpected and exciting ways. At the moment of writing this review, two lengthy seasons of this saga are planned to be released on Steam. The first one will contain twenty chapters and is expected to be fully available in 2025. Out of these twenty chapters, just the first five are currently playable, totaling around 100.000 words or ~10 hours of playtime. In an apocalyptic world in which the Arctic melted, causing the water to cover pretty much the entire planet, humanity resorted to living on synthetic islands and is highly dependent on technological advancements. On one of these islands, New Reykjavík, a strange chain of events appears to prophesize the impending Ragnarök (also known as “The Twilight of the Gods”) - a catastrophic battle where several Norse mythological figures are deemed to perish, bringing the destruction of the world with it. Still unaware that they are gifted with superpowers or that they appear to be reincarnations of Norse gods, two teenagers, Farkas and Althea, find the…18 found this helpful
Best Virtual novel I ever played. Totally love it. I want more! My theories about who is who after chapter 5. [spoiler]Farkas - Fenrir or Thor or really Loki Hektor - Balder 100% sure Sara - Jormungandr or she could be Fenrir[/spoiler]3 found this helpful
I've just finished playing the available chapters and... I need more. The story is so interesting that I started playing and just... didn't stop. When I reached the end it was 2 am and I was tired and frustrated because the story ends (for now) on such an amazing cliffhanger. I need to know the rest. The main characters are really interesting, I have a soft spot for Farkas and his wish to protect and defend those he cares about, and Thea is such a refreshing character, I played her a compassionate and I loved seeing how that affected the story once she met Farkas. I totally fell in love with Hektor and I'm pursuing him with Farkas, so my only "complaint" is that I wish we could have seen a more intimate or even just a moment with just the two of them. For that side of the story, Thea seemed to have more occasions to get close to the other characters, so I hope Farkas will get his chance in the following chapters. I can't wait to see how the story develops, I feel like so many characters are hidding their true intentions from us and I don't know who to trust 100% even if some characters are already closer to "me" than others. All in all this seems like an amazing game and I don't…3 found this helpful
The presentation is really good so far. Characters and environments are good. The story isn't the most original, but I'm a bit of a die-hard for this setup for character dynamics, and the voice acting helps bring more depth. A few dedicated moments for building romance between characters, which they do give you the option to flirt with almost every side character between each playable protagonist, either to create a love triangle or even try to form a poly romance in one instance, which they expect you to try to do since they have achievements for it though it's still to be determined how it's going to go as even with that freedom their probably going to make you choose between a few select characters at some point as it's not particularly clear if the romances can just be flings or serious. Nothing explicit in terms of the romance yet [spoiler] Hector and Althea playing around and cuddling in bed was surprisingly hot and wholesome though [/spoiler]. Overall, I am impressed so far and can't wait for the next few chapters to be finished.1 found this helpful
Quick review: An extremely intriguing, competently made, and entertaining visual novel. I honestly cannot wait to see how it shapes up. Might not have the budget of some of the greats, but I honestly enjoyed what I have seen so far even more than some of the legendary visual novels like Fate: Stay Night! In this review I rate the aspects that are what I personally think about with a visual novel. Graphics: I think the character designs are all solid, and meet a perfectly good standard within the visual novel spectrum with a good mixture of decent character sprites and unique art pieces. I will say that the art is not 'the' most amazing visual novel art I have ever seen, because that would be hyperbolic, and because there are some pretty uniquely beautiful outliers in that regard. Let me be clear though this visual novel does not fall behind what I consider the general good standard, no character is just awkward or ugly. I would give Gods of the Twilight a 7/8 out of 10 in that regard (Better than bog standard, but not in awe inspiring category, and it is particularly good for what I take to be an indie project.) Music: Really does its job, the opening menu music in particular …1 found this helpful
I love this story line. It's intriguing, exciting, yet relaxing to play so far. I'm looking forward to how it unfolds!1 found this helpful
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