Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents
Pennyvale Media · 2024 · Indie, Visual Novel, Vampires, Gothic, Adventure
PC
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About Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents
Harrowed World: What’s Past Is Portents is an episodic game like you’ve never seen before. Delivering a fresh new take on vampires in a rich narrative experience elegantly presented in an interactive gothic style visual novel.The Story Pack grants you access to all six stories. Isaac’s Story is free with the base game.Step into the dark and unforgiving world of vampires as Isaac Ambrose the human altar boy. While investigating a mysterious crypt you come across something that will change the course of your life forever. What awaits you behind the veil is a world far more intricate and unsettling than you’d ever dared conceive.
- Voice in the Darkness: Experience the thrilling voice acting as Isaac retells the experience from his childhood.
- Isaac's Story Duration: A single playthrough should take around 15 minutes but it is designed to be played multiple times.
- Vampiric Lore: Uncover the canon ending and multiple alternative game over endings as you unravel captivating layers of lore.
- Prelude to Portents: Be introduced to Isaac Ambrose and a insidious faction of undead from ‘Harrowed World: Portents In Red’, an upcoming modern gothic vampire RPG.
- Bonus Systems: Explore the Internal Achievements and Lexicon Systems.
- Supported: Controller Support (partially tested) and Mac and Linux Support (untested).
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DLC & expansions
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Players are divided on What's Past is Portents. Supporters praise the voice acting, art style, and storytelling potential, with several noting clear improvements in the DLC compared to the base game and expressing enthusiasm for future content. Critics argue the game feels derivative of existing vampire fiction without establishing its own identity, complaint about overwrought prose, and question the decision to pursue DLC and sequels before fully polishing the foundation.
What's Past is Portents felt like your typical vampire fan fiction, just with a bit of rebranding here and there. It didn't feel like it was building a unique word, but rather reshuffling regularly used concepts with minor changes. If the goal is to create something original, it definitely needs further work to distance itself from existing media. The overall experience currently feels more like a work in progress, not a fully realised release. Because of this, I find it all the more baffling that there's already DLC and two other games in the works over building and polishing the foundation they have here. The writing is okay, I guess. Not terrible, but definitely not great either. A lot of the time it felt like it was throwing unnecessary wording in there for the sake of it, to bulk it out instead of say anything substantial, this made already unengaging dialogue feel even longer. The overall structure of the story also made it quite difficult to become invested in. Dialogue choices have no real impact or weight to them and even if they did, you can hit back on any section of dialogue anyway, further removing any connection or weight from them. It's a short game but despite th…2 found this helpful
This game is amazing has a great storyline and the dev is a sweetheart2 found this helpful
Interesting story. Looking forward to more in the future.2 found this helpful
Enjoyable to read and listen to. The stories included in the DLC really show how much and how quickly the creator is learning as he goes when compared to Issac's story in the free base game. The plots are more developed as are the choice elements, the voice acting is fantastic and the artwork really matches the atmosphere of each story. The obvious improvements really show his passion for Harrowed World as a whole; I look forward to future releases from this team. Quite the Must-Have game for the Spooky Season.1 found this helpful
I looked into the game for the first time today and I quite enjoyed it! The voice acting is smooth and fits the characters well, while the art style is both nostalgic and nice to look at, doesn't hurt that it wouldn't feel out of place in a game that I would have seen/played while growing up! I am looking forward to what the future stories will bring.1 found this helpful
Wonderful stories! Can't wait for upcoming content.1 found this helpful
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