Omen Exitio: Plague

A neat blend of Lovecraftian horror and historical medical mystery, but the text-heavy pacing drags hard in the middle acts. Making choices feels impactful at first, until you realize how often minor missteps lock you into punishing loops. It’s an okay time-killer for visual novel fans, though it desperately needed a tighter editor.

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Frustrating story, shallow characters and I almost forgot it was supposed to be Lovecraftian.

A short 'choose your own adventure' style interactive fiction title, the story follows a physician that enlists in the British army in an attempt to escape the pain of his wife's death to disease. Once deployed to Zanzibar, you are pulled into an investigating of a terrifying and deadly spreading disease. As you dive deeper in your investigation you learn the disease is tied to a secret occult cult. The story has heavy lovecraftian inspirations. As you play through the game you can upgrade various stats which are used to complete certain actions in the game. The stat checks can open up minor story changes and unlock achievements. Failing these stat checks generally has minor impact on the story, it's mentioned sometimes that your character was 'injured' but I couldn't tell what if anything this actually did. The story is also very linear with some railroading with one main story path with small changes to what happens to characters and events in that path. So this leads to replays for different endings feeling a bit too similar. There is a skip seen text option through which helps to skip through the story quickly and see the new text you haven't seen before. The UI is very s…

This is a fun choose-your-own-adventure. Great story and the music is peak.

Great game!