The Fernweh Saga: Book One
Hosted Games · 2023 · Casual, Romance, RPG, Atmospheric, Thriller
PC
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About The Fernweh Saga: Book One
Some homecomings feel more like rude awakenings, but this one will become a waking nightmare. Find love while exposing the secrets of your eerie hometown!
The Fernweh Saga: Book One is a 600,000-word interactive, romantic thriller novel by Aelsa Trevelyan. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Return to a small town that you now feel a stranger in. It has been years since you were sent away following the tragic house fire that claimed your parents' lives, but the death of your grandfather has brought you back. While grim circumstances overshadow the visit you never planned on making, there are also opportunities to reminisce, reconnect, and reunite with old childhood friends, rivals, and neighbors. Familiar faces are all around, but will they aid or hinder you as your return trip spirals into a dark mystery and you start experiencing vivid nightmares? Begin to unravel what is going on in this seemingly idyllic, forested town.
A feeling of unease grows with each sleepless night spent within Fernweh's borders, but you can't leave yet…
It won’t let you.
The Fernweh Saga: Book One is a 600,000-word interactive, romantic thriller novel by Aelsa Trevelyan. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.
Return to a small town that you now feel a stranger in. It has been years since you were sent away following the tragic house fire that claimed your parents' lives, but the death of your grandfather has brought you back. While grim circumstances overshadow the visit you never planned on making, there are also opportunities to reminisce, reconnect, and reunite with old childhood friends, rivals, and neighbors. Familiar faces are all around, but will they aid or hinder you as your return trip spirals into a dark mystery and you start experiencing vivid nightmares? Begin to unravel what is going on in this seemingly idyllic, forested town.
A feeling of unease grows with each sleepless night spent within Fernweh's borders, but you can't leave yet…
It won’t let you.
- Play as male, female, or non-binary–with options to be gay, straight, bi, asexual, or poly.
- Develop the beginning of a unique and enduring romance with 5 potential love interests.
- Influence relationship dynamics with a cast of characters from your past and present.
- Experience how your personality, habits, decisions, and relationships impact your visit to Fernweh and how you confront what lurks within the town.
- Discover that things aren’t always what they seem by making connections and noticing links.
- Fight, resist, flee, struggle, or give in to whatever is invading your nightmares and the town; there is more to it than a boring ole monster…Much more.
- Fall in love, forge friendships, and uncover your past while spiraling into a mystery!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I'm gonna start off by saying I can be a little picky when it comes to IF games, if only because I'm picky when it comes to books in general. the prose needs to slap, the characters need to be unique but not fit trope-y archetypes, and the setting/world needs to feel lived in. that being said, Fernweh scratched all of those itches in a wonderful blend of small town horror meets found family. There's a lot of flexibility when it comes to the approach of romance and relationships -- you can choose the genders of the other characters as you play, and there is even a poly route. This was one of the few IF games that has stuck with me for awhile even after playing it, and I've been chasing the same high ever since lol. I recently signed up for Aelsa's Patreon and am eagerly reading my way through the alpha build of book two. Definitely a game I would recommend to fans of IF.1 found this helpful
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Loved this game. Such a fun and creepy story!
I feel like this IF is a hidden gem at this point because it's still not talked about enough how great it is! TFS gave me all the feelings I could hope for, from the eerie, immersive town vibes to fluffy romance (which are just the beginning in Book One and hopefully will develop further in Book Two).
Fun to read and go back from time to time, characters are very well written and dialogue is smooth and natural. Story is not confusing and makes one curious. Choices matter, and you will go back to try every option so i don't recommend playing when you need to get up early. Would prefer slightly more lenght but i say that about every novel/game novel i liked. Who doesn't want more cake if cake is really good amrite?
Wonderful slow-burn romance. The secret romance was by far my favorite. Great horror! Great for people with a wide variety of tastes even those who are... slightly problematic, like me ;) Of course you can also play a 100% wholesome route too.
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