Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents

Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents - Duncan's Story

You are Dr Duncan Richard Edwin-Oswald, a renowned physician, a gentleman, and a kind-hearted philanthropist. Cursed by guilt and consumed by grief, you consider taking drastic measures, when you are visited…

1 October 2025

What Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents - Duncan's Story is

Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents - Duncan's Story is an adventure game developed by Pennyvale Media and released in 2025. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are Dr Duncan Richard Edwin-Oswald, a renowned physician, a gentleman, and a kind-hearted philanthropist. Cursed by guilt and consumed by grief, you consider taking drastic measures, when you are visited by a mysterious woman who is not all that she seems.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Harrowed World: What's Past Is Portents - Duncan's Story launched on 1 October 2025, within three weeks of Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotei, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 and Silent Hill f.

Released around the same time: Battlefield 6, Ghost of Yotei, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, Silent Hill f.

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