Nameless: The Departed Cycle
Nameless: The Departed Cycle is a dark fantasy/horror visual novel with LGBTQ+ elements. Make choices to determine Israh's fate, and strive to survive -- perhaps even slay -- the monster stalking the Umbral…
Nameless: The Departed Cycle is an adventure developed by Fiendish Fiction, released 2 November 2022 on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Nameless: The Departed Cycle is
Nameless: The Departed Cycle is an adventure game developed by Fiendish Fiction and released in 2022. It is available on Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Something lurks in the Umbral Forest, its wicked tendrils snaking out to reshape the very woods themselves. Is this the beast Israh Almasi seeks to hunt and slay for the sake of his dying son? Or something even darker and more sinister than he ever could have imagined? Meanwhile, a mysterious man has made himself at home at Israh’s campsite. He calls himself Nameless… and he only comes at night. Follow the red star to the Umbral Forest and unravel the mysteries within.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama, fantasy, horror and romance. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
What it launched against
Nameless: The Departed Cycle launched on 2 November 2022, within three weeks of God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
Released around the same time: God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Scorn, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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