Shards of the Past
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Synopsis - Shards of the Past
While returning from what was supposed to be a routine trading trip to a nearby town, a young man is pulled into an epic story of your making. Along the way you will meet new people and see incredible sights as you travel across the continent seeking to solve a great mystery. What you find will cast doubt in your beliefs and history as you know it, while allowing you to create a future of bright exploration or epic destruction. With a branching narrative and multiple possible outcomes, you shape the story with your actions and choices
Why should you play Shards of the Past?
"Shards of the Past" is a mature themed visual novel that puts story and choices first. If you enjoy a player choice driven narrative that prioritizes developing a solid story background and deep characters, then this is the game for you. Choices have an impact in this story and even the smallest one will have a big change on dialogue while many other choices will take you to new scenes and even new story paths. Choices can also lock you out of some scenes and paths and even impact which ending you will see. Most choices cannot be rolled back so saving often is advised. This game is designed for that that have a love of "Choose Your Own Adventure" style storytelling and gritty, mature drama and adventure.
Shard of the Past Development - Current Content 0.3.0
The released game currently contains:
- 3,630+ story renders, not including Journal, Gallery or Achievement images.
- 84,000+ words of story dialogue.
- Multiple main story paths with numerous dialogue choices. Many choices come into play now as well as having an impact in further updates.
- Achievement System.
- Image gallery with images unlocked via gameplay and earned achievements.
- Journal system that describe your character's journey so far and gives possible insight into the motives and actions of those you have interacted with.
- Complete soundtrack for all scenes and events.
Continued Support
If you enjoy playing Shards of the Past and would like to help further the development of this game you can do so through Patreon or SubscribeStar. In exchange for your support you will various rewards, including exclusive weekly development updates, subscriber only Discord roles, preview images and custom renders, voting rights in polls for upcoming content as well as access to early beta builds.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $9.99 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Release - Shards of the Past 0.3.025 days ago
- Chapter 3 Development Update: Closing In68 days ago
- Chapter 3 Development Update: On the Road AgainNov 27, 2023
- Chapter 3 Development - Kicking Things OffSep 09, 2023
- Release - Shards of the Past 0.2.0Aug 22, 2023
- Chapter 2 Nearing CompletionAug 10, 2023
- Chapter 2 Currently in DevelopmentJul 03, 2023
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Will you only be able to choose one LI at a time?
It is not a harem game, so you will want to focus on the solo LI paths. There is the chance that you could switch and pursue someone else, but things might get messy and feelings will get hurt.
pregnancy planned? multiple solo Li routes/endings?
Each LI will have their own storylines and endings. Pregnancy is planned in a couple of ways. There will be a chance for LI to get pregnant, but given the amount of time that will elapse during your journey they would only be in the early stages of pregnancy during the main game. I am adding random encounters to the game and some of these will have a one night stand type content. I have one planned for a woman who is very far along in her pregnancy.
i assume there will be endings for each Li you do where you see them further along in their pregnancy? or have given birth? jw where you are potentially taking it
Yes. If a LI gets pregnant I want to include that in their ending. It might differ by each LI as to how that plays out in their story line, but I want their ending to have a conclusion to that pregnancy or a birth.
It's a good game with a wide variety of choices. I'm not sure if it was intentional, but the game world slightly reminds me of the Witcher series, and that's not a bad thing.
Sometimes the real monsters are the people....
it was realy good and i hope it will come more about this game i love it
This was such a worth it playthrough. The story is engaging and the character models look promising. The multiple playthroughs for all choices system is such a winner in this one. I just hope the dev continues this. Definitely recommend. 10/10
Glad you enjoyed it!