Hey everyone!

Nice to meet you. We are a small team developing The Secret Ties of Strandcliff - a narrative game, where you as a barman are to write the story of your visitors while uncovering their secrets by manipulating information you get.

We are finally ready to release a first public demo of our game, aiming for this friday!

Honestly this is super exciting and a bit scary after tons of friends trying it out, we now need an honest opinion of people outside of our circle. The game has some unconventional mechanics that we aren't that easy to explain, but we hope they work and you would dig them.

To spark a little bit of interest in you there's one mechanic in the game worth a mention right away - Information cards.

Those a are bits of knowledge, that player is able to ask any character almost at any time. The idea of that was to give player that feeling of discovery that was in the old games where you had to input words, and if those were correct, a character would start talking to you on that theme. In the essence information cards serve the same role, so not only dialogue options are available to player, but also any information that they are able to chip from conversations with patrons of the bar.

This also leads to some interactions when you as a barman might spill out something that you know of to a certain character, for example some secret they weren't suppose to know.

There's more to Information cards in our game, but I'll just leave you with that for now.

Thank you for reading!

Oh, and one more thing, while we are planning to release demo next week, you can already try it out, the early version is available at our Discord Channel, it is in the pinned message.