Nowhere's End (Demo)
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
Nowhere's end is a gay, nsfw, horror dating sim. 18+ only.
The First Well, a gateway to another world, changed everything when it appeared, crashing into and swallowing a whole town. Twelve years later, the third Well arrives, hollowing out an entire mountain region.
The population gets more desperate for information on the Wells with each passing year, still knowing nearly nothing about them.
Follow Jude, an impoverished director who receives a life changing job offer; to make a documentary inside of a Well.
- Get to know your teammates in the coming months before the excursion to the Well begins. The bonds you make will matter for what's to come.
- The Well is different in every route. Each one contains its own horrors. Can you keep everyone in the team alive inside?
- Uncover secrets in each route, to piece together the lore of a world transformed by disaster, recovering from full societal collapse.
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Credits-
Levicore - Programmer, support, UI
LupusSeiza - Programmer, animation, parallax FX
Centi - Developer, art, writing
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I'm so excited for this!! Every time the word "Well" was brought up, I just kept imagining the Olympic Exclusion Zone from Pacific Drive. I am hoping for some really wild descriptions and events in the distant future of updates, once we actually begin the expedition.
Honestly, I'm very excited for when the expedition begins too. I'm mainly a horror writer, and the premise of the Wells allows me to go crazy with unique horror scenarios that I can't wait to write and illustrate
Then I know I have lots to look forward to!
I'm not sure how Jude is going to feel that Sawyer joined the crew because he was worried, but the sentiment is so sweet. I love Sawyer so far, and I'm looking forward to seeing how their experiences in the well is going to go :3c
I played this story yesterday and must say, Sawyer is truly good.☺
I appreciate the shifts in character perspective. The character that appears in this prologue is an Arctic fox named Sawyer. I fell in love with him at first sight, and his smile made me happy. I was surprised！ He was so charismatic！My childhood friend's willingness to venture into dangerous places for me deeply moved me.🥲🥲
The first well, a portal to another world, altered everything upon its appearance. I have numerous questions that urgently need answers. From what you've said, I anticipate the upcoming plot will be deeply emotional, involving profound sadness. I initially hesitated to engage with this story, but your public illustrations piqued my interest.🫢
I hope the characters in the story don't suffer too much misfortune; I genuinely empathize with them.God! Why are you letting me discover this FVN? I wish I had never been born into this world.😭😭😭
Lastly, I wish you all the best.
Great work so far! 😁 I relate sooo deeply with Jude 💜 and I love the change in character perspectives. Very cool idea, but it must get pretty taxing to write like that
Ty, and it's a headache to keep track of 4 distinct character voices for sure lol. There's some fun stuff planned for it later on too
As a writer myself, I can really appreciate the effort it must take, but I can also imagine that it’ll provide xou with many opportunities. The first of which being able to choose whose perspective xou’ll see a sex scene in 😋
Excited to see what xou cook up! 😁
i love everything that this vn had to offer, can't wait to see more!
Sawyer might be my "canon" route
i was so scared to play this vn
but I'm glad i did it
i will not play it yet but i keep it followed
I love magical realism; plus this already has cute art, characters, and it's well coded (from my view). Hooked!
Ty! And the good coding is mostly due to Levi and Lupus, they're wizards
Loved it! Sawyer and Jude have sucha fun, sad dynamic that is very tasty so far, and I'm excited to read more about them and their heisty ghosthunter-type crew goin into the weirdo zone. The world building is neat, districts and such, the mystery wells, and ill have to see how merit/charter magicsystem works but that could be fun too. Only mild complaint id have is some prose at the start is a lil stiff/repetitive, some scenes could be shortened or use a b plot within em to add some spice, and maybe just a smiiiidge more subtlety w/ jude's inner dialogue in the first couple scenes might feel better.
Can't wait to read more tho! pls no hiatus i beg u!
Ty for the feedback! That's very valuable, and I agree with your points. Really glad to hear you like it so far too!
I think it is. VN It's interesting. The introduction is also very interesting. But the characters are okay for me. If they could bring out the character's uniqueness a bit more, it would be interesting.VN But the most interesting thing that I like is that there is a little bit of developmental psychology in it, but if in the future, there is a little bit more use of psychology, I think it would be great.
VN It is in the top 10 books that I will add to my bookshelf in the future. I will be waiting for your next works. Keep it up!
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Ty for the feedback! I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed it, and next update will be a bit less heavy on the setup, so the character's personalities should hopefully come across more
Great art, great characters, great start! Can't wait to read more. :)
Ty!
I've finished the demo and I love it! The characters, writing, art, and the Annihilation vibe is superb! I wish to support you on Patreon and I'm excited to see more!
I'll post on here somewhere when the Patreon is ready, thanks so much for wanting to support the project!
Oh yeah, this one feels special. Good characters, awesome art style, interesting premise. Can you make a post here when you set up a patreon? I don't use twitter.
Tysm! And for sure, whenever it's set up I can make a post on here
I'm a fan of the art and the writing, and the story so far makes me want to learn more about the world. The characters are all likable, and their interactions seem realistic. Looking forward to where you take it from here!
Tysm! I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it
Well I just finished, personally for my part I think that for a demo it's really incredible I like the artistic style especially in terms of the characters even if I think they have updates as I just mentioned see in the comments below, in addition to the music in the background it's really excellent I don't know if it was you who created it or if you found it on Youtube but it's a good idea , the script and the scenario are frankly excellent, the CG (Jude and Sawyer) and truly magnificent, one thing is certain I support this project finally I hope that this project will not be abandoned as I could see at the end from the credits, I see that you tried to start creating VN, in any case it's your choice, I will certainly support you
Tysm! For the music, it's all royalty free with attribution, so if you do want to know the songs, check the "about" section for the credits. And all of that's so nice to hear, I'm definitely staying with this project, I'm very passionate about seeing it through nowadays
he he he :3
so far the story and the artistic style were magnificent, after 3 years this project was abandoned and yet seeing it released in demo mode is just magnificent, I see that you have progressed after 3 years in any case I support you
Ty! I hope you'll play the next part too!
Of course
Just finished the demo, and I have to say I am in love with this VN already. The art style is amazing, the music adds to the scenes really well, so much that I would love to know where I could listen to them (hopefully on youtube), the characters and the story are incredible well written and I can't wait to see where this story take us! I really hope this VN doesn't die like most of the new VNs being released because I want to see so much more this story has to tell!
Tysm! I worked super hard on all of that, I appreciate it a ton. And no worries about the VN dying, I'm 100% attached to this and can't see a future where I won't finish it
I forgot to say it in the last message, but you can view the about section in the game for a list of the music that was used. I'm not 100% sure if everything there is on youtube, but I hope this helps
Good very very interesting really interesting to start with I didn't expect the demo to put me straight into the bath it puts me straight into the story the style and really unique in its kind plus I find that the style of the characters is really stylish and in addition the sound the audio in the background was magnificent one thing is certain I can't wait to see what happens next^^
Tysm! I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
I’ve enjoyed what is out so far! The story so far is interesting and was set up well! Can’t wait to see where this goes :) I also really like the character sprites! Very nice art style
Ty! It's much appreciated, and I plan on updating either Sawyer or Asher's sprites soon, so by the next time you see them, one of them will be more polished
Realllyy love what you have out so far if im being honest. The character interactions, specifically Jude and Sawyer, feel so real and the deep emotions are felt. I love the set up for the story so I'll definitely really look forward to seeing this vn develop
Tysm! I worked hard on that scene to get everything right, so I really appreciate it. The next update is going to be a few months from now, I'll probably post somewhere on here when the release date is planned, so
keep your eyes peeled for it