Pitch Black Serenade

Pitch Black Serenade demo is available and free to download!

January 1st, 2009. A truck crashes in the middle of Shibuya, Tokyo. Kairi Nakajo wakes up in a hospital with total amnesia. Soon after, his parents break to him the news that they have decided to move to the tranquil city of Kujikawa. Kairi is forced to go with them, basically cutting off every direct link to his past.

Three years have passed, but therapy has failed and Kairi has not managed to get any of his memories back. In the meantime, he has grown suspicious of his parents, who appear to have been trying to replace his missing memories with new ones. The new memories seem to have been carefully chosen in order to mold a new Kairi, who would more closely resemble their ideal son.

Tokyo has changed as well: thick clouds are covering its sky and a dreadful case of serial abductions threatens its residents. And it appears that it all started on the day of Kairi's fateful accident...

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Features.

♦ Genre: Romance / Paranormal / Coming-of-age / Mainly aimed at girls.
♦ Shape Kairi's personality. Live by your parents' rules or fight back.
♦ Three love interests. Each leads to a different solution to the mystery.*
♦ Solve mini games to unlock pieces of Kairi's lost memories.
♦ Explore maps and collect clues.
♦ Travel between Tokyo and Kujikawa during free time.*
♦ Get collectible cards upon accomplishing achievements.*
♦ Befriend 7+ male characters because it's a game for girls, right?*
♦ That one sexy secondary character you can't date? Yes, there are three.*
♦ Multiple endings. And not holding back with the consequences.*
♦ Demons.
♦ 30+ hours of playtime estimated.*
♦ Rating: 12+, for suggestive themes and gore.

*Not included in the demo.

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Cast (Kujikawa Arc). Check Hi-res pictures.

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Links

Official Website
Official Twitter
Discord 
Patreon
Youtube Channel

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Staff

97Circle is a koujin (one-man) circle producing entertainment through various media. Story, art, GUI and coding of Pitch Black Serenade have been made by Kuna.

Proofreaders: Gospel, NovelistEzhno.
Mini game programmer: Anton Strickland
Beta-testers: Livestraes, Gospel, Natsu, Khanachi, NovelistEzhno.
Additional Background Art "Light Pole": Jeron Samez
Made with Ren'py.

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Demo features.

♦ Chapter 1 full.
♦ 3 hours of gameplay (35.000 words).
♦ 2 secret game overs. Be careful not to die!
♦ A mini game. Get one of Kairi's lost memories!
♦ 5 CGs. 
♦ Maps to explore (point and click).
♦ Free time: decide how to spend your days.
♦ Original sprite art for 11 characters.
♦ One entire location of the story: Kujikawa.

Release date: Oct 20, 2018
Platform: PC, Mac, Linux
Price: Free
Rating: 12+, for suggestive themes and gore.

You can report bugs or crashes here: [email protected] or on Discord. 

If you enjoy the content and want to support the development of the full game, please consider pledging on Patreon.

Please note that the full game, as well as other shorter releases, will be commercial.