The Great Mortality

40 000 words, 155 narrative nodes, over 80 paths, 34 different endings, one cat.

A FRENCH VERSION OF THE GAME WILL BE RELEASED SOON!

"Where there's humans, there's always food and warmth."

The Great Mortality is my very first choose-your-own-adventure game, which I have developed in Twine over the course of 6 months.

A convenient feature at the end of each path allows you to go back in time to a choice you had to make, so you can try out a different fate for your character without having to completely start over! Although you still have the choice to start over if you so wish...

Paths vary in length, requiring 4 to 20 choices to reach a conclusion!

Some examples of the adventures you can expect in this game: rule over an underground cat community in France, become a Messiah's mascot as he spreads his message across the desert, save humans from the plague by killing the rats responsible for spreading the disease, find your soulmate and have baby kittens together, live at the court of the English king, follow a time-travelling historian from the future as she tries to convince the world that cats should not be eradicated, get abducted by aliens and travel to a different planet, become best friends with a fennec fox/a snake/a barn-owl/a little girl/a rat (what?)... and much more!

This game can be played for free, but please consider donating if you liked it, so that I can continue to write more stories, my goal in the future being to publish quality games monthly or bimonthly! Any support is greatly appreciated :)

A $50 prize awaits the first player to discover all 34 endings and list them in the comments (please only provide the titles to avoid spoilers). The prize has already been claimed! Congrats to Mamboo Bamboo :)

Since English isn't my first language and I made this game on my own, don't hesitate to let me know if you find an error, an incoherence or even something that you find offensive, and I'll be sure to fix it right away! (please reference the title of the narrative node in question so that I may easily find it)

The cover illustration was made by Italian artist Francesco Orazzini, check out his website here: http://www.francesco-orazzini.com/

"A wise rat changes his mind sometimes, but a fool never. To change your mind is the best evidence you have one."