Your Prince Has Drowned

Once upon a time... there was a young mermaid princess who wanted to become human. Or did she?

You soon learn that things aren't, quite, what they seem in this short interactive meta-fictional CYOA game. Your Prince Has Drowned started life as a short story inspired by old school text adventures. Now it's been re-invented as a Twine game! Well, a Twine story where your choices can have serious consequences, really.

Features:

• Play for free in your desktop browser! Or support me by buying a downloadable version.
• Buying a copy also gives you access to the Hints Booklet.
• No save points and virtually no permadeath.
• A somewhat snarky interface. Be kind to it.
• Choices! (I mean, it's interactive fiction, of course there are choices.)
• Metatextuality.
• Almost 9,500 words of text!

Content notes:

• Some decisions lead to major character death.

Other Notes:

• The Hints Booklet contains notes on how to avoid the few permanent death situations and a complete walkthrough to get to the ending fastest.
• Because of the way HTML5/Twine games get processed on itch.io, running it through the website is sadly not mobile-friendly at the moment. One day I'll figure out how to get that working properly! The HTML file you can download, however, should work fine on all screens.