Halcyon Pier · a murder-mystery visual novel

Fading
Fortunes

Every morning at nine, Madame Verity, the pier's old fortune machine, prints two names. By midnight, the card comes true. You have five days, a phone, and a toolbag. The ink is already fading.

MADAME VERITY · 9:00 A.M.TONIGHT AT 11:40, BY THE WATER, YOU WILL DIE.
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The last week of the season

Five days. Five cards.

Halcyon Pier is closing for good. The rides are rusting, the lights are failing, and you are the electrician hired to keep it running for one last week.

Then the fortune machine that hasn't worked in eleven months starts printing cards. Two names, a time and a place. The paper is warm. The ink fades in twenty minutes.

Photograph the card, record the room, or trust your memory. Question everyone. Catch the lie. And before midnight, put the night back together, minute by minute.

Madame Verity, a cracked automaton in a glass booth, printing two cards into a brass tray
How you play

Record it, or lose it

Cards that fade

Every card vanishes in twenty minutes. You get one action: a photo, a recording, or nothing at all. Choose what you keep.

Your phone is the case file

Replay voice memos, reread your notes, and present the line that proves someone's lying to their face.

Reconstruct the night

At the end of each day, walk back through the evidence and answer for every minute. Get it wrong and the room tells you.

Hands-on repairs

You're the pier's electrician. Rewire a contactor, restore a tripped board by torchlight, crank a stalled generator in a gale.

Fully voiced

Every line is spoken, by a cast of pier regulars who all have something to hide. Play as Eli or Mia.

Plays your way

Save anywhere, rewind to any choice, skip what you've read, play with a controller, and choose how the most violent scenes are shown.

On the pier

Screenshots

Madame Verity's face behind glass, her eyes glowing amber
Madame Verity wakes
Wendell, the sweet-maker, in his pink taffy shop
Ash's Saltwater Taffy
June sitting on an arcade cabinet, counting coins
The arcade
Priya in the Galley diner, the sea through the window
The Galley
The wiring minigame: coloured cables run across an old contactor board
Fix the taffy puller
Madame Verity's booth at night
The fortune booth
Fact sheet

At a glance

Genre
Murder-mystery visual novel with deduction and repair puzzles
Platforms
PC (Steam), iPhone and iPad, and Android. Touch, mouse or controller.
Length
Five chapters, one for each day of the last week of the season
Voice
Fully voiced in English
Rating
Mature
How it's made
Story and design written with AI assistance and directed by the creator. Art, voices and cutscenes are made with generative AI. Sound and music are synthesised in code, so the whole game is safe to stream.
Content warning. Fading Fortunes contains graphic violence and gore, and scenes some players may find disturbing. The game asks how you'd like the most violent scenes shown, and you can change it at any time.