Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II

Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II is a title featured at IndieCade 2017.

About Herald: An Interactive Period Drama - Book I & II
Herald: An Interactive Period Drama – Book I & II are the firs two episodes in the Herald series of episodic adventure games. The game is a mix between a point-and-click adventure game and a visual novel. The game is currently available for PC, Mac and Linux and sold through Steam, GoG and Humble Store.

This choice-driven interactive period drama takes place in history, but has a strong message concerning our modern-day social interactions.

Herald tells the story of Devan Rensburg, a man of mixed heritage who was born in the eastern colonies of a fictional colonial empire in the 19th century. Adopted and raised in the wealthy western capital of this so-called ‘Protectorate’, Devan develops an interest in finding out where he comes from, so he boards a clipper ship to book passage to his country of birth.

As Devan it is your job to keep the peace among the crew and passengers by resolving their daily squabbles. Set during a time of widespread inequality and injustice, you are challenged to uncover a great mystery that surrounds the Herald's perilous voyage.

Over the course of his three month journey Devan is cast in the middle of a multi-ethnic cross-section of Protectorate society and has to navigate his way through burgeoning tensions between ethnicities, classes and genders that will not only determine the fate of the ship, but also that of the empire itself.

By making difficult moral choices that alter the course of the storyline, Herald sets out to make players feel the sting of oppression and the weight of living in a society divided by race, class and culture.

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