As always, you're asking the good questions. Welcome to my pseudo-presskit/introduction to my biggest project yet -- the culmination of the years of writing and worldbuilding: All the Promised Burn!

"What is All The Promised Burn?"

All the Promised Burn: An Yssaia Game is a narrative-focused, hand-drawn adventure. Navigate an assassin through her delicate, brutal world after the War annexed her homeland. Delve deep into the geopolitics of magic, your past trauma, and the Abyss beneath the world.

Developer: Amaiguri

Genres: Exploration, Adventure, Visual Novel, some Point-and-Click elements, some Collect-a-thon elements

Platform: PC

Unofficial Age Rating: 18+

Features

• Coil through an epic of 10 POV characters and trip on every wound in their hearts
• Indulge in a full suite of fantasy disabilities, armistice logistics, & tearful melt-downs
• Gather 50+ books, recipes, creatures, and epistolaries for your lore archive
• Riff through 8 fully Constructed Languages
• Unravel mysteries from across the selvages of this little open world

Additional Features

• Sin-eating
• Murdered lovers
• Fictional Theatre Drama
• Diversity
• Demons
• Angst

Please Note: This game contains references to many types of abusive relationships, between family members, lovers, and politicians and their people. It also contains strong language, some sexual references, violence, body horror, and gore.

Narrative Summary

In a dark, whimsical 1880s-inspired fantasy world -- where Arthurian-age mythologies meet the geopolitics of the World Wars --, an orphan-turned-assassin, Arlasaire, is left without the man that was her world (her commanding officer? Her lover? Her only family?) after her nation's defeat. In her grief, she revisits the ruins they used to explore together. But in her nation's Hour of Greatest Need, the prophecized Emperor returns to life with his magic sword and promises to defeat their Southern invaders. 

Arlasaire, however, is skeptical: This Emperor is hailed as "a hero" -- with songs and glory and chivalry -- and she is quickly being turned into a figurehead as well. But Arlasaire just watched a whole city get nuked with magic. In this newly modern age, what does it actually mean to be "a hero?" And what does her life even mean, when all the people she loved are gone?

Gameplay Description

As the player, you will navigate through this tiny open world to unravel its mysteries and to collect its books, creatures, plants, foods, and more. Like an archeologist might sift through an ancient ruin, you will dig into the layers of Yssaia's histories and help its people rebuild after the war: A family of academics need to find each other again. The demons of a bunny-town forgot their identities. A desert storytelling group struggles with the logistics of collaborative storytelling. The more you know and understand the world, the easier it is to bring these people the items and ideas they need.

Though a large portion of the game will be dedicated to immersion in the game's narrative, these knowledge-based exploration elements will set the pacing for the game's story. Imagine it like a JRPG but streamlined to just the narrative and immersive elements!

About the Developer

Amaiguri is "solo-dev" who, after being laid off from her narrative design job, is now chasing the indie dev dream. As she says on her YouTube Channel, "I'm a professional narrative designer and game writer but in my spare time... I also make Things TM -- I love storytelling, I do art, I make Conlangs, etc. Sometimes, I even cook my fantasy foods and taste them in real life!" On said YouTube channel, she makes monthly videos about fantasy worldbuilding -- whether tutorializing how to create deeply immersive worlds or deep-diving into the logistics of fantasy food.

Despite more-or-less doing everything herself, Amaiguri regularly collaborates with beta readers, sensitivity consultants, musicians, and voice actors -- whose contributions are labelled on their specific elements -- as well as her rabbits. Her rabbits are excellent.

And now, here are your important links for the game:

• Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3727600/All_the_Promised_Burn__An_Yssaia_Game/
• Itch.io: https://amaiguri.itch.io/allthepromisedburn
• My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Amaiguri
• My Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/amaiguri.bsky.social
• My Other Socials: https://linktr.ee/Amaiguri
  
• Or email me at: amaiguriofficial[at]gmail.com