Even Lovers Drown
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
In the thoroughly modern era of the 1920s, one meets all sorts of characters while traveling the vaudeville circuit. Lark (gender selectable) has seen acts enough—and cons enough—to place very little stock in either magic or fairytales.
That is, until two beings straight from myth turn Lark's world topsy-turvy. Entangled in a selkie's daring heist and stuck ferrying a stolen siren prince back to sea, the question is no longer whether magic exists—but whether Lark can survive without it.
Because where magic is not a mere act, forces beyond reckoning loom in the shadows, and the monsters of old are neither phony, nor dead: rather, they are much closer—and much more dangerous!—than Lark has ever dared to imagine them.
- 45k Words (~3 Hours of Playtime)
- 2 Love Interests (One Male, One Female)
- 2 Individual and 1 Polyamorous Route
- Pronoun Selection (she/her, he/him, they/them)
- Multiple Endings
- Custom Musical Soundtrack
- CG Gallery (coming soon!)
FlowersforJoy + GreyEnwright - Project Leads
B.L. McDarragh - Creative Director + Lead Writer
Dillaya Art - Character Design + Sprite Art
Arghbulous - CG Artist
Remnantation - Silhouette Artist
Rananculus - Background Artist
October - Composer
Siyokoy - GUI Artist
Kay - Programming
Additional Tools + Assets:
Motion Sells Emotion by EdgesSystem
Ren'py Wave Shader by Wattson
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- New Game Release - Even Lovers Drown6 days ago
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really lovely story. ate up the writing and the dialogue in particular. really swept me up in the world building and took me on a journey. (:
Thank you so much!! ❤️ The characters really hijacked the story during scripting, because they were just so, so much fun to write--I'm very happy to hear you enjoyed the result!
The game is truly wonderful, thank you so much for it!
So glad you enjoyed playing it! Thank you! ❤️
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Mermaids? I love mermaids! Such a rare treat in the interactive fiction genre... thank you :>
Gotta love the fish-folk! (Melusine: ...and selkies, too--isn't that right, little bird?)
I hope you enjoy the story as much as we enjoyed working on it! 🫧
Absolutely right :>
I had a busy few days and only now finished reading, and figured I'll let you know that this is such a lovely story with amazing music, artstyle and writing! I fell in love with Syl and Melusine both 💙
And I'm sooo obsessed with tales about merfolk, I hunt them (the tales, not merfolk) with zeal. And I gotta say - this vn is one of the best I've seen.
Thank you!! ❤️ That means quite a lot--I'm so glad you enjoyed it, and will pass it along to the team!
I got so attached so fast to all of these characters! Thank you for the lovely story
Thank you so much for playing, and for the kind words! ❤️