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The Specter's Desire

97% positive of 47 Steam reviews

Released: 2024
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Themisian.

About the game

This year's Desire Hierarchy has begun. The stakes are now deadly. Hop into The Specter's Desire, a Visual Novel in which you play against the city's top talents to save your parents. Includes puzzling gameplay that has you tearing down arguments, hatching schemes, and revealing the truth!

Tagged by players

Dark Comedy
Card Game
Choose Your Own Adventure
Interactive Fiction
Text-Based
Detective
Visual Novel
Horror
Choices Matter
Multiple Endings
Thriller
Strategy

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What players say

Recommended
Incredibly ambitious, especially for what I assume is a mostly solo project. I just finished this today and am still shook from the climax. If you're the type of degen who craves Liar's Game or Kaiji or death game type content, this is a must-play. The protagonist plays out literally dozens of those scenarios (possibly 50+), and they are all very well thought-out and intricately design. There is also a huge cast of…
108 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Recommended
What a crazy game. Themisian's third effort, it really feels like they went all out for this one. The game is longer, the story is more complex, the minigames are off the charts. Above all I have to applaud the sheer ambition of this game - it must have been a hell of a project for a small dev. I really enjoyed the first act, and in particular its finale - the dawning realisation as you slowly create the map of…
64 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
EDIT, post-completion: Changed to negative. Too many of the puzzles require too diverse of a skill set or assume the user isn't colorblind, and of course the author put in another save-bricking trap alongside tricking the user into saving a game with hotkeys that had loaded the game previously. On top of that, they apparently think you should re-solve most of the puzzles in the game to be permitted to see post-game…
72 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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