Mesmalie
Train your Magick at a witches' coven, pick your words carefully and steer a story that shifts from silly to bittersweet toward multiple endings.
99% of 1,543 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$8.99
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89% of 1,755 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Mesmalie
An occult visual novel about losing control. Your Magick sets your room on fire, so you answer a newspaper ad and end up at a witches' coven in the middle of nowhere, where Mesmer takes you in. Point and click your way through training, branching dialogue and plenty of secrets, in a story that starts silly and turns bittersweet.
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Three old friends, one blazing villa in Southern Italy, two lost years to make up for. Pick how Claudio, Andrea and Mida spend their days, then follow them through beautiful, brutal hallucinations as friendship curdles into obsession and revenge. Short, loud, sad and very hard to forget.
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The Golden Rose: Book One
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