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Dry Drowning

Dry Drowning is a psychological investigative visual novel set in a futuristic dystopian city. Follow the story of Mordred Foley, unscrupulous private detective haunted by his dark past, and look into a series of macabre serial killings inspired by Greek mythology.

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Developer
Studio V, VLG
Publisher
Leonardo Interactive, WhisperGames
Release
August 2, 2019
7 years and 2 days ago
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Very Positive517 reviews80.9%

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About the Game



Dry Drowning is an investigative thriller-oriented visual novel set in the futuristic dystopian universe of Nova Polemos.

A shady socio-political situation dragging everything down to the abyss, a serial killer drawing strength from this darkness, a tormented detective and his assistant craving for redemption.

Dry Drowning challenges the player to find the truth, going through ambiguous characters, riddles, clues and unexpected events, while telling an extremely compelling and mature story.

Game Features


  • Choices really matter: Players choices can lead to an always different story, with more than 150 story branches and 3 completely different endings

  • Heavy moral choices: Dramatically change the way you live the game, affecting background politics, technology, environment, NPC encounters, who lives and who dies

  • High replayability: More than 20 hours gameplay to see everything about

  • Time travel: Explore the detective's flashbacks and investigate cases from the past to help you solve new ones

  • Psychological interrogations: Break the masks and uncover the truth with the Living Nightmares system

  • Original soundtrack: dynamic OST with more than 50 audio tracks, some of which live recorded, for more than 2 hours of music

Get ready to dive into darkness...

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