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Love & Fool's Gold

A choice-driven romance-mystery visual novel set in the Wild West. Choose your partner and investigate the town's secrets to uncover the Eldritchian horror that plagues Cortez Creek.

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Games with DNA
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About the Game

Love & Fool's Gold is a Wild West romance-mystery narrative game, with an Eldritchian horror twist. 

This is so much more than a cowboy dating sim. This is a story of love, secrets, and redemption.

CORTEZ CREEK, 1871

You play as a nomadic bounty hunter, arriving in the town of Cortez Creek to chase a bounty, only to quickly discover that not everything is as it seems.

After meeting a cast of enigmatic characters, you're given a choice of who to partner up with to uncover the dark Eldritchian mystery that plagues this ill-fated town. But who do you choose? The Cowboy, the Bounty Hunter, or the Mysterious Outlaw? What does this mean for the desperate citizens of Cortez Creek? And is romance - or death - in the cards?

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SEXY

Each of the three partners is battling their own personal demons. Depending on your choices, you have the ability to aid their healing, or deepen their suffering.

Just be careful with whom you can trust. 

FEATURES

  • Classic 2D Visual Novel design with text-based dialogue and narrative

  • Beautiful hand-drawn character and background art, with art cutscenes for key narrative points

  • Multiple branching pathways with different endings

  • Voiceovers for each of the characters

  • Experience unique story arcs and endings with each romanceable character

  • Different sides of the story revealed depending on who you partner up with

  • Replays with different partners are encouraged to uncover the full story

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