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Sinking The Boats

It's a choice-oriented story game. Play as a group of underground workers who fight in the dark, and stage a treacherous spy war story in Nanjing during World War II. How will you respond to identity crises, betrayals, and collapsed beliefs? Loyalty or betrayal, abandon others or be abandoned...

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Developer
孟夏Mengxia
Publisher
糕薯科技
Release
September 2, 2025
334 days ago
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Very Positive63 reviews96.8%

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About the Game

It is a narrative-driven game that offers players choices and incorporates puzzle-solving elements, while also featuring a rich and engaging plot branches.

The story setting:

In April 1943, the Japanese Eleventh Army gathered a large number of troops, intending to eliminate the main forces of the defenders of the 6th Theater of China, open up the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and seize the ship materials of the Chinese army. Around the war situation in the 6th Theater, the forces of all sides strategize, fight openly and secretly, and launch a fierce and bloody competition.

Unexpectedly, Nanjing, this faraway city becomes the key to victory in this battle. And our story begins here...
Identity crisis, Mystery Visitor, Loyalty and betrayal, abandonment or abandonment...

Play as a group of underground workers fighting in the dark and make some important decisions. These choices may affect not only yourself, but also the lives of others.

BUT please remember that the victory always needs price.

Bright spots:

In this game, players will complete the entire story through different chapters and different characters' perspectives. Even if a character dies or is imprisoned due to your choices, the game will not end. The world does not stop by anybody, even the protagonist of this story. There will be others who will continue to fight for the same goal.

Main elements of the game:

Plot direction, spy war, explore, forties of the last century, great heroine, love elements but low proportion, pixel style...

Solemnly declare:

This story is purely fictional, a story created in a historical context, not a complete historical fact.

The story is born out of a novel written a few years ago, as a game script, the main plot has been completed, the branch plot needs to be improved, and now it is mainly after the art materials are in place, the progress will be accelerated.
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