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What We Carry

What We Carry is a dark romance visual novel where you wake inside a locked compound and must build trust, survive deadly trials, and uncover the truth behind the experiment before love becomes your greatest weakness.

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Stokes the Fire Studio
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About the Game

What We Carry is a dark romance visual novel where love, trust, and survival are all part of the same experiment.

You wake inside a locked compound with a group of strangers, each carrying secrets they would rather keep buried. The rules are unclear, the rooms are dangerous, and every choice pushes you closer to someone or closer to the truth.

Build relationships, investigate strange rooms, survive deadly trials, and decide who is worth trusting when affection can become a weakness. Each route reveals new sides of the cast, new pieces of the compound’s mystery, and new ways your choices can change the outcome. Endings are carried over in your next playthrough and have an impact on the story.

Will you find love, expose the truth, or become another person the experiment breaks?

Features:

  • Choice driven visual novel gameplay

  • Dark romance routes with multiple characters

  • 2D Exploration of rooms in the compound

  • Death game mystery and psychological horror elements

  • Relationship choices that affect trust, conflict, and outcomes

  • Investigation scenes with clickable rooms and evidence

  • A long story!

  • Branching routes, bad endings, and story consequences - Play all endings to get a bonus ending!

  • A diverse cast with secrets, romance, and betrayal

  • Sprites feature different types of clothing depending on occasion. Clothing also has blood sprites

  • 14 combined Puzzles / Minigames

  • Play as Nia or Malik, with route dialogue shaped around your protagonist choice

What We Carry is for players who enjoy emotional visual novels, dangerous romance, locked-room mysteries, and story-heavy games where every choice has weight.

Meet Our Female and Male Protagonist!

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